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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 149 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SINGORA, or SONGKLA (the Sangore of See also:early navigators)  , a See also:port on the E. See also:coast of the See also:Malay See also:Peninsula and the See also:head-quarters of the high See also:commissioner of the Siamese See also:division of Nakhon Sri Tammarat . It is situated in 70 12' N. and 1oo° 35' E . It was settled at the beginning of the 19th See also:century by See also:Chinese from See also:Amoy, the See also:leader of whom was appointed by See also:Siam to be See also:governor of the See also:town and See also:district . Having been more than once sacked by Malay pirates, the town was encircled, about 185o, by a strong See also:wall, which, as both Chinese See also:governors and Malay pirates, are now things of the past, supplies the public See also:works See also:department with See also:good road See also:metal . The See also:population, about s000, Chinese, Siamese and a few See also:Malays, is stationary, and the same may be said of the See also:trade, which is all carried in Chinese junks . The town has become an important administrative centre; good roads connect it with Kedah and other places in the Peninsula, and the See also:mining is See also:developed in the interior . In 1906 See also:railways surveys were undertaken by the See also:government with a view to making See also:Singora the port for S . Siam; but this See also:harbour, formed by the entrance to the inland See also:sea of Patalung, would require dredging to be available for vessels of any See also:size .

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