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Cal·cut·ta AHD[kăl-kŭtʹə] D.J.[kælˈkʌtə]K.K.[kælˈkʌtə]NONE（无词性）- A city of eastern India on the Hooghly River in the Ganges delta. Founded c. 1690 as a British East India Company trading post, it is India's largest city and a major port and industrial center. In the notorious Black Hole of Calcutta more than 120 British soldiers died of suffocation (1756) after being imprisoned overnight in the small, stifling dungeon by the nawab of Bengal. Population, 3,305,006.加尔各答：印度东部的一座城市，位于恒河三角洲上的胡格利河畔。于公元1690年作为英国东印度公司的商贸据点而建成，是印度最大的城市，主要的港口和工业中心。在臭名昭著的“加尔各答黑洞”中，120名英国士兵被整夜囚禁在狭小憋闷的地牢里然后窒息而死（1756）。人口3,305,006
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