Danish India
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Danish India is a term for the former colonies of Denmark in India.
They included the town of Tranquebar in present-day Tamil Nadu state, and the Nicobar Islands, currently part of India's union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
History
The Danish colonies in India were founded by the Danish East India Company, which was active from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The Danish colony's capital was Fort Daneborg at Tranquebar, established in 1620, on the Coromandel coast.The Danish also established several commercial outposts, governed from Tranquebar:
- 1696 - 1722 Oddeway Torre on the Malabar coast
- 1698 - 1714 Dannemarksnagore at Gondalpara, southeast of Chandernagore
- 1752 - 1791 Calicut
- october 1755 Frederiksnagore at Serampore, in present-day West Bengal.
- 1754/1756 the Nicobar Islands -under the name Frederik Oerne Islands.
- 1763 Balasore (already occupied 1636-1643).
In 1789 the Andaman Islands become a British possession. During the Napoleonic Wars, the British attacked Danish shipping, and devastated the Danish East India Company's India trade; in May 1801 - August 1802 and 1808 - 20 September 1815 the British even occupied Dansborg and Frederiksnagore.
The Danish colonies went into decline, and the British ultimately took possession of them, making them part of British India: Serampore was sold to the British in 1839, and Tranquebar and most minor settlements in 1845 (11 October 1845 Frederiksnagore sold; 7 November 1845 other continental Danish India settlements sold); on 16 October 1869 all Danish rights to the Nicobar Islands, which since 1848 had been gradually abandoned, were sold to Britain.
| Danish overseas colonies and territories |
| Former Danish colonies |
| Danish Gold Coast (Danish Guinea) | Danish India (capital Dansborg at Tranquebar, Balasore in Orissa, Frederiksnagore at Serampore in Bengal, Dannemarksnagore at Gondalpara, Calicut, Oddeway Torre on Malabar coast; annex Frederiksøerne: the Nicobar islands) | Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands) See also: Danish East India Company | Danish West India Company |
| Current overseas territories of Denmark: | Faroe Islands | Greenland
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