Sankaracharya was a contemporary of the great Tamil saint Kulashekhara Alwar who was also a Chera king.

Nedum Cheralathan was a Chera king of the Sangam period in ancient South India, contemporary to the Chola ruler Perunarkilli.

Ayyan Atikal Tiruvatikal, who issued the famous Tharisapalli plates ( Third Quilon copper plate, Tharissapalli Deed I or Kottayam plate ) of 849 AD for the Later Chera king to Isodatta Virai for Tharissapalli ( church ) at Curakkeni Kollam, was the governor of Venad under Sthanu Ravi Varman.

Mention is made of Rayiran Chathan, the governor of Valluvanad, as a witness in the Jew's Copper Plate (" Joothasasanam ") of 1000 CE given to Joseph Rabban by Bhaskara Ravi Varma I, the Chera ( Kulasekhara ) King of Mahodayapuram. William Logan is of the opinion that Vellaattiri was also not directly under the Chera kings but enjoyed more freedom and rights than other chieftains under them.

Bhaskara Ravi Varman II appears to have assisted Bhaskara Ravi Varman I in ruling his Chera Kingdom as his co-regent probably from Udagai in the Kongunad.

Sangramadheeran, or Kulasekhara Ravi Varma, crowned himself " Tribhuvanachakravarthi "- ruler of Chera, Chola and Pandya kingdoms in 1312 at Kanchipuram.

The earliest attested form of writing in South India is inscriptions found in caves, associated with the Chalukya and Chera dynasties.

* " Pattini dheivam " worship is inaugurated in Kannagi Temple in Chera Kingdom in South India, by Emperor Cenkuttuvan ; the function is attended by GajaBahu, king of Central Srilanka ( Mahavamso ).

Thus, Rama Varma Kulasekara, the last emperor of Chera dynasty, is probably the founder of the Venad royal house, and the the title of Chera kings, Kulasekara, was thenceforth kept by the rulers of Venad.

The early political history of Thrissur is interlinked with that of the Chera Dynasty of the Sangam age, who ruled over vast portions of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Since the early BCE, urbanization and mercantile activity along the western and eastern coast of what is today Kerala and Tamil Nadu led to the development of four large Tamil political states ( Chera, Chola, Pandya and Pallavas ) and a number of small petty states warring amongst themselves for dominance.

He is reputed to be the brother of Senguttuvan from Chera dynasty.

* Kodungallur Bhagavathy Temple: It is believed to have been constructed during the reign of Chera King, Cheran Senkuttuvan.

It is also believed that Mar Abo actually volunteered to the Chera king to create a new sea port town near at Kollam instead of his request for renewing the almost vanishing Tyndis or Nelcynda inland sea port ( kore-ke-ni ) at Kollam, lying idle without trade for a few centuries because of the Cheras being overrun by pallavas in the 6th century AD ending the spice trade from Malabar coast.

There is an oft-recited legend that the last Perumal ( king from the Chera dynasty ) who ruled the Chera dynasty divided his kingdom between his nephews and his sons, converted to Islam and traveled to Mecca on a hajj.

There are large gaps in the known early history of the Kerala region, which in the 1st-century AD is thought to have been governed by the Chera dynasty and which by the late 3rd-century AD had broken up, possibly as a consequence of a decline in trade with the Romans.

It is believed that Kulasekhara Varman Cheraman Perumal, an ancient king of Tamil Chera dynasty, who ruled from Mahodayapuram ( modern Kodungallur ), reformed Koodiyattam, introducing the local language for Vidusaka and structuring presentation of the play to well-defined units.

He is considered as the second known Chera King as per the literary works during Sangam period, and particularly in the Second Ten of Pathirruppaththu.

Kallidaikurichi is on the border between the Pandya and the Chera countries of the past.

Narayanan is often regarded as the primary material in Later Chera studies.

Chera is also referred to as Kongan many times.

Ilango Adigal was born in the Chera dynasty that ruled parts of what is now known as Kerala, but formed part of the Tamil Land.

Two inscriptions at Kalladaikurichi suggest that in medieval times the Nadars served as administrators and accountants in both the Chera and Pandya countries.

There are no written records on these earlier divisions of Kerala, but according to some historians the division might have occurred during the Second Chera Kingdom at the beginning of 12th century.

Cheraman Perumal Juma Masjid, believed to have been built upon the request of an unknown Chera dynasty ruler and probably the first Mosque in India

There are no written records on these earlier divisions of Kerala, but according to historian Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai, a division might have occurred during the Second Chera Kingdom, at the beginning of 12th century.

The two monks received a Royal sanction called " Tarsish-a-palli " near " Korukenikollam " from Chera ruler Rajashekara varman Ayyanadikal Thiruvadikal, as described on the Tharisapalli plates.

The Valluvakkonithiri was also given last Later Chera ruler's shield ( presumably to defend himself from the sword received by the Samoothiri ( Zamorin ) of Kozhikkode, another governor, from the departing ruler ).

The second Chera Empire received the socio-political support of the Namboothiri Brahmins and vice versa.

He hailed from the Kingdom of Thrippappur, one of the branches of the Venad royal family, who trace their origin back to the Ay kingdom and the Later Chera kingdom.

The local Tamil name comes from a local deity, Servarayan, which means Chera king.

The period of known history of the region begins with the Iron age ( 1200 BC to 24 BC ) period during which Chera, Chola, Pandya ruled the South Indian country until 14th century A. D. Inscriptions on Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple shows that once Pandyan kingdom ruled from Himalayas in North to Kanyakumari in the South.

The Pandyas were one of the three ancient Tamil dynasties ( Chola and Chera being the other two ) who ruled the Tamil country from pre-historic times until end of the 15th century.

The Chera kingdom were one of the Tamil dynasties who ruled the southern India from ancient times until around the twelfth century CE.

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.

Pearls and diamonds came to Chera Kingdom from Ceylon and the southeastern coast of India, then known as the Pandyan Kingdom.

The cult has come with the King Gajabahu I who brought the settler Tamils from the Chera Kingdom of his friend Cheran Senguttuvan.

* Joseph Rabban-Was given copper plates of special grants from the Chera ruler Bhaskara Ravivarman II from Kerala.

Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai analysed epigraphic and other documentary evidence to establish that a Chera dynasty, different from the Sangham era Chera kingdom, existed in the ninth century with their capital at Mahodayapuram ( Makothai ).

However, the recently discovered Kurumathur Inscription ( from Areekkode in Malappuram District ) by Rajashekhara Varman dates 871 CE, proving to be the earliest documented evidence of the Chera rule out-dating the Vazhapalli plates.

Parantaka I also married the daughter of another Chera king Paluvettaraiyar Kandan Amuthan named Arumoli Nangai ruling from west Paluvur of the present Tirutchirappalli in Tamil Nadu bordering Kerala.

A ferry transported traders, pilgrims and chroniclers across the Gulf of Mannar from the Tenavaram temple, the famously wealthy Vishnu-Shiva temple town emporium to the Chera kingdom via Puttalam of the Jaffna kingdom during the medieval period.