Nagapattinam (also formerly known as Negapatam) is a small city of about a 100,000 population located in Coastal Tamil Nadu state in India. It is located in a Temple rich area: the city hosts the reputed Soundararajan Perumal Koil, Neelayatakshmi Amman Koil and is pretty close to the reputed Church and Mosque in Vellankani and Nagore, respectively. It is about 8 hours south of Chennai (Madras).
This place was in recent news because of the devastating Tsunami of 2004 which hit here killing about 8,000 people. This Tsunami also killed about 100,000 people in Indonesia mainly in Aceh area and about 30,000 in Sri Lanka apart from toll in Malaysia, Thailand, and as far as East Africa.
During their period of occupation the French struck rupees at Mazulipatam bearing a lotus symbol: a form of coin that was to be continued by the British from 1780 until 1795.
Negapatam, on the Coromandel coast, lay some 20 miles south of the European settlement Karaikal, over 150 miles below Madras, but only 70 miles north of Jaffna on the island of ceylon.
In 1657 the Dutch occupied Negapatam from the Portuguese and in 1676, when the Maratha prince Venkaji had established himself at Tanjore, the grant of Negapatam to the Dutch was confirmed.
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