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Tuticorin
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Tuticorin

Town and seaport in Tamil Nadu state, southeast India, on the Gulf of Mannar; population (1991) 284,200. It is an important industrial port and a centre for pearl fishing and marketing. Salt and cotton textiles are also produced.

It was founded by the Portuguese in 1540, captured by the Dutch in 1658, and ceded to the British in 1825. There is an old Dutch cemetery and a large Roman Catholic church built by the Portuguese.



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