Dutch Coromandel Coromandel | |||||||||
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| 1608–1825 | |||||||||
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.png) Dutch Coromandel (in blue) within Dutch India | |||||||||
| Status | Factory | ||||||||
| Capital | Pulicat (1610–1690; 1781–1795) Nagapatnam (1690–1781) Sadras (1818–1825) | ||||||||
| Common languages | Dutch | ||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||
• 1608–1610 | Pieter Issack Eyloff | ||||||||
• 1636–1638 | Carel Reyniersz | ||||||||
• 1663–1665 | Cornelis Speelman | ||||||||
• 1824–1825 | Henry Francis von Söhsten | ||||||||
| Historical era | Imperialism | ||||||||
• Permission to build a fort in Pulicat | 1608 | ||||||||
| 1 June 1825 | |||||||||
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Coromandel was a governorate of the Dutch East India Company on the coasts of the Coromandel region from 1610, until the company's liquidation in 1798. Dutch presence in the region began with the capture of Pulicat from the Portuguese in Goa and Bombay-Bassein. Coromandel remained a colony of the Kingdom of the Netherlands until 1825, when it was relinquished to the British according to the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824. It was part of what is today called Dutch India.[1]
- ^ De VOC site – Coromandel Archived 2 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine