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Tharangambadi

Tharangambadi
Tranquebar
Town
Fort Dansborg, built by the 17th century as seen in 2007; part of the wall is now under the sea.
Fort Dansborg, built by the 17th century as seen in 2007; part of the wall is now under the sea.
Tharangambadi is located in Tamil Nadu
Tharangambadi
Tharangambadi
Tharangambadi is located in India
Tharangambadi
Tharangambadi
Coordinates: 11°1′45″N 79°50′58″E / 11.02917°N 79.84944°E / 11.02917; 79.84944
CountryIndia
StateTamil Nadu
DistrictMayiladuthurai
Government
 • TypeTamilnadu
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total
23,191
Languages
 • OfficialTamil
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
609313
Vehicle registrationTN 82-Z

Tharangambadi (Tamil: [t̪aɾaŋgambaːɖi]), formerly Tranquebar[2] (Danish: Trankebar, pronounced [ˈtsʰʁɑŋkəˌpɑˀ]), is a town in the Mayiladuthurai district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu on the Coromandel Coast. It lies 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north of Karaikal, near the mouth of a distributary named Uppanar of the Kaveri River. Tranquebar was established on 19 November 1620[3] as the first Danish trading post in India.[4] King Christian IV had sent his envoy Ove Gjedde who established contact with Raghunatha Nayak of Tanjore. An annual tribute was paid by the Danes to the Rajah of Tanjore until the colony of Tranquebar was sold to the British East India Company in 1845.[5]

Tharangambadi is the headquarters of Tharangambadi taluk. Its name means "place of the singing waves"; the old designation Trankebar remains current in modern Danish.[6] Tharangambadi is located at the distance of 285 km from Chennai. The nearest airport is at Tiruchirapalli international airport at 172 km and the nearest port is at Karaikal at 26 km. It is served by Tharangambadi railway station.

  1. ^ "Census of India: Search Details". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  2. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tranquebar" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 169.
  3. ^ "Grundlæggelsen af kolonien Tranquebar, 1620-1630".
  4. ^ "A visit to Tranquebar, Denmark's forgotten outpost in India". CNN. 14 September 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Tranquebar | lex.dk". Den Store Danske (in Danish). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Trankebar | lex.dk". Den Store Danske (in Danish). Retrieved 30 January 2021.

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