Sonargaon Bengali: Pronounced as Show-naar-gaa; meaning Golden Hamlet is a historic city in central Bangladesh. It is one of the old capitals of the historic region of Bengal and was an administrative center of eastern Bengal. It was also a port and trading center. About the Sounagoura, mentioned by Claudius Ptolemy AD 100 ââ¬â 170 c. was a Greek geographer, wrote; the Sounagoura may have been located near in the Wari-Bateshwar ruins]], early / ancient history of the Sonargon not revealed yet, research is going on. During British colonial rule, merchants built many Indo-Saracenic townhouses in the Panam neighborhood. During 17th and 18th centuries the Sonargaon was central to the muslin trade in Bengal.
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