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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Trincomalee

Britannica 11th

TRINCOMALEE, a town and former naval station on the north-east coast of Ceylon, 100 m. N.E. by N. of Kandy. Pop. (1901), 11,295. It is built on the north side of the bay of Trincomalee, on the neck of a bold peninsula separating the inner from the outer harbou ...

Vol. 27, pp. 284-284 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0