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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin: Plan de la Forteresse de Coylan.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin  (1703–1772)  wikidata:Q607846 s:fr:Auteur:Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
 
Alternative names
Jacques Nicolas, Sieur Bellin; Jacques Nicolas Bellin; Nicolas Bellin
Description French cartographer, encyclopédistes, geographer and hydrographer
Date of birth/death 1703 Edit this at Wikidata 21 March 1772 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Versailles
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artist QS:P170,Q607846
Title
Plan de la Forteresse de Coylan.
Description
English: This is a rare 1756 map of the fort of Kollam, Kerala, on India’s Malabar Coast by French cartographer N. Bellin. Kollam, or as it is otherwise Known Quilon or Coylan, lies roughly 71 km north of Trivandrum, India. Kollam Fort was originally built by the Portuguese, however, it was captured by the Dutch in 1671 and by the British in 1795. This map presents beautiful image of the fort completely with palm forests and sailing ships navigating the surrounding seals. Prepared by N. Bellin for issue in the 1757 edition of A. Provost’s L`Histoire Generale des Voyages .
Date 1756 (undated)
Dimensions height: 7.5 in (19 cm); width: 11 in (27.9 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,7.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,11U218593
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Geographicus link: Coylan-bellin-1756
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Provost, A., L`Histoire Generale des Voyages, 1756.

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