Longest Sea Beach,Cox's Bazar

History of  Cox's Bazar ©

Cox's Bazar Town was comprised in 1869, in the end turning into a B-grade district in 1989. Situated along the Bay of Bengal in South Eastern Bangladesh, Cox's Bazar Town is a wellbeing resort. Be that as it may, it is celebrated generally for its long common sandy shoreline. The region covers a region of 6.85 km2 (2.64 sq mi) with 27 mahallas and 9 wards and has a populace of 51,918. Cox's Bazar is associated by street and air with Chittagong.

The more prominent Chattagram zone, including Cox's Bazar, was under the standard of Arakan 1666 AD . When the Mughal Prince Shah Shuja was going through the bumpy territory of the present-day Cox's Bazar on his approach to Arakan, he was pulled in to its grand and spellbinding excellence. He instructed his powers to camp there. His entourage of one thousand palanquins ceased there for quite a while. A spot named Dulahazara, signifying "one thousand palanquins," still exists in the region. After the Mughals, the spot went under the control of the Tipras and the Arakanese, trailed by the Portuguese and afterward the British.

The name Cox's Bazar began from the name of a British East India Company officer, Captain Hiram Cox, who was named as the Superintendent of Palonki (the present Cox's Bazar) station. He succeeded Warren Hastings, who turned into the Governor of Bengal following the British East India Company Act in 1773. The Captain restored numerous evacuees in the zone, yet passed on in 1799 preceding he could complete his work. To celebrate him, a market was set up and named after him, called Cox's Bazar. Cox's Bazar at that point was first settled in 1854 and turned into a district in 1869.

After the Sepoy Mutiny (Indian Rebellion of 1857) in 1857, the British East India Company was very condemned and addressed on compassionate grounds, uniquely for its opium exchange imposing business model over the Indian Sub-Continent. In any case, after its disintegration on 1 January 1874, the majority of the organization's benefits including its Armed Forces were obtained by the British Crown. After this noteworthy takeover, Cox's Bazar was announced an area of the Bengal Province under the British Crown.