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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Lakkidi
| native_name = Lakkidi Perur
| native_name_lang = ലക്കിടി േപരൂര്
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| settlement_type = Village
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| image_caption = Mahadeva Temple, Killikkurussimangalam
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Kerala, India
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| subdivision_name1 = [[Kerala]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Palakkad district|Palakkad]]
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| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Malayalam language|Malayalam]], [[English language|English]]
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 679301
| area_code_type = Telephone code
| area_code = 0466 2230000
| registration_plate = KL-51,KL-9
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| blank1_info_sec1 = Ottapalam
| blank2_name_sec1 = Literacy
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'''Lakkidi''' or '''Lakkidi Perur''' is a small village in Ottapalam Taluk of [[Palakkad]] district, [[Kerala]], [[India]]. It is located 23 km west of Palakkad on the [[Palakkad]] - [[Pattambi]] Road. The nearest town is Ottapalam, which is 10 km away. Lakkidi is situated 303 km from the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram. The pin code of Lakkidi Post Office is 679301 and the STD code is 0466.

==History==
This place was originally part of the [[Valluvanad (southern Malabar)|Valluvanad Swaroopam]] dynasty.<ref name="princelystatesofindia1">{{Cite web |url=http://princelystatesofindia.com/Extinguished/walluwanad.html |title=princelystatesofindia.com |access-date=19 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316023437/http://princelystatesofindia.com/Extinguished/walluwanad.html |archive-date=16 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Valluvanad was an erstwhile [[Medieval India|late medieval]] feudal state in present state of [[Kerala]] in [[South India]] extending from the [[Bharathapuzha River]] in the south to the [[Pandalur]] Mala in the north during their zenith in the early Middle Ages. On the west, it was bounded by the [[Arabian Sea]] at the [[port]] [[Ponnani]] and on the east by [[Attappadi]] Hills.

==Legends==
According to local legends, the last Later [[Later Chera Dynasty|Chera]] ruler gave a vast extension of land in South [[Malabar (Northern Kerala)|Malabar]] to one of their governors, [[Valluvakkonithiri]] and left for a [[hajj]]. The Valluvakkonithiri was also given last Later Chera ruler's shield (presumably to defend himself from the sword received by the [[Samoothiri]] (Zamorin) of [[Kozhikode]], another [[governor]], from the departing ruler). Not surprisingly, the [[Vellatiri]] rajas were hereditary enemies of the [[Samoothiri]].<ref name="princelystatesofindia1"/> Valluvanad is famous for the [[Mamankam festival]]s, held once in 12 years and the endless wars against the [[Samoothiri]] of Kozhikode. By the late 18th century, Vellatiri or Walluwanad proper was the sole remaining territory of the Walluvanad raja (Valluva Konatiri), who once exercised suzerain rights over a large portion of Southern Malabar. Although management of the country was restored to the Vellatiri raja in 1792, it soon became evident that he was powerless to repress the trouble that quickly broke out between Mapillas (favored by the Mysorean occupiers) and nayars (who sought to restore the ancien régime), and already in 1793 management of the district had to be resumed as the chief and his family fled to Travancore.<ref name="princelystatesofindia1"/>

==References==
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{{Palakkad district}}
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[[Category:Villages in Palakkad district]]

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->Kambliyil at 10:58, 6 July 2020