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Coromandel Coast , east coast of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh states, SE India, stretching more than 400 mi (644 km) from Point Calimere, opposite the northern tip of Sri Lanka to the delta of the Krishna River. Its major cities, Nagapattinam, Puducherry (Pondicherry), and Chennai (Madras), are ports. The inland coastal plain is bounded by the Eastern Ghats and includes the debouchments of the Penner, Palar, Ponnaiyar, and Kaveri rivers. The name probably stems from Cholomandalam, i.e., land of the Chola , an empire that ruled the region from the 9th to the 12th cent.

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Coromandel Coast, Tamil Nādu/India Mabar The earlier Arabic name from ma᾽bar ‘ferry’ or ‘crossing place’ may refer to the place where ships crossed to Sri Lanka. The present name comes from the Sanskrit choramandala ‘Realm of Chora’, Chora, or Chola, being the name of a Tamil royal dynasty with mandalam ‘kingdom’. The name has been spelt in a number of different ways, but it was the Italians who substituted the ch for c and this was accepted by the British in 1778.

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