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  2. Newsgroups: soc.culture.african,soc.culture.bangladesh
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!wsu-cs!vela!mkaziz
  4. From: mkaziz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (KHALED AZIZ)
  5. Subject: Re: Origin of the name "Dhaka"
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan24.173308.15217@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
  7. Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
  8. References: <1993Jan23.144307.5765@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <1993Jan23.214038.28144@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
  9. Distribution: usa
  10. Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:33:08 GMT
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  13. In article <1993Jan23.214038.28144@zip.eecs.umich.edu> bhattach@quip.eecs.umich.edu (sayan bhattacharyya) writes:
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  15. >Does anyone know how the name "Dhaka" originated ?
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  17. >-Sayan.
  18.  
  19. I believe "Dhaka" was named after "Dhakeswari" temple.
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  23.      KHALED AZIZ               | "Money talks,
  24. mkaziz@vela.acs.oakland.edu    |  But it can't sing and dance, 
  25. mkaziz@argo.acs.oakland.edu    |  And it can't walk."
  26.                      |                     -NEIL DIAMOND
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