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Machilipatnam

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Machilipatnam (mə'shəlēpŭt`nəm), Masulipatnam (mə'sələpŭt`nəm), or Bandar (bŭn`dər), city (1991 pop. 159,110), Andhra Pradesh state, E central India, a port on the Bay of Bengal. In the 17th cent. it was a center of French, British, and Dutch trade. It has a carpet-weaving industry; other products include rice, oilseed, and scientific instruments. The town is a district administrative headquarters, a railroad terminus, and an educational center.


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He was presiding over an empire that sprawled from Kabul to Machilipatnam, and from Thatta in modern-day Pakistan to Jahangirnagar, the precursor to contemporary Dhaka.
These take the travelers to several coastal spots like Kakinada, Vizianagaram, Machilipatnam, Bhubaneshwar, Puri, and Balasore.
Brent Hample, executive director of Eugene-based India Partners, said a colleague who runs a relief agency in Machilipatnam, a city of 200,000 on the southeast coast of India, described in an e-mail message a scene that was both grim and chaotic.
 
 
 
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