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India / Denmark: Map of Tranquebar (Tharangambadi) showing Fort Dansborg, Giorf af Gregers, 1733, The Royal Library, Copenhagen

India / Denmark: Map of Tranquebar (Tharangambadi) showing Fort Dansborg, Giorf af Gregers, 1733, The Royal Library, Copenhagen

Tharangambadi, formerly Tranquebar, is a town in the Nagapattinam district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It lies 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north of Karaikal, near the mouth of a distributary of the Kaveri River.

It was a Danish colony from 1620 to 1845, and in Danish it is still known as Trankebar.

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