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[[Thrissur]] (formerly Trichur) is a [[List of districts in Kerala|district of Kerala]] situated in the central part of that state in [[South India]]. Spanning an area of about {{cvt|3,032|km2}}, Thrissur district is home to over 9% of [[Kerala]]'s population.

Thrissur district is bordered by the districts of [[Palakkad district|Palakkad]] and [[Malappuram district|Malappuram]] to the north, and the districts of [[Ernakulam district|Ernakulam]] and [[Idukki district|Idukki]] to the south and [[Coimbatore district|Coimbatore]] to the east. The [[Arabian Sea]] lies to the west and [[Western Ghats]] stretches towards the east. It is part of the historical [[Malabar Coast]], which has been trading internationally since ancient times. The main language spoken is [[Malayalam language|Malayalam]].

Thrissur district was formed on 1 July 1949, with the headquarters at [[Thrissur City]]. Thrissur is known as the cultural capital of Kerala, and the land of [[Pooram]]s. The district is known for its ancient [[temple]]s, [[church (building)|churches]], and [[mosque]]s. [[Thrissur Pooram]] is the most colourful temple festival in Kerala. The town of [[Kunnamkulam]] is a particular centre of the Christian population. Per the [[2011 Indian Census]], [[Hinduism]] is the majority religion in Trissur, at 58.4%; Christians and Muslim form significant minorities.

==Etymology==
The word Kunnamkulam can be derived from the words kunnu (mountain) and kulam (ponds). There are several small hills in this area (Aduputty, Cherukunnu, Kizhoor, Kakkad Mission Kunnu, etc.) interspersed with the numerous ponds of the area (Eeenjakulam, Ayyankulam, Madurakulam, Chattukulam, etc.). One of the major spots within the town is the Parayil Angadi (market among rocks). The terrain condition and geological aspect of the area has led to the name. Kunnamkulam town has its own remote antiquity as is evident from the history. It was a part of Mahodayapattanam, the capital of Chera Dynasty.

History tells about the cross installed by [[Thomas the Apostle]], at Chattukulangara (a part of Arthat in Kunnamkulam). During the invasion of [[Tippu Sultan]] the [[Christians]] from Chattakulangara migrated to Kunnamkulam town. {{Citation needed|date=May 2021}}

Manakulam, Cheralayam and Kakkaad (the suburbs of Kunnamkulam) were the seats of the Nambidis of Manakulam, Ayinikur and Kakkad Karanavappad respectively. They were collectively known as Thalappilli Rajas and belonged to three branches of the same dynasty.

The history of Kunnamkulam goes back to the Paleolithic age. The Kakkaad cave and Chowannur cave support this fact. It is said that this place was part of ‘MahodayaPattanam’ and was known as ‘Kunnamkulangare’. [[C. Achutha Menon]] in the [[Cochin]] State Manual says that, “it is in fact the chief center of the Orthodox Christians of the State, and there are several of their old churches in the town and its neighborhood”.<ref name="The Problems and prospects of paper-based industry in Kunnamkulam">{{cite web |url=http://www.google.co.in/#hl=en&source=hp&biw=1225&bih=610&q=The+Development+Report%2C+Kunnamkulam%2C+1996&rlz=1W1GPCK_en&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=e791fe993fa412ba |title=The problems and prospects of paper-based industry in Kunnamkulam |publisher=Rajeev G |access-date=2010-12-04}}</ref>

Moreover, “Most of the oldest and wealthiest [[Christians|Christian]] families are to be found in Kunnamkulam”.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} Cheruvathoor, Pulikkottil, Chungath, Kollannoor, Panakkal, Mekkattukulam, Paramel, [[Thengungal]], Cheeran, Kanjirathingal, Moolapath, Tholath, Kakkassery and Emmatty are the most prominent among them. The competition for ascendancy between these wealthy families, opened up new dimensions in the development of printing and other literary activities. Panakkal Chakku, Cheru, Thengungal Ittoop, Varu and Koothur Paramel Iyyu Uttoop were arbitrators of some of these families. It is said that the Christian families were settled earlier at Chattukulangare shifted to Kunnamkulam after the invasion of Tippu in 1789. They were invited by the Thalappilli Rajas, provided residences and places of worship. They resided on both sides of the street. This may have helped to avoid threat from Tippu against Thalappilli Rajas.

Those settled on both sides of the street started trade and business, and began a new era of transaction.<ref name="The Problems and prospects of paper-based industry in Kunnamkulam"/>

===Etymology===
A cyber campaign was started that resulted in the changing of the often-misspelt name കുന്ദംകുളം (kundamkulam), to കുന്നംകുളം (kunnamkulam).

Apparently the wrong spelling " '''കുന്ദംകുളം(kundamkulam)''' " was being used for the city name on the Buses, Sign boards, Publications etc. This issue was brought into the social medias, where people unanimously opined to correct the spelling to കുന്നംകുളം kunnamkulam. This online debate further developed into a great discussion amongst the public and in all the other medias. The issue finally came in front of the Municipal Council meeting which laid down the rule to not use the wrong spelling കുന്ദംകുളം for കുന്നംകുളം anywhere.

==History of Kodungallur==
It is postulated that the ancient city of Muziris (Muchiripattinam, Mahodayapuram/Vanchi) was devastated by natural calamities—a flood or an earth quake—in 1341, and consequently lost its commercial importance thereafter.<ref name="Nandy2002">{{cite book|author=Ashis Nandy|title=Time Warps: Silent and Evasive Pasts in Indian Politics and Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xvD8Uov1kx0C&pg=PA172|access-date=28 August 2012|date=1 January 2002|publisher=Hurst|isbn=978-1-85065-479-7|pages=172–}}</ref> Further, it came under military attacks on various occasions: in 1504 by the [[Portuguese India|Portuguese]]-Kochi allied forces during their movement against Calicut in 1524, by the [[Malabar Muslims|Mappila]]s during their attack against the Portuguese, and in 1565 again by the Portuguese.

==Etymology==
The name Kodungallur is derived from ''Kodi-linga-ur'' ("the land of 10 million [[Shiva|Siva]][[Lingam|lingas]] ur-village") according to common belief. Kodungallur was perhaps the revenue collection center of Kuda-kons (the [[Chera dynasty|Chera]] rulers) for the goods coming to the nearby port, hence the name Kudakonallur, which later shortened to Kodungallur.

Historically, Kodungallur has been identified as ''Mahodaya Puram, Mahavanchimana Pattanam, Thrikulasekarapuram, Jangli, Gingaleh, Cyngilin, Shinkali, Chinkli, Jinkali, Shenkala, and Cynkali'', which are all derived from the name of the ''River Changala'' (or the Chain river, i.e., Shrinkhala in [[Sanskrit]]), a tributary of [[Periyar River|Periyar]].<ref>For a large number of such names for Kodungallir down the centuries arranged more or less chronologically cf. K. P. Padbhanabha Menon, History of Kerala Vol. I, quoted by George Menachery in ''Kodungallur'', 1987, reprinted 2000.</ref> ''Columguria, Kotilingapuram, Kudalingapuram, Kodunkaliyur, Thiruvallur, Ravivisvapuram and Balakreetapuram'' are a few other names, identified as Kodungallur in various related records or literary works.

==Chera period==
{{Main|Muziris}}
[[File:Hindu temple at Cranganore.jpg|250px|thumb|18th century depiction of the Hindu temple at Kodungallur]]
Kodungallur was an integral part of ''Mahodayapuram'', the capital city of the Later Chera dynasty.<ref name="Menon2007">{{cite book|author=A Sreedhara Menon|title=A Survey Of Kerala History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVsw35oEBv4C&pg=PA126|access-date=22 August 2012|date=1 January 2007|publisher=DC Books|isbn=978-81-264-1578-6|page=126}}</ref>

The Roman empire had a continuous trading connection with this region. Along with pepper, commodities such as pearls, muslin, ivory, diamond, silk and perfumes were exported using the maritime facilities of Kodungallur. Sulaiman, an Arab visitor to Mahodayapuram during this period, recorded the economic prosperity of the region and also testified to the high morals kept by its people. Also, he describes the Chinese traders in the city; they are described as purchasing articles such as pepper, cinnamon, ivory, pearls, cotton fabrics and teak wood, while selling fishing nets, silk and porcelain goods.<ref name="Menon">{{cite book|author=A Sreedhara Menon|title=A Survey Of Kerala History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVsw35oEBv4C&pg=PA126|access-date=22 August 2012|date=1 January 2007|publisher=DC Books|isbn=978-81-264-1578-6|pages=127}}</ref>

In the 11th century, Mahodayapuram (Now it is known as Kandanad) was captured by [[Rajendra Chola I]] of [[Chola]] dynasty. For the next few centuries, Kodungallur was a principality, named ''Padinjattedathu Swaroopam'', under the control of a royal family, ''[[Kodungallur Kovilakam]]'', allied either to kingdom of Cochin or to Calicut.<ref name="Menon2007"/> [[Muziris]] is supposed to be destroyed by massive [[flood]]ing of [[Periyar River|Periyar]] in the 14th century and consequently, the trade got diverted to other ancient ports of the Malabar coast, such as Kochi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.centreforheritagestudies.com/html/history.htm |title=History of Kochi |publisher=Centre For Heritage Studies, India |access-date=2010-09-05 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915105257/http://www.centreforheritagestudies.com/html/history.htm |archive-date=15 September 2015 }}</ref>

===The tradition of Thomas the Apostle===
{{Main|Thomas the Apostle}}
[[File:Thomasreliquiar Kondungallur.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Relic]] of St. Thomas, kept in the sanatorium of a [[Syro-Malabar|Syrian Church]] in Kodungallur]]
Traditional belief of [[Saint Thomas Christians]] of Kerala is that [[Thomas the Apostle]] landed in or around Kodungallur in the middle of the 1st century and founded [[Seven Churches of Saint Thomas|Seven Churches]], or ''Ezharapallikal'': Kodungallur, [[Niranam]], Nilackal ([[Chayal]]), [[Kokkamangalam]], [[Kottakkavu Mar Thoma Syro-Malabar Pilgrim Church, North Paravur|Kottakkavu]], [[Palayoor]] and [[Thiruvithamcode Arappally]]  – a "half church".<ref>{{cite book | title = The pastoral care of the Syro-Malabar Catholic migrants | author = James Arampulickal | publisher = Oriental Institute of Religious Studies, India Publications | year = 1994 | page = 40 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Orientalia christiana periodica: Commentaril de re orientali ...: Volumes 17–18 | publisher = Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum | year = 1951 | page = 233 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| author = Adrian Hastings| title = A World History of Christianity| date = 15 August 2000| publisher = Wm. B. Eerdmans| isbn = 978-0-8028-4875-8| page = 149 }}</ref> According to one view, a [[Cochin Jew]] colony in [[Malabar Coast]] (later named [[Anjuvannam]] near Kodungallur), probably established before the 6th century BC, attracted the Apostle to this region.<ref>{{cite book|author=Abraham Mattam (Mar))|title=Forgotten East: Mission, Liturgy and Spirituality of the Eastern Churches : a Study with Special Reference to the Church of St. Thomas Christians|year=2001|publisher=Ephrem's Publications|isbn=978-81-88065-00-4|pages=148}}</ref>

