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Dhaka
The City
Star Mosque, found in Dhaka.
Dhaka has an area of 815.85 sq.km.(approx). Better known as the "city of mosques". In the sense that it was predominantly was a city of the Mughals. Hundred years of their vigorous rule successive Governors and princely Viceroys who ruled the province, adorned it with many noble monuments in the shape of magnificent palaces, mosques, tombs, fortifications and Katras' often surrounded with beautifully laid out gardens and pavilions. Among these, few have survived the ravages of time, aggressive tropical climate of the land and vandalism in the hands of man.
Today as the capital of Bangladesh, where the seat of the government resides, the city still exudes the exotic beauty of the ornamental structures created by skilled craftmens of long time ago.
Dhaka Attractions
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