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Visit Kozhikode visit kozhikode Kozhikode([koːɻikːoːɖ]), orCalicut, is a metropolitan city in the state ofKeralain southernIndiaon theMalabar Coast.

Calicut is the largesturban area

18/10/2021

Baburaj was born on 9 March 1929[3] in Kozhikode, then known as Calicut. His early childhood was spent in destitution and poverty. His father, Jan Muhammed Khan, who was a Hindustani musician from Bengal who frequently held concerts in Kerala, deserted his Malayali mother when he was very young, and returned to his native Kolkata. Baburaj thus became fatherless, often singing songs in trains to make a living. But as luck would have it, a policeman, Kunjumuhammed (he was called Kunjumuhammed ika), an enthusiast of music from his native town of Kozhikode, noticing the boy's vocal talents, decided to virtually adopt him.

SM street Calicut/Kozhikode
13/05/2020

SM street Calicut/Kozhikode

26/10/2018

Celebrate the magic and joys of Diwali

Kozhikode
19/08/2018

Kozhikode

Samoothiri:--Kozhikode and its suburbs formed part of the Polanad kingdom ruled by the Porlatiri. The Eradis of Nediyiri...
12/01/2018

Samoothiri:--Kozhikode and its suburbs formed part of the Polanad kingdom ruled by the Porlatiri. The Eradis of Nediyirippu in Eranad wanted an outlet to the sea, to initiate trade and commerce with the distant lands. and after fighting with the king Polatthiri for 48 years conquered the area around Panniankara. After this, Menokki were became the ruler of Polanad and came to terms with the troops and people. After this, the town of Kozhikode was founded close to the palace at Tali. Then, the Eradis shifted their headquarters from Nediyirippu to Kozhikode. The Governor of Ernad built a fort at a place called Velapuram to safeguard his new interests. The fort most likely lent its name to Koyil Kotta the precursor to Kozhikode. Thus the city came into existence sometime in the 13th century CE. The status of Udaiyavar increased and he became known as Swami Nambiyathiri Thirumulpad, and eventually Samuri or Samoothiri. Europeans called him in a corrupt form as Samorin.

According to K.V. Krishna Iyer, the rise of Kozhikode is at once a cause and a consequence of Samoothiri's ascendancy in Kerala. By the end of the century, Samoothiri was at the zenith of his powers with all princes and chieftains of Kerala north of Kochi acknowledging his suzerainty.

Beach taste
27/12/2017

Beach taste

Ma Huan(1403 AD), the Chinese Muslim sailor part of the Imperial Chinese fleet under Cheng Ho (Zheng He)[20]lauds the ci...
15/09/2017

Ma Huan(1403 AD), the Chinese Muslim sailor part of the Imperial Chinese fleet under Cheng Ho (Zheng He)[20]lauds the city as a great emporium of trade frequented by merchants from around the world. He makes note of the 20 or 30 mosques built to cater to the religious needs of the Muslims, the unique system of calculation by the merchants using their fingers and toes (followed to this day) and the matrilineal systemof succession.

Da Gama'sdiscovery of the sea route to Indiawas significant and opened the way for an age of globalimperialismand for th...
14/09/2017

Da Gama'sdiscovery of the sea route to Indiawas significant and opened the way for an age of globalimperialismand for the Portugueseto establish a long-lastingcolonial empirein Asia. Traveling the ocean route allowed the Portuguese to avoid sailing across the highly disputedMediterraneanand traversing the dangerousArabian Peninsula. The sum of the distances covered in the outward and return voyages made this expedition the longest ocean voyage ever made until then, far longer than a full voyage around the world by way of theEquator.[1]After decades of sailors trying to reach the Indies, with thousands of lives and dozens of vessels lost in shipwrecks and attacks, da Gama landed inCalicuton 20 May 1498. Unopposed access to the Indianspice routesboosted the economy of thePortuguese Empire, which was previously based along northern and coastal West Africa. The spices obtained from SoutheastAsia were primarilypepperandcinnamonat first, but soon includedother products, all new to Europe. Portugal maintained a commercial monopoly of these commodities for several decades. It would be a century later before

Ibn Battuta(1342–1347), who visited six times, gives us the earliest glimpses of life in the city. He describes Kozhikod...
13/09/2017

Ibn Battuta(1342–1347), who visited six times, gives us the earliest glimpses of life in the city. He describes Kozhikode as "one of the great ports of the district of Malabar" where "merchants of all parts of the world are found". The king of this place, he says, "shaves his chin just as the Haidari Fakeers of Rome do...The greater part of the Muslim merchants of this place are so wealthy that one of them canpurchase the whole freightage of such vessels put here and fit out others like them"

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