History of Feni District

Feni is also a district of Chittagong Division and it is located in the south-eastern part of this area. It is at the position of nine from the viewpoint of most populous districts lists in the division as it has an estimated population of 1,437,371.

Mar 23, 2021
 


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Feni is also a district of Chittagong Division and it is located in the south-eastern part of this area. It is at the position of nine from the viewpoint of most populous districts lists in the division as it has an estimated population of 1,437,371. The district was established in 1984. The district consists of two municipalities, six Upazilas, 45 union parishads, 540 Mouzas, 27 wards, 51 mahallas, and 570 villages. Feni is the oldest municipality in this region that was established in 1958. It has Noakhali and Chittagong Districts at the south, Comilla District and Tripura at the north, Noakhali District at the west, and Tripura State of India at the east.

History

In old times, the area was at the port of the sea but at the north-east side, there were hilly regions. Wise people think of Feni as an ancient terrain of greater Noakhali at the east. There are ruins of historical rocky-idol at Shilua village of Chagolnaiya Upazila. For having this rocky idol, the place has been regarded as Shilua or Shilla. According to Dr, Ahamed Sharif, in ancient times everything in Noakhali apart from the Feni region, were lower marshlands. At that time, Valua ( ancient name of Nokjal and Jugudiya( a place in the sea) were looked like islands.


At the bank of the river Feni, beside Raghunandon hill, there was a capital of a courageous Bengali person named Shamsh Gazi in the middle of the eighteenth century. He also acquired Rousonabad and Tripura's kingdom after the war. He named a part of the Champak area as Jogonnath Sonapur. To say about the naming history of this place it is thought that according to river Feni the district was named after. In the writings of middle-aged poets, there is found the artistic description of a river, and the word "Foni" was used more and more. That's why it is thought that from the word " Foni" the district was named. During the liberation war, on 26th March, two great leaders of this region named Khaza Ahamed and Malek Saheb decided to give training to the youth and other people who wanted to take part in the war. The District's field of PTIR was selected to give the training. After that, there took place some bloody battles between Pakistani armies and the general people of Feni at the border of the district. Among the battles, Shuvopur and Biloniya battles are noteworthy bloody battles that can not be forgotten. Awami League leaders and organizers named Abdul Malek and Khaza Ahamed also took part in the war after taking training from Deradun and Chottakhola. On 6th December, the district became free from the enemies.

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Writer: Sonjoy Kumer


 References: bn.m.wikipedia.org, thehistoryofbangladesh.blogspot.com


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