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

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

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