Tranquebar (Tarangambádi), a seaport of Madras Presidency, 22 miles N. of Negapatam. A Danish settlement from 1624 to 1807, it passed finally to the English in 1845 for £20,000, and was a busy place till the construction of the South Indian Railway to Negapatam (1861) diverted away its trade. The first Protestant mission to India was established here in 1706. Pop. 6189.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 270
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