>RoundSquare: Adding local short description: "Island of India", overriding Wikidata description "island at the mouth of the Kollidam River where it joins the Bay of Bengal" (Shortdesc helper)

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Adding local short description: "Island of India", overriding Wikidata description "island at the mouth of the Kollidam River where it joins the Bay of Bengal" (Shortdesc helper)

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{{Short description|Island of India}}
{{moresources|date=May 2018}}
{{Distinguish|Devakottai}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}}
'''Tivukottai''' ({{lang-ta|தீவுக்கோட்டை}}, ''island-fort''), more popularly known by its Anglicized name '''Devicottah''', is an [[island]] at the mouth of the [[Kollidam River]] where it joins the [[Bay of Bengal]]. Obtained by the [[East India Company]] from the Thanjavur Maratha king Shahuji in 1749 in return for his reinstatement, the English thought that Devicottah would make an excellent, defensible harbour and built a fort at the place. Shortly afterwards, the fort was captured by the French and recaptured by the British during the [[Anglo-French War (1756–63)|Anglo-French Wars]]. The place fell to the British once and for all in early 1760. The fort was deemed unfit for siege and was subsequently demolished and the settlement abandoned.

== References ==

* {{cite book|title=Madras District Gazetteers: Tanjore|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.13345|first=F. R.|last=Hemingway|year=1906|publisher=Government Press, Madras|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.13345/page/n272 255]–256}}

{{coord missing|Tamil Nadu}}

[[Category:Islands of Tamil Nadu]]

Devicottah - Revision history

>RoundSquare: Adding local short description: "Island of India", overriding Wikidata description "island at the mouth of the Kollidam River where it joins the Bay of Bengal" (Shortdesc helper)