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Definition of Thanas
1. thana [n] - See also: thana
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thanas
Literary usage of Thanas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The 1998 Floods in Bangladesh: Disaster Impacts, Household Coping Strategies by Carlo Del Ninno (2001)
"We used three main criteria to select the seven thanas. ... Our second criterion
was the level of poverty in the district in which the thanas were located. ..."
2. Group-Based Financial Institutions for the Rural Poor in Bangladesh: An by Manfred Zeller, Anna Ferro-Luzzi (2001)
"In the second stage, a complete enumeration of thanas for these five districts was
... For each of the 160 thanas in these districts, secondary data were ..."
3. Catalogue méthodique de la bibliothèque communale de la ville d'Amiens [by J by Jacques Jean B.A. Garnier, Amiens bibl (1875)
"In Midnapore small-pox prevails in the thanas on the sea-coast, where inoculation
is habitually practised. Inoculation was, however, prohibited towards the ..."
4. Third Report on the State of Education in Bengal;+: Including Some Account by William Adam (1838)
"Of the above twenty thanas there are four without any institution of education
... In twenty thanas the total number of schools of every description is 113, ..."
5. Wheat Production in Bangladesh: Technological, Economic, and Policy Issues by Michael L. Morris, Nuimuddin Chowdhury, Craig Meisner (1997)
"In the second stage of the sampling procedure—selection of 21 thanas—the 21 tha-
nas were distributed among the five agroclimatic categories in proportion ..."
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