=== Cheraman Juma Masjid ===
{{Main|Cheraman Juma Masjid}}
The tradition holds that [[Cheraman Juma Masjid]] in Kodungallur, built in 629 AD by [[Malik Bin Deenar|Mālik bin Dīnār]], is the oldest mosque in India and the second oldest mosque in the world to offer [[Jumu'ah]] prayers.<ref name="LandisAlbert2012">{{cite book|author1=Dan Landis|author2=Rosita D. Albert|title=Handbook of Ethnic Conflict: International Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5EFihegRpmkC&pg=PA141|access-date=22 August 2012|date=14 February 2012|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4614-0447-7|pages=141}}</ref><ref name="BT">{{cite web
| publisher=Bahrain tribune
|url=http://www.bahraintribune.com/ArticleDetail.asp?CategoryId=4&ArticleId=49332
| title=World's second oldest mosque is in India
| access-date=2006-08-09
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060706220818/http://www.bahraintribune.com/ArticleDetail.asp?CategoryId=4&ArticleId=49332  |archive-date = 6 July 2006}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.islamicvoice.com/june.2004/miscellany.htm#cjm |title=Cheraman Juma Masjid A Secular Heritage |access-date=30 July 2016 |archive-date=26 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170726021445/http://www.islamicvoice.com/june.2004/miscellany.htm#cjm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Constructed during the lifetime of [[Muhammad]], the bodies of some of his original followers are said to be buried there.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.indiatraveltimes.com/travelogue/mosque.html
|title=A mosque from a Hindu king
|publisher=indiatravels
|access-date=2006-08-09}}</ref> Unlike other mosques in the region that face westwards this mosque faces east. The legend has it that a group of Muhammad's [[Sahaba|Ṣaḥāba]] (companions) visited Kodungallur. An unknown Chera dynasty ruler had witnessed a miraculous happening — the sudden [[splitting of the Moon]], the celebrated miracle of Muhammad — and learned on inquiry that this was a symbol of the coming of a Messenger of God from Arabia. Soon after, the Chera ruler traveled to [[Makkah]], where he embraced Islam, and accepted the name "Tajuddin". On his way back to India he died at [[Salalah]] in [[Oman]]. On his deathbed he is said to have authorised some of his Arab companions to go back to his kingdom to spread Islam. Accordingly, a group of Arabs led by Mālik bin Dīnār and Mālik bin Habib arrived in northern Chera kingdom and constructed the Cheraman Juma Masjid at Kodungalloor.<ref name="BT"/><ref name="arrival">{{cite web
| publisher=iosworld.org
| url=http://www.iosworld.org/interview_cheramul.htm
| title=Hindu patron of Muslim heritage site
| access-date=2006-08-09
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004005641/http://www.iosworld.org/interview_cheramul.htm
| archive-date=4 October 2018
| url-status=dead
}}</ref><ref name="hindu">{{cite news
|url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/23/stories/2005072306490500.htm
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061110190406/http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/23/stories/2005072306490500.htm
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=10 November 2006
| title=Kalam to visit oldest mosque in sub-continent
| access-date=2006-08-09
| location=Chennai, India
|work=[[The Hindu]]
| date=23 July 2005
}}
</ref>
[[File:Cape of Kodungallur.jpg|thumb|250px|Cape of Kodungallur, where [[Periyar River|Periyar]] empties into [[Arabian Sea]]. [[Chinese fishing nets]] in the beach, believed to be installed by 14th century Chinese explorer, [[Zheng He]], have also become a popular tourist attraction.<ref>{{cite book|author=Anjana Singh|title=Fort Cochin in Kerala, 1750-1830: The Social Condition of a Dutch Community in an Indian Milieu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LFy4pWUlnfwC&pg=PA233|access-date=29 August 2012|date=30 April 2010|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-16816-9|page=233}}</ref>]]

==Recent history==
The glory of Kodungallur, as a global trade centre, is believed to be destroyed by natural calamities.<ref name="Nandy2002"/> According to one view it was heavy floods in the river Periyar that destroyed the city in 1341, while others point out to an earth quake in this regard. The floods further split the left branch of the river into two, just before the city of [[Aluva]]. The flood silted the right branch (known as River Changala) and the natural harbour at the mouth of the river to make it poorly navigable for large ships. The misfortune of Kodungallur helped other major ports of Malabar coast, such as the one at Kochi, to rise to prominence.<ref name="Menon1">{{cite book|author=A Sreedhara Menon|title=A Survey Of Kerala History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVsw35oEBv4C&pg=PA126|access-date=22 August 2012|date=1 January 2007|publisher=DC Books|isbn=978-81-264-1578-6|page=18}}</ref>

===Colonial period===
During [[Portuguese India|Portuguese]] period, Kodungallur was a tributary state in the kingdom of [[Zamorin]], the most powerful of independent rulers of [[Malabar region]]. Since the location of Kodungallur sandwiched between the kingdom of Zamorin and the kingdom of Kochi, it was often a matter of dispute for both the kings and sometimes the chieftain of Kodungallur switched the allegiance.<ref name="Malekandathil2010">{{cite book|author=Pius Malekandathil|title=Maritime India: Trade, Religion and Polity in the Indian Ocean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rN69iFj1PJoC&pg=PA90|access-date=23 August 2012|year=2010|publisher=Primus Books|isbn=978-93-80607-01-6|pages=90–}}</ref> Portuguese landed in Calicut in 1498 and soon they reached in an agreement with the Zamorin for establishing their trade with his subjects and also to open a factory in Calicut. Nonetheless, Portuguese forces tried to establish monopoly in spice trade using violent methods against the Arabs and other Muslim merchants from the Middle East, who had a longstanding loyal relation with the Zamorin.<ref name="Subrahmanyam1998">{{cite book|author=Sanjay Subrahmanyam|title=The Career and Legend of Vasco Da Gama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AA3bu058pI4C&pg=PA294|access-date=26 July 2012|date=29 October 1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-64629-1|pages=293–294}}</ref> In fact, encouraged by foreign Muslims afraid of losing their monopoly on the spice trade (that also benefited the Venetians)Calicut was the only independent state in the Indian Ocean region at that time to militarily meet the Portuguese transgressions in the region, whereas Kochi opted to ally with the foreign Christians to contain the aggression of the Zamorin.<ref name="Malekandathil2010"/>

