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TRANQUEBAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 169 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TRANQUEBAR  , a

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town of
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British
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India, in the
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Tanjore
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district of
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Madras, on the
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sea-
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coast, 18 m . N. of
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Negapatam . Pop . (19o1), 13,142 . A Danish factory was opened here as
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early as 162o . It was taken by the British in 18o1, but restored in 1814, and finally
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purchased, with the other Danish settlements in India, in 1845 . In Danish times Tranquebar was a busy
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port, but it lost its importance when the railway was opened to Negapatam . It was the first
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settlement of
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Protestant missionaries in India, founded by Ziegenbalg and Plutschau (
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Lutherans) in 1706; and there is still a Lutheran
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mission high school and mission
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press .

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