Vizagapatam

Vizagapatam
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Presidency: Madras
Coordinates:	17.688378°N, 83.218758°E
Altitude:	5 m (16 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Visakhapatnam
State/Province:	Andhra Pradesh
Country:	India
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Vizagapatam was the headquarters of the Vizagapatam District of Madras during the British period. The HQ is sometimes found as Waltair now a suburb.

Spelling variants

Modern spelling: Visakhapatnam
Variants: Vizagapatam/Vaisakhapattanam

Cemeteries

• Old Cemetery
• Regimental lines Cemetery - also known as Mors Janua Vitae
• Waltair Cemetery.

• BACSA have published the book Vizagapatam and Waltair (from 1699) by David Cooke, 1992. An index of names is included in the free search facility on their website. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.

• Also see external links below

Also see

• Carnatic European Veteran Battalion

External links

• Vizagapatam Town Imperial Gazetteer
  
• RAF Vizagapatam rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014)
• “Madras District Gazetteer – Vizagapatam” by W Francis , Indian Civil Service, Government Press, Madras 1907 pdf page 345 giving Town Map 1907
• "Historic Regimental Lines Cemetery in the city to get a new lease of life lease of life" by Umamaheswara Rao 26 February 2019 Times of India.

Cemetery Inscriptions online

• Inscriptions on tombs in Vizagapatam District Section from Tombs and Monuments in Madras possessing Historical or Archaeological Interest vol 2 (1845) by J J cotton. Archive.org

Historical books online

• "Vizagapatam and Waltair" page 419 Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations 1864 Archive.org
• A Manual of the District of Vizagapatam, in the Presidency of Madras by D. F. Carmichael 1869 Google Books
• Madras District Gazetteers: Vizagapatam 1907 Archive.org