Khulna Bangladesh

Khulna

(Bengali: খুলনা ) is the third-biggest city of Bangladesh.[4] it is the administrative seat of Khulna District and Khulna division. As of the 2011 census, the town has a populace of 663,342.[5]

Khulna is an old river port placed on the Rupsha River. it is an important hub of Bangladeshi industry and hosts many national organizations. it is served by way of Port of Mongla, the second largest seaport within the usa. it is also one of the  most important naval command centres of the Bangladesh military. military base BNS Titumir is positioned within the town.

A colonial steamboat provider, inclusive of the fleet Tern, Osrich and Lepcha, keeps to operate on the river course to the metropolis. it is seemed as the gateway to the Sundarbans, the world's biggest tidal woodland and domestic of the Bengal tiger. Khulna is also situated north of the historical Mosque town of Bagerhat, a UNESCO global historical past site

History

Khulna was a part of the historical kingdoms of Vanga or Samatata. inside the twelfth century, it got here beneath the Sena dynasty at some point of the reign of Ballal Sena and fashioned part of the Bagri department of Bengal. The previous name of this area was Jalalabad.

in the course of the 14th century, Shamsuddin Firoz Shah have become the primary Muslim ruler to reach within the town. The Muslim settlements inside the metropolis improved during the time of Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah. finally, many mosques and shrines began to be installed. in the fifteenth century, a Muslim saint named Khan Jahan Ali obtained a jagir (fiefdom) comprising a massive part of the extra Khulna department from the king of Gauḍa. Later he commenced to exercising full rights of sovereignty and persevered to achieve this till his death in 1459.[8]

After the loss of life of Khan Jahan Ali, the metropolis again have become a part of the Sultanate of Bengal. throughout the reign of Daud Khan Karraniin the 16th century, Vikramaditya, one of the leader ministers of the ruler, obtained a furnish in the southern Bengal which include Khulna while the ruler was busy combating the Mughals. He then mounted a sovereign state, having the capital at Iswaripur currently inJessore District. Vikramaditya was succeeded by means of his son Pratapaditya who received preeminence over the Baro-Bhuyans, retaining robust ownership of Southern Bengal. He became subsequently defeated by using guy Singh I, a Hindu preferred of the Mughal emperor Akbar, in 1611 advert.[9]

Khulna remained beneath the rule of self reliant nawabs (rulers) of Bengal till 1793, when the British East India corporation abolished Nizamat (local rule) and took manipulate of the town. In 1842, the city became a part of Khulna subdivision of Jessore District. In 1882, it became the headquarters of Khulna District, comprising the then Khulna and Bagerhat subdivisions of Jessore district, Satkhira subdivision of 24 Parganas district and the Sundarbans.[9]

Khulna changed into declared as a Pouroshava / Municipal council in 1884 and promoted to a Municipal agency in 1984 on the platinum jubilee of Khulna Pouroshava.

In 1990 Khulna has been declared as a metropolis corporation.