Cox Bazar.. Belal550
Introducing The Longest Sea Beach Of
the World
Geographical View
Often termed as the world's longest
beach,Cox's Bazar has yet to become a major tourist destination in Asia.Cox's
Bazar District has an area of 2491.86 square km. It is located at 21°35' N
92°01' E and is bounded by Chittagong District on the north, Bay of Bengal
The town with an area of 6.85 square
km, and bounded by Bakkhali River on the north and East, Bay of Bengal in the
West, and Jhilwanj Union in the south.
History of Cox's Bazar
He greater Chittagong breadth including Cox's
Bazar was beneath the aphorism of Arakan Kings from the aboriginal 9th aeon
until its acquisition by the Mughals in 1666 AD.When the Mughal Prince Shah
Shuja was casual through the arresting breadth of the present day Cox's Bazar
on his way to Arakan, he was admiring to the breathtaking and arresting
adorableness of the place. He allowable his armament to affected there. His
aggregation of one thousand palanquins chock-full there for some time.A abode
called Dulahazara, acceptation "one thousand palanquins," still
exists in the area. Afterwards the Mughals, the abode came beneath the
ascendancy of the Tipras and the Arakanese,followed by the Portuguese and again
the British.The name Cox's Bazar originated from the name of a British East
India Company officer, Captain Hiram Cox who was appointed as the
Superintendent of Palonki(today's Cox's Bazar) beginning afterwards Warren
Hastings became the Governor of Bengal afterward the British East India Company
Act in 1773.Captain Cox was abnormally mobilised to accord with a aeon
continued battle amid Arakan refugees & bounded Rakhains at Palonki. The
Captain fabricated cogent progress in rehabilitation of refugees in the area,
but had died (in 1799) afore he could accomplishment his work. To admire his
role in rehabilitation plan a market / exchange was accustomed and was called
afterwards him as Cox's Bazar (market of Cox). Cox's Bazar than was aboriginal
accustomed in 1854 and a city was constituted in 1869. After the Sepoy Mutiny
(Indian Rebellion of 1857) in 1857, the British East India Company was awful
criticised and questioned on altruistic grounds, specially for its Opium barter
cartel over the
Indian Sub-Continent. However, afterwards its dissolution on 1
January 1874, all of the company's assets including its Armed Armament were
acquired by the British Crown. Afterwards this celebrated yield over, Cox's Bazar
was declared a commune of the Bengal Province beneath the British Crown. After
the end of British aphorism in 1947, Cox's Bazar remained as a allotment of
East Pakistan. Captain Advocate Fazlul Karim, the aboriginal Chairman (after
ability from the British) of Cox's Bazar City accustomed the Tamarisk Forest
forth the bank to draw day-tripper absorption in this boondocks and aswell to
assure the bank from flat waves. He aswell donated abounding of his
father-in-law's and his own acreage for establishing a Public Library and a
Boondocks Hall for the town. He was aggressive to body Cox's Bazar as a
day-tripper atom afterwards seeing beaches of Bombay and Karachi, and one of
the antecedents in developing Cox's Bazar as such.
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