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Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, [a] was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, [b] at the age of 18 she moved to ...
Official website. The Culcutta Botanic Garden, previously known as Indian Botanic Garden [1] and the Calcutta Botanic Garden, [2] is a botanical garden situated in Shibpur, Howrah near Kolkata. They are commonly known as the Calcutta Botanical Garden and previously as the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. [3] The gardens exhibit a wide variety of ...
Kolkata Metropolitan Area (abbreviated KMA; formerly Calcutta Metropolitan Area ), also known as Greater Kolkata, is the urban agglomeration of the city of Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the third most populous metropolitan area in India after Delhi and Mumbai. The area is administered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development ...
CZA, [1] WBZA. Website. Official website eticketaliporezoo .com. The Zoological Garden, Alipore (also informally called the Alipore Zoo or Kolkata Zoo) is India's oldest formally stated zoological park (as opposed to royal and British menageries) and a big tourist attraction in Kolkata, West Bengal. It has been open as a zoo since 1876, and ...
Black Hole of Calcutta. Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in old Fort William, Calcutta, India. It was 18 feet (5.5 metres) long and 14 feet (4 metres) wide, and had two small windows. [1] The fort was built by the British to defend their trading interests in Calcutta. During hostilities in 1756, the fort was captured by the army of the ...
The Victoria Memorial is a large marble monument dedicated to Queen Victoria, the Empress of India (1876-1901) facing the Queens Way on the Maidan in Central Kolkata. It was built between 1906 and 1921 by the British Raj. It is the largest monument to a monarch anywhere in the world.
www.kolkatamycity.com. † Vùng đô thị Kolkata cũng bao gồm cả hai quận Bắc 24 Parganas và Nam 24 Parganas. Kolkata ( IPA: ['kolkat̪a] tiếng Bengal: কলকাতা ), trước đây, trong các văn cảnh tiếng Anh, Calcutta, là thủ phủ của bang Tây Bengal, Ấn Độ. Thành phố tọa lạc ở phía Đông ...