INDIA-Carte du District de Tranquebar.

Superbly hand coloured example of this C.18th map of the Indian town of Tharangambadi, formerly Tranquebar, in the Mayiladuthurai district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu on the Coromandel Coast with a key at top left of prominent sites.

It lies 15 kilometres north of Karaikal, near the mouth of a distributary named Uppanar of the Kaveri River. Tranquebar was established on 19 November 1620 as the first Danish trading post in India. 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.

From Prevost, Histoire General Du Voyages. Paris.