Tirunelveli district
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Tirunelveli district is a district of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The city of Tirunelveli is the district headquarters. Tirunelveli District was formed on 1 September 1790[1][2] by the East India Company (on behalf of the British government), and comprised the present Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi districts and parts of Virudhunagar district and Ramanathapuram districts. It is the second-largest district (as of October 2008), after Villupuram district. As of 2011, the district had a population of 3,077,233.
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- ↑ http://www.edreamsinetcafe.in/tirunelveli/history.htm[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-25. Retrieved 2017-03-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)