[1] In sixteenth century, some Portuguese traders settled in Dhaka and they used to export Muslin, cotton and silk goods to Europe and Southeast Asia.
[1] From some documents, it can be found that the Portuguese settlement was doing good in Dhaka till the early eighteenth century.
They built a church in Narinda in the site of the present day Christian cemetery, Dhaka in the early seventeenth century.
In 1632, Mughal emperor Shahjahan started to drive out the Portuguese from Bangal.
The place where they made settlement located in present-day Muktarpur–Mirkadim area of Munshiganj is still known as "Firingibazaar".