* Calicut Medical College, a medical school in Kozhikode

Calicut Medical College is a premier medical college located in the city of Kozhikode ( Calicut ) in Kerala, India.

The vast and sprawling Medical College complex is spread over an extensive area of 270 acres ( 1. 1 km² ) and is located about 10 km east from the heart of Calicut city.

The Calicut Medical College also has a strong alumni Association.

The Calicut Medical College Alumni Association takes an active role in the academic and co-curricular advancements.

The Alumni association supports the Calicut Medical Journal.

Calicut Medical College also publishes the Calicut Medical Journal and the Journal of Orthopaedics.

The Asian Student Medical Journal was started at Calicut Medical College in 2003.

* History of Medical Education in Calicut

* An un-official Website of Calicut Medical College

* Website of the CMC Network, an e-network of alumnus of Calicut Medical College

* The Students Blog of Calicut Medical College

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* Markaz Unani Medical College & Hospital, Calicut, India

Through its connection with Calicut Medical College and other clinics in the state of Kerala, the institute supports between 4, 500 and 5, 000 patients per week.

This institute is an organ of Pain and Palliative Care Society, Medical College, Calicut, which was founded in 1993.

* Calicut Medical Journal

It is 535 km from Chennai ( via Salem, Erode ), 80 km from Coimbatore, 18 km from Coonoor, 155 km from Mysore ( via Gudalur ), 187 km from Calicut, 290 km from Bangalore, 281 km from Kochi ( via Coimbatore and Palakkad ), 236 km from Kodaikanal ( via Coimbatore and Palani ).

It is described that the ruler of Calicut ( Zamorin ) has a murti of Deumus in his temple inside his royal palace.

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Popular belief is that Kathakali is emerged from " Krishnanattam ", the dance drama on the life and activities of Lord Krishna created by Sri Manavedan Raja, the Zamorin of Calicut ( 1585-1658 AD ).

TIA is considered as an " all weather " airport in the country and is ISO 9001-2000 certified. Owing to this many flights from Cochin and Calicut are diverted here when ever weather hinders visibility in the respective airports.

It is affiliated to the University of Calicut and Kerala University of Health Sciences and serves 40 % of the population of Kerala.

The college is around 10 km east from Calicut Railway station and around 30 kilometers from Calicut International Airport.

The National Institute of Technology Calicut ( NITC ),( malayalam: ന ാ ഷണൽ ഇൻസ ് റ ് റ ി റ ് റ ് യ ൂ ട ് ട ് ഓഫ ് ട െ ക ് ന ോ ളജ ി ക ാ ല ി ക ് കറ ് റ ്‌ ), formerly the Calicut Regional Engineering College ( CREC ), is a federally funded technical university and an institute of national importance governed by an act passed by the Parliament of India.

The campus is situated 22 km north-east of Kozhikode ( Calicut ) city on the Calicut – Mukkam Road.

This is conglomerate diversification of NIT Calicut.

There is a private and a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation bus stand in Guruvayur which run inter-state, inter-district and city services. There are good frequency of buses from Palakkad, Calicut also

Calicut International Airport at Karipur is about 100 KM away.

It is affiliated to the University of Calicut.

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 king.

Just nine years later in 1497 on the orders of Manuel I of Portugal, four vessels under the command of navigator Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope, continuing to the eastern coast of Africa to Malindi to sail across the Indian Ocean to Calicut in south India-the capital of the local Zamorin rulers. The wealth of the Indies was now open for the Europeans to explore ; the Portuguese Empire was the earliest European seaborne empire to grow from the spice trade.

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.

According to his website, three extended periods of his fasting have been observed under control of scientific and medical teams, the first lasting 211 days in 1995 – 96, in Calicut, India, under the direction of Dr C. K. Ramachandran.

A depiction of Kozhikode | Calicut, India published in 1572 during Portugal's control of the pepper trade

* Kerala Sanchari ( edited by Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, otherwise known as Vadakkan Kesari, and published by the Spectator Press, Calicut )

Originally from the city of Kozhikode, Kerala, India ( known by Europeans as Calicut in the 11th century ).

Lured by the potential of high profits from another expedition, the Portuguese established a permanent base south of the Indian trade port of Calicut in the early 15th century.

* May 20 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut ( now Kozhikode ), India, becoming the first European to get there by sailing around Africa, thus discovering the maritime route to India.

Nevertheless, this lesson was slow to sink in and at first the VOC made the strategic decision to improve its military position on the Malabar Coast ( hoping thereby to curtail English influence in the area, and end the drain on its resources from the cost of the Malabar garrisons ) by using force to compel the Zamorin of Calicut to submit to Dutch domination.

On the Asiatic mainland the first trading stations were established by Pedro Álvares Cabral at Cochin and Calicut ( 1501 ); more important were the conquests of Goa ( 1510 ) and Malacca ( 1511 ) by Afonso de Albuquerque, and the acquisition of Diu ( 1535 ) by Martim Afonso de Sousa.

The violent treatment meted out by Gama quickly brought trade along the Malabar Coast of India, upon which Calicut depended, to a standstill.

This shift was caused by the successful circumnavigation of Africa opening up sea-trade with the east: after Portugal's Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and landed in Calicut, India in May 1498, a new path of eastern trade was possible ending the monopoly of the Ottoman Turks and their European allies, the Italian city-states.

In 1498, Vasco da Gama became the first person to reach India by sailing around Africa ( see Age of Discovery ); asked by Arabs in Calicut ( who spoke Spanish and Italian ) why they had come, his representative replied, " we seek Christians and spices ".

Travancore became the most powerful state in the Kerala region by defeating the Zamorin of Calicut in a battle at Purakkad.

Land was reached at Anjadip, an island frequented by ships to obtain supplies on their way to Calicut.

Thinking that the attack was the result of unauthorized incitement by jealous Arab merchants, Cabral waited 24 hours for an explanation from the ruler of Calicut, but no apology was forthcoming.

The letter from King Manuel I brought by Cabral to the ruler of Calicut, which was translated by the ruler's Arab interpreters, sought the exclusion of Arab traders.

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 found themselves under pressure from the rajas of Calicut and Cochin and other small kingdoms in the area.

The Zamorin of Calicut became the most powerful of the Kings in the region by the 13th century primarily due to flourishing international trade at Calicut and Beypore port.

When the Portuguese arrived in India at Kozhikode ( Calicut ) on the Malabar Coast ( Kerala ) in 1498, the Malayalam name chakka was recorded by Hendrik van Rheede ( 1678 – 1703 ) in the Hortus Malabaricus, vol.

In 1524, the Muslims, backed by the ruler of Calicut ( today called Kozhikode and not to be confused with Calcutta ), attacked these wealthy Jews of Cranganore on the pretext that they had an advantage with the pepper trade.

Matters worsened when the Portuguese factory at Calicut was attacked by surprise by the locals, resulting in the death of more than fifty Portuguese.