==Zamorin's period==
The tussle between Zamorin and Portuguese, though started arising in 1500, broke into the form of a regional war in 1504.<ref name="Malekandathil2010"/> Portuguese forces extended their attack on Calicut to allied coastal states, including Kodungallur. The town was almost completely destroyed by the Portuguese ([[Suarez de Menezes]]) on 1 September 1504.<ref name="Kaplan2008">{{cite book|author=Yosef Kaplan|title=The Dutch Intersection: The Jews and the Netherlands in Modern History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=syFFpCwBlacC&pg=PA65|access-date=23 August 2012|year=2008|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-14996-0|pages=65}}</ref>

Kodungallur, being a port city at the northern end of the [[Vembanad]] lagoon, was a strategic entry point for Zamorin's army and fleet into the [[Kerala backwaters]]. Hence, in October 1504 Zamorin dispatched a force to fortify Kodungallur. Reading this movement as a preparation for a renewed attack on Kochi, the Portuguese commander, Lopo Soares, ordered a [[preemptive strike]]. A squadron of around ten fighting ships, accompanied with numerous fighting boats of Kochi, headed up to Kodungallur. The heavier ships, unable to make their way into the shallow channels, anchored at [[Pallippuram, Ernakulam|Palliport]] (Pallipuram, on the outer edge of [[Vypin]] island), while smaller frigates progressed to the destination.

Converging on Kodungallur, the Portuguese-Kochi fleet quickly dispersed the Calicut forces on the beach using cannon, and launched their composite army – some 1,000 Portuguese soldiers and 1,000 [[Nair]] warriors of Kochi – who took on the rest of the enemy force in Kodungallur.<ref>Castanheda, p.272</ref> The assault troops captured and sacked the city of Kodungallur, and was set on fire by the squads led by Duarte Pacheco Pereira and Diogo Fernandes Correa. Nonetheless, according to some records, Portuguese arsonists spared the Saint Thomas Christian quarters in the city. (At the time the community was in a tenuous position: though thriving in the [[spice trade]] and protected by their own militia, the local political sphere was volatile and the Saint Thomas Christians had found themselves under pressure from the [[raja]]s of Calicut, Cochin and other small kingdoms in the area. Hence the community had sought an alliance with the Portuguese newcomers. Since they were one of the major suppliers of pepper in the region, Portuguese also found the relation as reciprocating.<ref>Frykenberg, Eric (2008). [https://books.google.com/books?id=sOrglHSX6rsC&q=%22Malankara+Church%22 ''Christianity in India: from Beginnings to the Present''], 122–124. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-826377-5}}.</ref>) This might have helped the ancient Christian community of Kodungallur from extinction during the 1504 assault on the city.

==Calicut fleet==
The Calicut fleet, some five ships and 80 ''paraus'', that had been dispatched to save the city was intercepted by the idling Portuguese ships near [[Pallippuram, Ernakulam|Palliport]] and defeated in a naval encounter.<ref>Mathew (1997: p.14)</ref> In the meantime, the [[raja]] of the [[Kingdom of Tanur]] (Vettattnad), whose kingdom lay to the north, on the road between Calicut and Kodungallur, who had a spoiled relation with the Zamorin, offered to place himself under Portuguese suzerainty. It is recorded that the military of Calicut, which was led by Zamorin in person, was defeated on their way to Kodungallur by a sizeable Portuguese army with the assistance of the Tanur ruler.

The raid on Cranganore and the defection of the Tanur raja were serious setbacks to the Zamorin of Calicut, pushing the frontline north and effectively placing the [[Vembanad]] lagoon out of the Zamorin's reach. The battle set the scene for Portuguese to expand their colonial authority over a significant area of the Malabar coast. By 1510, their fluid power in the Malabar coast solidified into a perceptible territorial entity.<ref name="Malekandathil2010"/>

