In his conquest of Chittagong from the Arakanese (1665–1666), Shaista Khan received 40 ships from the Portuguese for his naval fleet. A section of the Portuguese came from Sandwip and Arakan and settled on the bank of Ichamati River (about south of Dhaka) at the present-day Muktarpur–Mirkadim area in Munshiganj, which bears its historical name of Feringhi Bazar. They were mainly involved in the salt trade.
