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unusual facts about Sunamganj



Government Jubilee High School

It is situated in the middle of Sunamganj township on the bank of the river where Prassana had his house which was absorbed by the Surma.

Govindaganj

Govindaganj is a market town within the upazila of Chhatak, in the District of Sunamganj, Sylhet Division, Bangladesh.

The market town lies on the banks of the rivers, Dahuka and Surma and it is situated in a strategically important area for development as it is lies on the junction of 2 major roads leading to towns of, Sylhet, Sunamganj and Chhatak.

Hason Raja

At the age of seven, his father started living in Rampasha of Lokkishiri, 33 miles away from Sunamganj, for the most of part of the year.

Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah

His authority stretched to eastern Bengal Moazzamabad (present-day Sunamganj) and south-eastern Bengal (present-day Chittagong).

Khola Gaon

Khola Gaon is a medium sized village, in the Upazila of Chhatak, in the district of Sunamganj in the division of Sylhet, Bangladesh

Sunamganj District

After the conquest of Sylhet(Gowrh Kingdom) in 1303 by Muslims under the spiritual guidance of Hazrat Shah Jalal, Hazrat Shah Kamal Qahafan brought the entire Kingdom of 'Larh' (La'urh) under his control with aid of his twelve disciples and his second son, Shah Muazzamuddin, administered the entire district from Shaharpara and he maintained a second sub-administration office at Nizgaon (near present-day Shologhar in Sunamganj town, which was running by one of his descendants.

Sunamganj is renowned for bards and folk music; mystic poet Hason Raja (1854CE-1922CE), Saifa Banu (1860-1926), Diwan Moshin Raja, Syed Shahnoor, Radharaman Dutta, Radhamadhav Dutta, Doorbin Shah, Shah Abdul Karim, Muniruzzaman Munir, Nurul Ghani, Dilly Meah, Qari Amiruddin and many more have hailed from this area.


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