Gulshan
Gulshan ( Bengali গুলশান Gulaśān ) is a district ( Thana ) of Dhaka , the capital of Bangladesh . Several embassies and high commissioners are located in this residential area with many restaurants and shops, including the embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany . According to the 2011 census carried out by the statistics office in the Ministry of Planning, the district had 253,050 inhabitants.
history
Gulshan was founded in 1961 as a model city for the upper class and at that time formed a Pourashabha , a municipal body. The neighboring Banani (founded in 1964) and Baridhara were combined with Gulshan to form Gulshan Thana in 1972 . In 1982 the Pourashabha was dissolved and in 1984 Gulshan was incorporated into Dhaka.
On July 1, 2016, a group of Islamist-motivated perpetrators attacked a café and took a double-digit number of people hostage . A total of twenty guests, two police officers and six of the attackers were killed.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics: Community Report: Dhaka Zila ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Ministry of Planning, Dhaka 2012, p. 29 (English, PDF 5.92 MB)
- ↑ Lukasz Stanek, Ákos Moravánszky, Christian Schmid: Urban Revolution Now: Henri Lefebvre in Social Research and Architecture . Ashgate, Surrey 2014, ISBN 978-1-4094-4293-6 , p. 57
- ↑ Volker Pabst: New Dimension of Islamist Violence in Bangladesh. NZZ, July 2, 2016.
- ↑ Timeline: Dhaka terror attack. (No longer available online.) Dhaka Tribune, July 2, 2016, archived from the original July 2, 2016 ; accessed on July 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 23 ° 47 ′ 37 " N , 90 ° 24 ′ 37.1" E