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Kannur also finds mention as Naura in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, a Greek work of great antiquity. Kolattiri Raja's (The ruler of Kannur) minister Kuruppu's Arabic letter to Vasco da Gama (1524) A portrait if Kannur drawn in 1635. North Malabar was the seat of powerful kingdom based at Ezhimala in the Sangam period (1st-5th century
Arakkal kingdom was so powerful at that time as an ally of Mysore, even to defy the British. British East India Company was not allowed by the Arakkal kingdom to build a military garrison in Dharmadam. So they were forced to build their base in Thalassery where there was a strong presence of French forces stationed few kilometers away in Mahé. [2]
Kannur served as the British military headquarters on India's west coast until 1887. In conjunction with her sister city, Tellicherry, it was the third-largest city on the western coast of British India in the 18th century after Bombay and Karachi. The Arakkal kingdom had right over the city of Kannur and Laccadive Islands in the late medieval ...
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During the 17th century, Kannur was the capital city of the only Muslim Sultanate in the Malabar region – Arakkal. [61] The Ali Rajas of Arakkal kingdom, near Kannur, who were the vassals of the Kolathiri, ruled over the Lakshadweep islands. [62] In 1761, the British captured Mahé, and the settlement was handed over to the ruler of ...
Kannur (Malayalam: [kɐɳːuːr] ⓘ), formerly known in English as Cannanore, is a City and municipal corporation in the state of Kerala, India.It is the administrative headquarters of the Kannur district and situated 274 kilometres (170 mi) north of the major port city and commercial hub Kochi and 137 kilometres (85 mi) south of the major port city and a commercial hub, Mangalore.
Kannavam is a village in Thalasseri taluk of Kannur district in the State of Kerala. However, "Kannavam" is also the name of the dominant feudal Nair (Nambiar) clan resident to this village. [1] The Kannavath Nambiars were vassals of Kottayam Raja. They were once the richest landlords in Northern Malabar. Sankaran was born into this feudal clan ...
The Laccadive / ˈ l æ k ə d ɪ v / or Kannur / ˈ k æ n ə n ɔːr / Islands are one of the three island subgroups in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep, India. It is the central subgroup of the Lakshadweep, separated from the Amindivi Islands subgroup roughly by the 11th parallel north and from the atoll of Minicoy (Maliku)—far to the ...