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Kerala (English: / ˈ k ɛr ə l ə / ⓘ / KERR-ə-lə; Malayalam: [keːɾɐɭɐm] ⓘ), is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. [16] It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South Canara, and Travancore.
Malayalam is a language spoken by the native people of southwestern India and the islands of Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea. According to the Indian census of 2011, there were 32,413,213 speakers of Malayalam in Kerala, making up 93.2% of the total number of Malayalam speakers in India, and 97.03% of the total population of the state.
The Kingdom of Travancore was a kingdom in Central and Southern Kerala that existed from ancient times until 1949. Until the reign of Marthanda Varma, the kingdom was known as Venad. In the 11th century, Venad became a vassal of the Chola Empire. In the 16th century, Venad became a vassal of the Vijayanagara Empire.
The Cheras regained control over Kerala in the 9th century CE until the kingdom was dissolved in the 12th century, after which smaller kingdoms, most notably the Kingdom of Calicut, arose. In 1498 CE, Portuguese traveler Vasco Da Gama established a sea route to Kozhikode by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope , located in the southernmost ...
The first major Media coverage about the Malayalam Wikipedia was on 2 September 2007, when Malayalam daily newspaper Mathrubhumi covered Malayalam Wikipedia project extensively in its Sunday Supplement. [3] This generated significant interest in the Wikipedia project and large number of users joined the project and started to contribute. [4]
Pashchimodayam was the second newspaper in Malayalam. It started in October 1847 from Thalassery . Deepika , the oldest Malayalam newspaper now in circulation, was established in 1887.
Satyanada Kahalam continued in existence till 1999 in the form of Kerala Times, to which it had merged in 1970. [3] Nasrani Deepika, which became Deepika in 1939 remains the oldest Malayalam newspaper still in circulation. [3]
The ceremony was attended by Malayalam film actors Asif Ali and Tovino Thomas, along with other prominent politicians from Kerala. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] At the conclusion of the 5-day event on 8 January 2025, Thrissur district won the championship for the 6th time in the 63-year history of the Kalolsavam.