In 1662, the [[Dutch India|Dutch]] entered the competition, sacked the Portuguese in a fortnightly war, with the help of Zamorin, and occupied Kodungallur.<ref name="Kusuman1987">{{cite book|author=K. K. Kusuman|title=A History of Trade & Commerce in Travancore, 1600–1805|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qbNuyHswr1cC|access-date=28 August 2012|year=1987|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-026-0}}</ref> The Dutch took the control of ''Kodungallur fort'' in 1663 and it eventually protected the southern Kerala, especially [[Travancore]], from the [[Mysorean invasion of Kerala|Mysorean invasion]] in 1776. In 1786, Mysorean troops again marched to northern Kerala, but failed to progress ahead of Kodungallur. On 31 July 1789, the Dutch handed over their establishments in Kodungallur and Azhikode to the ''Kingdom of Travancore'' for 300,000 Surat silver rupees.<ref>{{cite book|author=Anjana Singh|title=Fort Cochin in Kerala, 1750-1830: The Social Condition of a Dutch Community in an Indian Milieu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LFy4pWUlnfwC&pg=PA240|access-date=28 August 2012|date=30 April 2010|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-16816-9|pages=86, 149, 158}}</ref>

==Archaeology==
Until the 1980s, it was generally believed that Kodungallur and ''Muziris'' were synonymous from the historical point of view. In 1983, a large hoard of Roman coins was excavated at a site in a small town, called ''[[Pattanam]]'', about six miles from Kodungallur. Now this location is one of the most significant archaeological sites in [[South Asia]]. The excavations carried out at Pattanam from 2007 to 2011 have uncovered a plethora of archaeologically important materials: over 20,000 articles have now been recovered including terracotta objects, beads, amphora pieces, cannonballs and four skeletons.<ref name="times1">{{cite news| url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Largest-book-on-archaeological-findings-in-state-to-be-unveiled-at-Kodungallur-North-Paravur-getting-ready/articleshow/11187070.cms | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510221302/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-12-21/kochi/30541718_1_objects-largest-book-mhp | url-status=live | archive-date=10 May 2013 | work=[[The Times of India]] | title=Largest book on Archaeological findings | date=21 December 2011}}</ref> It has prompted many historians to hypothesize Pattanam as the location of ''Muziris''.<ref name="news.bbc.co.uk">{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4970452.stm | work=BBC News | title=Search for India's ancient city | date=11 June 2006 | access-date=2010-05-19}}</ref><ref name="hinduonnet.com">{{Cite web |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/03/23/stories/2004032303340500.htm |title=The Hindu : Archaeologists stumble upon Muziris |access-date=30 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100809101723/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/03/23/stories/2004032303340500.htm |archive-date=9 August 2010 |url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/lf/2004/03/28/stories/2004032800050200.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040527011524/http://www.hindu.com/lf/2004/03/28/stories/2004032800050200.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=27 May 2004 | location=Chennai, India | work=[[The Hindu]] | title=Hunting for Muziris | date=28 March 2004}}</ref><ref name="hindu.com">{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/04/01/stories/2007040106021000.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080306053600/http://www.hindu.com/2007/04/01/stories/2007040106021000.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=6 March 2008 | location=Chennai, India | work=[[The Hindu]] | title=Excavations highlight Malabar maritime heritage | date=1 April 2007}}</ref>

===Kodungallur fort===
[[File:Cranganorefort.jpg|thumb|250px|right| Relics of the [[Cranganore Fort]] built by the Portuguese on the shores of the Kottapuram River]]
[[Cranganore Fort]], also known as ''Kottappuram/Kottapuram Fort'', was built by Portuguese in 1523 and later in 1565 it was enlarged. The fort was named as Fortaleza Sao Tome, by the Portuguese. The [[Dutch India|Dutch]] took possession of the fort in 1663. The remains of the fort show that the original fort wall was 18 feet in thickness. The ruin is also known as Tipu's fort.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.keralatourism.org/muziris/kottappuram-fort.php | title=Kottappuram fort | publisher=Kerala Tourism Department | work=muzirisheritage.org | access-date=24 August 2012 | archive-date=1 March 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301004640/http://www.keralatourism.org/muziris/kottappuram-fort.php | url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Muziris Heritage Project===
A project, named ''Muziris Heritage Project'', was launched by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Kerala in 2006 to scientifically retrieve and preserve the historical heritage of the region, extending from North Paravur to Kodungallur. The project envisages a combination of heritage management initiatives in its restoration, conservation and access to the public. Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR), identified as the nodal agency for Muziris Heritage Project, provides academic guidance and undertakes archaeological and historical research in the region.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://keralahistory.ac.in/researchprojects.htm |title=Kerala Council for Historical Research |access-date=30 July 2016 |archive-date=2 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502083309/http://keralahistory.ac.in/researchprojects.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> The first phase of Muziris Heritage Project was opened to the nation by HE the president of India Shri. Pranab Mukharjee on 27 February 2016 at Kodungalloor.

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