Stikkord: Tranquebar
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Here’s more about a person that my grandmother says is one of my ancestors, Ove Gjedde.
Ove Gjedde, an admiral in the Danish Navy, then negotiated a treaty on behalf of the Danish king Christian IV with the Thanjavur king, Vijaya Raghunatha Nayak. He acquired a 10-mile by three-mile-strip of the fishing village from the maharajah for a rent of Rs. 3,111 per annum, renamed it Tranquebar, and in 1622, built…