Portuguese settlement in Chittagong
Grand Harbor of Bengal | |||||||||||
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| 1528–1666 | |||||||||||
Portuguese Chittagong (at top right corner) with other Portuguese settlements in India | |||||||||||
| Status | Trading post | ||||||||||
| Capital | Firingi Bunder | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Portuguese, Bengali | ||||||||||
| King of Portugal | |||||||||||
• 1528–1557 | John III (first) | ||||||||||
• 1656–1666 | Afonso VI (last) | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Imperialism | ||||||||||
• Permission from the Bengal Sultanate | 1528 | ||||||||||
| 1666 | |||||||||||
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Chittagong, the second largest city and main port of Bangladesh, was home to a thriving trading post of the Portuguese Empire in the East in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Portuguese first arrived in Chittagong around 1528, and left in 1666 after the Mughal conquest. It was the first European colonial enclave in the historic region of Bengal.