Patuakhali District
district in Bangladesh's Barisal Division
Patuakhali District (Bengali: পটুয়াখালী জেলা, romanized: Pôṭuakhali jela) is a district in south-central Bangladesh in Barisal Division. This district is the main entrance for the beach of Kuakata.
History
The early history of Patuakhali is little known. In medieval times, the northern part of the district was part of the Chandradwip Kingdom, also called Bakla. The kingdom had its capital at Kachua in present Bauphal Upazila. Beginning in the middle 16th century, the kingdom began facing attacks from Portuguese and Magh pirates, so the kings shifted to Madhabpasha in present Barishal district. After the conquest of Bakla, Akbar's administrator Todarmal sent the quanungo Jimmak Khan to survey the region. He split up the still mainly forested southern part of Barisal as Bazuhadba, and later the region was split up into three parganas: Salimbada, Bajuk Umedpur and Uranpur. This southern part of Barisal region, which was still largely uninhabited, was colonized by Muslim pirs who introduced the local population to settled agriculture and spread Islamic beliefs among the local population, leading to the overwhelming majority developing an Islamic identity by the 19th century. In the 18th century, Rakhines fleeing the Burmese invasion of Arakan came to Bengal, with many settling on the deltaic islands especially in the southern upazilas of present Patuakhali.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Patuakhali District” as district in Bangladesh's Barisal Division. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as district in Bangladesh's Barisal Division. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1429761. VIAF identifies the subject as 138436393. The Library of Congress control number is n85072159. Authority coordinates are 22.354, 90.318. 2 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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