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{{Infobox military installation<br />
| name = Fort Vijf Sinnen<br />
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| image = AMH-4554-NA Map of Vyf Sinnen castle at Nagapatnam.jpg<br />
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'''Fort Vijf Sinnen''' (also '''Vyf Sinnen''', Dutch for "the five senses") was a fortification made by the Dutch [[East India Company]] in [[Nagapattinam]], then part of [[Dutch Coromandel]] (1610-1798), now [[Tamil Nadu]]. The fortification, also described as a castle, was built to protect the interests of the trading company, which shifted the capital of the Coromandel operation from [[Pulicat]] to Nagapattinam in 1690, three years after work began on the fort.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Dutch on the Coromandel|newspaper=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/the-dutch-on-the-coromandel/article6799917.ece|accessdate=15 September 2016|date=19 January 2015}}</ref><br />
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The heavily armed fort in the end proved useless in the 1781 [[Siege of Negapatam]], in which the British took the fort. In the [[Treaty of Paris (1784)|Treaty of Paris of 1784]] which ended the [[Fourth Anglo-Dutch War]] of which this siege was part, Nagapattinam was not restored to Dutch rule, but remained British. The headquarters of the colony shifted back to Pulicat.<ref name="mint">{{cite web|url=http://lakdiva.org/coins/dutch_india/pulicat_cud.html |title=Paliakate - VOC Kas Copper Dumps, 1646 - 1794 - Dutch India]|author=Kavan Ratnatunga|author-link=Kavan Ratnatunga|year=2006|work=Dutch India coins - Pulicat|publisher=lakdiva.org|accessdate=2008-12-02}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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*[http://www.vocsite.nl/geschiedenis/handelsposten/coromandel.html Coromandel] on ''De VOC site''<br />
*[http://www.atlasofmutualheritage.nl/nl/Profielen-fort-Vyf-Sinnen-Nagapatnam.4558 Profiles] of the fort walls<br />
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[[Category:Archaeological monuments in Tamil Nadu]]<br />
[[Category:Forts in Tamil Nadu|Vijf Sinnen]]<br />
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Nagapattinam district]]<br />
[[Category:Dutch Coromandel]]</div>>Tom.Reding