Eastern Bengal

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historical region

Eastern Bengal was a historical region in the eastern part of the Bengal area of the Indian subcontinent, largely corresponding to present-day Bangladesh and parts of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
East Bengal 14
eastern Bengal 5

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historical region ⓘ
borderedBy Assam NERFINISHED ⓘ
Bay of Bengal NERFINISHED ⓘ
Bihar (historical context) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tripura NERFINISHED ⓘ
climate tropical monsoon ⓘ
colonialPower British Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
correspondsTo present-day Bangladesh ⓘ
economyHistoricallyBasedOn jute cultivation ⓘ
rice cultivation ⓘ
ethnolinguisticGroup Bengalis NERFINISHED ⓘ
hadMajorityLanguage Bengali ⓘ
hadMajorityReligion Islam (late 19th–20th century) ⓘ
hadMajorPort Chittagong NERFINISHED ⓘ
hadMajorRiver Jamuna River NERFINISHED ⓘ
Meghna River NERFINISHED ⓘ
Padma River NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalLanguage Middle Bengali (earlier periods) ⓘ
historicalPeriod British India era ⓘ
pre-partition India ⓘ
historicalRegionOf Bengal NERFINISHED ⓘ
includedCity Chittagong NERFINISHED ⓘ
Dhaka NERFINISHED ⓘ
includedRegion Mymensingh NERFINISHED ⓘ
Rajshahi (eastern parts in some periods) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sylhet NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river system NERFINISHED ⓘ
deltaic landscape ⓘ
fertile alluvial plains ⓘ
locatedIn Indian subcontinent NERFINISHED ⓘ
South Asia ⓘ
eastern part of Bengal ⓘ
modernEquivalentEntity Bangladesh NERFINISHED ⓘ
eastern districts of West Bengal, India NERFINISHED ⓘ
partiallyCorrespondsTo Indian state of West Bengal ⓘ
partOf Bengal region NERFINISHED ⓘ
regionType cultural region ⓘ
geographical region ⓘ
scriptUsed Bengali script NERFINISHED ⓘ
successorTerritory East Bengal (province of Pakistan) NERFINISHED ⓘ
East Pakistan NERFINISHED ⓘ
People's Republic of Bangladesh NERFINISHED ⓘ
wasCulturallyPartOf Bengal NERFINISHED ⓘ
wasDividedFrom Western Bengal NERFINISHED ⓘ
wasInfluencedBy Buddhist heritage ⓘ
Hindu culture ⓘ
Islamic culture ⓘ
wasPartOf Bengal Presidency (British India) NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (20)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

East Bengal and Assam → contains → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
Noakhali → historicalProvince → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: East Bengal
Governor-General’s House, Dhaka → locatedIn → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: East Bengal
Language Movement of 1952 → location → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: East Bengal
Jabbar → country → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: East Bengal
Barkat → country → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: East Bengal
Rafiq → country → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: East Bengal
Humayun Ahmed → placeOfBirth → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: East Bengal
Shafiur Rahman → placeOfCitizenship → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: East Bengal
Shafiur Rahman → placeOfDeath → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: East Bengal
Shafiur Rahman → activeIn → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: East Bengal
Vijaya Sena → expandedRuleOver → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: eastern Bengal
Ballala Sena → expandedRuleOver → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: eastern Bengal
Vanga → locatedIn → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: eastern Bengal
Lakshmana Sena → laterSeatOfPower → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: eastern Bengal
Dominion of Pakistan → includesTerritory → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: East Bengal
Noakhali riots → region → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: eastern Bengal
Boundary Commissions for Punjab and Bengal → appliesToJurisdiction → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: East Bengal
Mohammad Ali of Bogra → regionRepresented → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
this entity surface form: East Bengal
declaration of independence of Bangladesh → involvesRegion → Eastern Bengal ⓘ
subject surface form: Declaration of Independence of Bangladesh
this entity surface form: East Bengal