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Pondicherry ( or ) or Puducherry is a city, an urban agglomeration and a municipality in Puducherry district in the Indian union territory of Puducherry. It is affectionately known as Pondy, and has been officially known by the alternative name Puducherry since 2006. Pondicherry is the regional capital and largest city in the territory.
Pondicherry, officially Puducherry, is a city in the Union Territory of Puducherry.
Pondicherry may also refer to:
- Puducherry, formerly Pondicherry, a Union Territory of India
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Pondicherry district, a district of the Union Territory of Puducherry, containing the city of Pondicherry
- Pondicherry taluk, in Pondicherry district
- Puducherry (Lok Sabha constituency), a parliament constituency comprising the Union Territory of Puducherry
- Pondicherry University
- Battle of Pondicherry
- Siege of Pondicherry (1760)
- the Pondicherry football team
- Pondicherry Engineering College
- the Pondicherry shark
- The original name of Brighton, Maine
Usage examples of "pondicherry".
In the East Indies, rear-admiral Boscawen undertook the siege of Pondicherry, which in the month of August he blocked up by sea with his squadron, and invested by land with a small army of four thousand Europeans, and about two thousand natives of that country.
The Madrasi too has a dark complexion so he should stay at Pondicherry!
By this time the attacks, which the English from Trichinopoli and Madura had made upon the Mysoreans, had compelled the latter to make peace, and recall their army, which was still hovering in the neighbourhood of Pondicherry.
They left Pondicherry in 1954, leaving behind nice white buildings, broad streets at right angles to each other, street names such as rue de la Marine and rue Saint-Louis, and kepis, caps, for the policemen.