Editing Sylhet (section)

== History ==
{{Main|History of Sylhet}}
In 1303, the Sultan of Lakhnauti [[Shamsuddin Firoz Shah]] [[Conquest of Sylhet|conquered Sylhet]] by defeating [[Gour Govinda]].<ref name="Fazal2013">{{cite book |last=Fazal |first=Tanweer |year=2013 |title=Minority Nationalisms in South Asia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6bGMAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA53 |publisher=Routledge |pages=53 |isbn=978-1-317-96647-0}}</ref> Sylhet became a part of the [[Bengal Sultanate]]. In the [[16th century]], Sylhet was controlled by the [[Baro-Bhuiyan]] [[zamindar]]s and later became a sarkar (district) of the [[Mughal Empire]].<ref name="Sangma1994">{{cite book |last=Sangma |first=Milton S. |title=Essays on North-east India: Presented in Memory of Professor V. Venkata Rao |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UaNQ_HLLt04C&pg=PA75 |year=1994 |publisher=Indus Publishing |isbn=978-81-7387-015-6 |pages=75}}</ref> Sylhet emerged after 1612 as the Mughals' most significant imperial outpost in Bengal east of Dhaka, and its importance remained as such throughout the seventeenth century.<ref>{{cite book |last=Nath |first=Pratyay |year=2019 |title=Climate of Conquest: War, Environment, and Empire in Mughal North India |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-949555-9 |pages=184–185}}</ref> [[British Empire|British rule]] began in the 18th century under the administration of the [[East India Company]]. Sylhet became a key source of [[lascar]]s in the British Empire due in part to its ancient seafaring tradition. The Sylhet municipal board was established in 1867.<ref name="sylhetcitycorporationbd.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.sylhetcitycorporationbd.org/ |title=Welcome sylhetcitycorporationbd.org - Justhost.com |website=www.sylhetcitycorporationbd.org |access-date=26 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013014249/http://www.sylhetcitycorporationbd.org/ |archive-date=13 October 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Originally part of the [[Bengal Presidency]] and later [[Eastern Bengal and Assam]], the town became part of Colonial Assam in 1874. A devastating earthquake demolished almost the entire town on [[1897 Assam earthquake|12 June 1897]] following which a modern and European model new town was built on the wreckage.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} From the beginning of the 20th century, the importance of Sylhet increased with the establishment of the tea industry.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History Of Bangladesh Tea {{!}} Tea Traders Association of Bangladesh (TTAB) |url=https://ttabctg.com/about-us/history-of-bangladesh-tea/ |access-date=2025-01-02}}</ref>

In 1947, following a [[1947 Sylhet referendum|referendum]] and the [[partition of British India]], Sylhet became part of East Pakistan.<ref name="Fazal2013"/> In 1995, the Government of Bangladesh declared Sylhet as the sixth [[Divisions of Bangladesh|divisional headquarters]] of the country.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.londoni.co/index.php/travel-guide/29-location-guide/3-sylhet-bangladesh |title=Basics of Islam |website=Londoni |access-date=10 September 2016 |archive-date=5 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230905170347/http://www.londoni.co/index.php/travel-guide/29-location-guide/3-sylhet-bangladesh |url-status=dead}}</ref> Sylhet has played a vital role in the [[Economy of Bangladesh]]. Several of Bangladesh's [[Finance Minister of Bangladesh|finance ministers]] have been members of parliament from the city of Sylhet. [[Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran]] was a long time mayor of Sylhet. [[Humayun Rashid Choudhury]], a diplomat from Sylhet, served as [[President of the UN General Assembly]] and Speaker of the [[Jatiyo Sangshad|Bangladesh National Parliament]].

In 2001, the municipality was upgraded to the [[Sylhet City Corporation]]. It was made a metropolitan city in 2009.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web |url=http://www.sylhetcitycorporationbd.org/index.php/cms/home/ |title=Welcome sylhetcitycorporationbd.org - Justhost.com |website=www.sylhetcitycorporationbd.org |access-date=10 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704033705/http://www.sylhetcitycorporationbd.org/index.php/cms/home |archive-date=4 July 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>