Monday 15 May 2017

Hoogli or Hugli West Bengal

Hooghly region is one of the areas of the condition of West Bengal in India. It can on the other hand be spelt Hoogli or Hugli. The area is named after the Hooghly River. 

The locale of Hooghly got its name from the town of Hooghly on the west bank of the Hooghly River around 40 km north of Kolkata. This town was a stream port in the fifteenth century. The region has a large number of years of rich legacy as the considerable Bengali kingdom of Bhurshut. 

The principal European to achieve this zone was the Portuguese mariner Vasco-Da-Gama. In 1536 Portuguese merchants got an allow from Sultan Mahmud Shah to exchange this region. In those days the Hooghly River was the principle course for transportation and Hooghly filled in as a great exchanging port.

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