Coimbatore, a town of strategic importance in the Madras Presidency, 30 m. SW. of Madras, situated in a gorge of the Ghâts, 1437 ft. above the sea-level, in a district (2,004) of the same name.
Population (circa 1900) given as 46,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Coila * Coimbra