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Vasco da Gama reached Calicut the second time with 15 ships and 800 men in February 1502. In January 1502, the First Battle of Cannanore between the Third Portuguese Armada and Kingdom of Cochin under João da Nova and Zamorin of Kozhikode 's navy marked the beginning of Portuguese conflicts in the Indian Ocean.
Victorian era (the United Kingdom, 1837–1901); British hegemony (1815–1914) much of world, around the same time period. Belle Époque (Europe, primarily France, 1871–1914) Edwardian era (the United Kingdom, 1901–1914) First, interwar period and Second World Wars (1914–1945) Interwar Britain (United Kingdom, 1918–1939) Cold War (1945 ...
A 1652 Map of India (Malabar is highlighted separately on the right side) A 1744 map of Malabar Coast The district lay between the Arabian Sea on the west, South Canara District on the north, the Western Ghats (the princely states of Coorg and Mysore , and Nilgiris and Coimbatore districts) to the east, and the princely state of Cochin to the ...
English: A map of the Kozhikode district of Kerala, India, in 1961. Parts of present Wayanad and Malappuram districts were included in the erstwhile Kozhikode district. Parts of present Wayanad and Malappuram districts were included in the erstwhile Kozhikode district.
By this time, the Kingdoms of Calicut and Kolathunadu had declined and during Tipu Sultan's invasion of Malabar, most of the kingdoms in Northern Kerala were annexed to him, including these kingdoms, with some members of their royal families escaping to the Kingdom of Travancore. [7]
Thali Temple (1901), Calicut Thali Temple, present day, Kozhikode. The title zamorin first appears in the writings of Ibn Battuta in 1342. [9] In the Portuguese Book of Duarte Barbosa (c. 1516), the title of the ruler of Calicut is given as çamidre or zomodri, derived from the local Malayalam sāmūtiri.
In antiquity and the medieval period, Kozhikode was dubbed the City of Spices for its role as the major trading point for Indian spices. [10] It was the capital of an independent kingdom ruled by the Samoothiris (Zamorins), which was also the largest kingdom in Kerala prior to the expansion of Travancore in the mid-18th century CE. [9]
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