During the 17th and 18th centuries AD, Mayiladuthurai was ruled by the Thanjavur Marathas who invited Brahmins from the Telugu, Kannada and Maratha countries to settle in the region and gave large amounts of land to them.

In 1799, Mayiladuthurai, was ceded to the British East India Company, along with the rest of the Thanjavur Maratha kingdom, by the Thanjavur Maratha ruler Serfoji II.

When the Tanjore district was trifurcated in 1991, Mayiladuthurai was transferred to the newly-formed Nagapattinam district.

According to local folklore, Mayiladuthurai was associated with Hindu holy men called " Sithars ".

Krishnamurthy was born at Puttamangalam near Mayiladuthurai in the old Thanjavur district in an orthodox, large Brahmin family with limited means.

He resigned from service in 1989 to take up a career in politics and media, entering the Parliament as a Congress M. P from Mayiladuthurai in 1991, 1999 and 2004 but was defeated in 1996, 1998 and 2009.

While previously known by its Sanskrit name Mayuram meaning " peacock town ", the town has been recently de-Sanskritized to its Tamil translation Mayiladuthurai as a result of a petition by the Mayuram municipality to the Government of Tamil Nadu in the wake of the Dravidian Movement.

Mayiladuthurai is one of the 274 holy places mentioned by the Saivite saints called Nayanmars in their songs.

In the first half of the 20th century, the temples of Rameswaram, Kalahasti, Kalayar Koil, Thiruvengadu, Thiruvadanai, Thirupunavasal, Thiru Yedagam, Thiruvisainallur, Thiruvarur, Seerkazhi, Thirukkolakka, Nalla Koorur, Thiruvanmiyur, Mayiladuthurai, Thiruvidaimaruthur, Thiruchuli, Courtallam, Thievennainallur, Kandadevi, Kottur, Pennagaram ( now Pennadam ) were all converted to stone structures in whole or part by pious Nagarathar families of Devakottai.

Mayiladuthurai is of great antiquity, its oldest extant temples dating to the time of the Medieval Cholas.

Mayiladuthurai is situated at distance of 281 kilometres south-west of Chennai, 70 kilometres north-east of Thanjavur and 50 kilometres north-west of Nagapattinam.

The Thanjavur Nayak king Rajagopala Nayak constructed mandapams in Mayiladuthurai.

* Rameswaram – Varanasi Express via, Trichy, Thanjavur, Mayiladuthurai, Chidambaram, Cuddalore

Mayiladuthurai prospered under British rule emerging as an important town in Tanjore district.

All the Hindu holy rivers in India are believe to converge in Mayiladuthurai every year on New moon day in the Tamil month of Aippasi ( November-December ).

Other excavations in India at Vaisali, Bihar and Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu have been claimed to contain Indus symbols being used as late as 1100 BC.

The climate of Mayiladuthurai is similar to the climate prevailing in the rest of the Cauvery Delta.

Mayiladuthurai is a town in the Nagapattinam District of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

It is the headquarters of the Mayiladuthurai taluk of Nagapattinam district and is the second-largest town in the district.

Mayiladuthurai gets its name from the peahen form in which the Hindu goddess Parvathi worshipped the god Shiva at this place.

Mayiladuthurai is of considerable antiquity and cultural and religious significance.

Currently, Mayiladuthurai forms a grade I municipality.

Mayiladuthurai gets its name from the Mayura or Mayil ( peacock ) form in which the Hindu goddess Parvathi worshipped the Hindu god Shiva at this place.

Sherds of megalithic black and red ware have been found at Akkur, 14 kilometres to the east of Mayiladuthurai.

There have been references to Mayiladuthurai in the works of the 7th century Saivite saint Campantar.

Carnatic musicians Madurai Mani Iyer and Gopalakrishna Bharathi and Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai, who wrote the first Tamil novel Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram were born in Mayiladuthurai while Tamil writer Kalki Krishnamurthy studied at the Municipal High School in Mayiladuthurai.

To this day, a neighbourhood of Mayiladuthurai is called Sitharkadu.

important Hindu temples in Mayiladuthurai.

He represented the Mayiladuthurai constituency of Tamil Nadu in the 14th Lok Sabha. He is currently a nominated member of parliament from rajya sabha.

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