I wanted to write about Tranquebar (Tharangambadi in Tamil) in Nagapattinam District. I didn’t know that there is so much history behind this place. Each and every place in
I didn’t know that Tharangambadi is a Danish colony long before (1620 - 1845) which was a busy port in those years. Two Lutherans - Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Pluetschau were playing major role to establish Danish colony in Tranquebar and it was later taken by British. It is said only Danish were the first for protestant missionaries in
Do you know who were the first to enter
This image will give you very clear idea on European settlements in India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:European_settlements_in_India_1501-1739.png
My post looks more like a history article.. :)
2 comments:
That was a good info. Good to know about the first settlers. The picture of Munnar in your earlier post is beautiful. Keep blogging.
The Tharangambadi settlement also produced one of the earliest books printed in Tamil - a translation of the Bible commissioned by the Danish state church. If you're interested in that sort of thing, there's a picture of the first page
on Wikipedia. Tamil was written rather differently in those days, as you can see.
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