From a Portuguese atlas, 1630

Source: ebay, Mar. 2007

"Nieuhof's Audience with ye Queen of Koylang [Quilon]," from "Mr John Nieuhoff's remarkable voyages & travels into ye best provinces of ye West and East Indies", printed for Awnsham and John Churchill at the Black Swan in Pater Noster Row, London, 1703

"Coylang," or Quilon, c.1745, from Awnsham Churchill, A Collection of Voyages and Travels

Source: ebay, Sept. 2005

A plan published by the Van Keulen family in "De Zee En Land-Caarten en Gizigeten van steeden en landvertooningen van oost-indien," 1752

Source: ebay, Oct. 2007

A plan of the Dutch fortress by Bellin, from *PREVOST*, c.1750's; *Bellin's map of its immediate vicinity*

Source: ebay, Nov. 2006

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"The City of Cowlang" by Philip Baldaeus, from 'A True and Exact Description of the most Celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel; as also of the Isle of Ceylon', London, 1752; *a closer view*

Source: ebay, Aug. 2006

Source: ebay, Apr. 2008

Quilon, here shown as "Coulan," with its sheltered bay, was well situated for the sea trade (from a map by Wilkinson, 1794)

Source: ebay, Dec. 2005

Today, Tangasseri Fort (built by the Dutch in the 1500's) survives only as a few ruined walls

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(downloaded Nov. 2006)