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Sonargaon
Dhaka, BangladeshAbout
Sonargaon was a historic administrative, commercial and maritime center in Bengal. Situated at the center of the Ganges delta , near the old course of the Brahmaputra River , it was the seat of the medieval Muslim rulers and governors of eastern Bengal. Sonargaon was described by numerous historic travelers, including Ibn Battuta , Ma Huan, Niccolò de' Conti and Ralph Fitch , as a thriving center of trade and commerce on the silk route . It served as the capital of Sultan Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah , Isa Khan and the Baro-Bhuyan Confederacy .
