São Tomé de Meliapore was a province of
Portuguese India
The State of India ( pt, Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (''Estado Português da Índia'', EPI) or simply Portuguese India (), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a se ...
which existed from 1523 to 1749. Administered by a Captain-Major, it covered most of
Mylapore, a present-day
Chennai
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
neighbourhood.
See also
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Thomas of Mylapore
The Diocese of Saint Thomas of Mylapore, presently in Chennai, Tamil Nadu (or in Portuguese ''São Tomé de Meliapor'', in Latin ''Sancti Thomae de Meliapor''), was a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in I ...
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Former Portuguese colonies
1523 establishments in the Portuguese Empire
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