The struggle for the Bay : the life and times of Sandwip, an almost unknown Portuguese port in the Bay of Bengal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
This article places Sandwip, a lesser known salt trading island and port in the Bay of Bengal within the nexus of global trade and politics in the seventeenth century. Sandwip is now a part of Bangladesh but at the time under review it was successively part of the medieval kingdoms of Bengal, Tripur...
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| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade do Porto
2008-01-01
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| Series: | História - Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto |
| Online Access: | http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/6732.pdf |