page_title: Yanaon
section_title: Dutch colony
hierarchical_section_title: Yanaon / Dutch colony
caption_attribution_description: English: This was very old map of Yanaon (Yanam) which was probably during early times of French rule. Source AOCarteYanaon.JPG
context_page_description: Yanaon or Yanam was one of the five settlements of French India between 1731 and 1954.
context_section_description: In the west of Yanam, there are still Neelikundilu (Indigo wells). People say that the Dutch constructed a fort here. It is being called by locals as "saali kota" because previously weavers (Saalivandru) used to weave clothes after the exit of the Dutch. They used to keep their currency, minted in the mint at Neelapalli, in this fort.
  The Dutch left Yanam before 1725. Some 25 kilometres (16 mi) north they used to have a colony at Jagannadhapuram (Dutch Jaggernaikpoeram, English Jagannaickpore), now in Kakinada between 1734–1795  and 1818–1825.
caption: Colonial Yanaon
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