According to a 2001 survey, there were 1, 863 newspapers published in Tamil, of which 353 were dailies.

According to the Dravidian scholars Bhadriraju Krishnamurti and Kamil Zvelebil, Kannada and Tamil split into independent languages from the proto Tamil-Kannada sub-group around 5th-6th.

According to Iraiyanar Agapporul, a 10th / 11th century annotation on the Sangam literature, the Tamil country extended southwards beyond the natural boundaries of the Indian peninsula comprising 49 ancient nadus ( divisions ).

According to a BBC article, Jeremy Corbyn along with John McDonnell have signed a petition Calling on UK to lift the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam-which is registered as a terrorist group by the European Union.

According to the Puranas, Shakti worshipped Shiva in the form of a peacock, which is why the vernacular name Mylai () was given to the area that developed around the temple-mayil is Tamil for " peacock ".

According to George L. Hart, who holds the endowed Chair in Tamil Studies by University of California, Berkeley, has written that the legend of the Tamil Sangams or " literary assemblies: was based on the Jain sangham at Madurai:

According to historian Venkatraman, the work covers almost every feature of the Tamil siddha cult.

: According to the table of casualties on the 10, 749 casualties were confirmed on 18 January 2005, most of them in the state of Tamil Nadu.

According to Mattakallappu Manmiyam ( மட ் டக ் களப ் ப ு ம ா ன ் ம ி யம ்) the word Mattakkallpu consists Tamil words " Mattu " ( மட ் ட ு) means honey or Matta-derived from " Mattam " ( மட ் டம ்) means ' flat ' and geographical name KaLappu.

According to this report, the five states with largest power demand and availability, as of May 2011, were Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.

According to tradition, the Karkathar migrated from the Gangetic plains and over time spread over the entire macro region of present day Tamil Nadu.

According to Peter Schalk a professor of theology from University of Uppsala who has done studies on Sri Lankan Tamils and their culture, Caldwell and the Madras Tamil lexicon were wrong in deriving Eelam from Sihala.

According to the great Tamil commentator Atiyarkkunallar ( 12-13th century CE ), poems were of two kinds-col-totar-nilai-seyyul ( Tamil: ச ொ ல ் த ொ டர ் ந ி ல ை ச ெ ய ் ய ு ள ், poems connected by virtue of their formal properties ) and porul-totar-nilai-seyyul ( Tamil: ப ொ ர ு ள ் த ொ டர ் ந ி ல ை ச ெ ய ் ய ு ள ், poems connected by virtue of content that forms a unity ).

According to the book, Akilam, Hari Gopalan Citar wrote this book on the twenty-seventh day of the Tamil month of Karthikai ( November / December ) in the year 1841 CE.

According to Balan, they speak " a mix of Tamil and Malayalam " at home, but she is also well versed in Hindi, Marathi, English and Bengali.

According to the Gazetteer of the Trichinopoly District, Vol II, 1931, p 67, " the traditional meeting place of the three Tamil kingdoms was the temple of Cellānti Amman on the banks of the Kāvēri, twelve miles west of Kulittalai and three miles below the junction of the Amarāvati and the Kāvēri.

According to the Indian Readership Survey 2006 Kungumam emerged as the top-selling Tamil weekly magazine overtaking historical market leaders like Kumudam and Ananda Vikatan.

According to the Purana, Lord Shiva helped the Tamil saints Sambandhar and Appar to provide relief from the famine.

According Tamil poets he made several victories ( including the Battle of Pazhi ) over the Cheras.

According to P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar, the sages Apastamba and Baudhayana whose sūtras or legislations are followed today by Tamil Brahmins lived in the Telugu-speaking territories to the immediate north of the Tamil country even before the Sangam period.

According to legend, Ambrose immediately and forcefully stopped Arianism in Milan.

According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.

According to legend, Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death.

According to a version of the Ariadne legend noted by Plutarch, Theseus abandoned Ariadne at Amathousa, where she died giving birth to her child and was buried in a sacred tomb.

According to the legend, it was where festive Adonia took place, in which athletes competed in hunting wild boars during sport competitions ; they also competed in dancing and singing, all to the honour of Adonis.

According to legend, this prompted Ananda to focus his efforts on the attainment of nibbana and he was able to reach the specified level of attainment before the calling of the conclave.

According to popular legend, his raiders gained access to the walled town with the aid of a local woman who sympathised with the rebellion, letting a small party in via the Market Street gate at midnight.

* Nicholas of Flue ( According to legend, he survived for nineteen years with no food except for the Eucharist.

According to the Aztec legend, Aztlán is a region ; Chicano nationalists have equated it with the Southwestern United States.

According to legend, the cross was erected over the kistvaen ( burial chamber ) of Childe the Hunter, who was Ordulf, son of Ordgar, an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Devon in the 11th century.

According to a legend, it is derived from the Forefather Čech, who brought the tribe of Czechs into its land.

According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6: 1-4 " is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology ", and the " sons of God " mentioned in that passage are " celestial beings of mythology ".

According to a Sinhalese legend, Kandyan dances originated 250 years ago, from a magic ritual that broke the spell on a bewitched king.

According to one authority ( a legend on the 1489 map of Henricus Martellus Germanus ), Cão died off Cape Cross ; but João de Barros and others wrote of his return to the Congo, and subsequent taking of a native envoy to Portugal.

According to legend, the publication of his poem Hymn to the Pillory caused his audience at the pillory to throw flowers instead of the customary harmful and noxious objects and to drink to his health.

According to the legend Orestes founded Nemi together with Iphigenia.

According to the legend the flag, Dannebrog, was given to the Danes from God himself, and from that day forward, it was the flag of Denmark and the Danish kings.

According to British legend ( see: Historia Brittonum ) the territory known later as Essex was ceded by the Britons to the Saxons following the infamous Brad y Cyllyll Hirion event which occurred ca.

According to a well-known legend, Hengist and Horsa, two brothers, landed in 449 as mercenaries for a British king, Vortigern.

According to a Jewish legend, one of the Essenes, named Menachem, had passed at least some of his mystical knowledge to the Talmudic mystic Nehunya ben HaKanah, to whom the Kabbalistic tradition attributes Sefer HaBahir and, by some opinions, Sefer HaKanah, Sefer HaPeliah and Sefer HaTemunah.

According to the legendary account in the Kojiki, Emperor Jimmu would have been born on 13 February 711 BC ( the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar ), and died, again according to legend, on 11 March 585 BC ( both dates according to the lunisolar traditional Japanese calendar ).

According to legend, he was the first Japanese emperor to drink tea.

According to one version of the legend, Chūai's son was born three years after the death of Chūai, which lends further support to the notion that the stories surrounding him are based on myth rather than actual events.

According to legend, Dolley Madison was referred to as " First Lady " in 1849 at her funeral in a eulogy delivered by President Zachary Taylor.

According to the Polish Kabbalist, " the legend was known to several persons, thus allowing us to speculate that the legend had indeed circulated for some time before it was committed to writing and, consequently, we may assume that its origins are to be traced to the generation immediately following the death of R. Eliyahu, if not earlier.