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8 unusual facts about Malabar Coast


1698 in piracy

January 30 - Captain William Kidd plunders the Quedagh Merchant, an Armenian merchant vessel sailing under French passes, near the Malabar Coast.

Ecclesiastical history of Braga

He had been an apostle to the Nestorians of the Malabar Coast in Farther India and had converted them to Catholicism with the help of missionaries of the various religious orders.

Fort Kochi

Written documents about the Malabar Coast show that this region had Hindus, Christians, and a Jewish minority.

Lascar

Vasco da Gama, the first European to reach India by sea (in 1498), hired an Indian pilot at Malindi (a coastal settlement in what is now Kenya) to steer the Portuguese ship across the Indian Ocean to the Malabar Coast in southwestern India.

Malabar Coast

The Irish folksong Coast of Malabar, performed by Tommy Makem and The Chieftains among others, is a lilting romantic air.

Roy Moxham

His third book, Malabar Dreams, looks at the earliest European settlers in India, from the time Vasco da Gama landed on the Malabar Coast, to the time the British established a strong foothold.

Thomé Lopes

According to Lopes, their squadron caught up with the main armada on August 21, 1502 at Anjediva Island, off the Malabar Coast of India.

Vicente Sodré

However, before his departure, Vasco da Gama ordered his uncles to keep the patrol near the Malabar Coast of India, to protect the Portuguese-allied cities of Cochin and Cannanore from any vengeful attacks by the Zamorin of Calicut.


Hinduism in Goa

In the 16th century most Hindus fled the Portuguese territories to the territories held by the Hindu rajas of Sonde and the Canara and Malabar Coast where significant communities of Konkani Goan Hindus still survive until today.Very few Hindus continued to exist in the Portuguese held Velha conquistas.

Jiaozhi

Jiāozhǐ, pronounced Kuchi in the Malay, became the "Cochin-China" of the Portuguese traders circa 1516, who so named it to distinguish it from the city and princely state of Cochin in India, their first headquarters in the Malabar Coast.

John Campbell of Stonefield

Forces under his command thereafter stormed the fort of Anantapur on the Malabar coast.

Malabar large-spotted civet

In the 19th century, Malabar civets occurred throughout the Malabar coast from the latitude of Honore to Cape Comorin.

Maruthoor

Though members of this family have migrated to different parts of Kerala (in the south-west region of India on the Malabar coast Malabar Coast), the main area of settlement is still found in and around Keezhuvaipur, Mallappally, Paduthodu and Valakuzhy.

Pêro Vaz de Caminha

The 2nd Armada arrived on the Malabar Coast of India in September 1500, and the factory was promptly set up in Calicut (Calecute, Kozhikode).

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Braga

He had been appointed bishop to the St. Thomas Christians of the Malabar Coast in Farther India and had forcibly Latinized them with the help of missionaries of the various religious orders.

Thangal

Thangals are supposed to be descended from Sayyid families, who migrated from the historic city of Tarim, in Hadramawt Province, Yemen, during the 17th century in order to propagate Islam on the Malabar Coast.


see also

Devadasi

Gough Kathleen, "Female Initiation Rites on the Malabar Coast", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, No. 85, 1952.

INS Malpe

INS Malpe an Indian Naval minesweeper, named after a port in Malabar coast Malpe.

INS Malvan

INS Malvan was an Indian Naval minesweeper, named after a port in Malabar coast Malvan.

Lepidoptera Indica

Moore also noted the contributions of Sir Walter Elliot from the Madras region, S. Nevill(e) Ward for notes from the Malabar coast, W. S. Atkinson, A E Russell, Colonel A M Lang (Oudh, Kashmir, Simla), Captain T. Hutton (Mussoorie), Captain H. L. de la Chaumette (Lucknow), C. Horne, Dr Francis Day, W. Forsyth Hunter, Major J. Le Mesurier, Major-Gen.