Balasore

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Baleswar ( Oriya: ବାଲେଶ୍ବର, Bāleśbar, English and Balasore ) is a town in the Indian state of Odisha with approximately 118,000 inhabitants ( 2011 census ). It lies on the east coast of India on the River Burhabalang and is the capital of the administrative district of the same.

1633 could be first Britons at the place down and founded their first settlement in what was then Bengal and a commercial port, which served also French, Dutch and Danish ships the East India Companies later also established bases there. In the 18th century, the port was an important trade center for rice and salt. The Danish and Dutch possessions were ceded to the British until 1846, only the French remained in Baleswar to 1947, up to the task of its main trading base in Bengal in Chandannagar.

South of Baleswar ( at 20 ° 59 ' latitude | width ) is a launch site for sounding rockets for military and missile tests. Baleswar since 1979 in operation ( up to 2008 489 starts), but is in contrast to that in the Satish Dhawan Space Centre is not the launch of satellites, because the free water surface to the east ( Bangladesh ) is not sufficient.