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Malabar and Coast
Arab Traders had converted populations in the Malabar Coast since the 7th century, and the Arab invader Muhammad Bin Qāsim had converted large swathes of Sindh to Islam at about the same time.
Indian Orthodoxy traces its roots to the arrival in India of St. Thomas the Apostle in AD 52 ( according to tradition ) and his evangelism among both the Brahmans of the Malabar Coast and the ancient Jewish community there.
* The English establish a settlement at Cochin ( now Kochi ) on the Malabar Coast.
After a period of expansion under the Mongol Empire, the church went into decline through the 14th century, and was eventually confined largely to its heartland in what is now Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran and to the Malabar Coast of India.
By the 16th century it was largely confined to Iraq, northeast Syria, southeast Turkey, northwest Iran and the Malabar Coast of India ( Kerala ).
To prevent the Portuguese or the English from ever recapturing Sri Lanka, the VOC went on to conquer the entire Malabar Coast from the Portuguese, almost entirely driving them from the west coast of 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.
These factors gradually squeezed the company out of Persia, Suratte, the Malabar Coast, and Bengal.
Malabar Coast of India, c. 1500, showing the path of Vasco da Gama's 4th Portuguese India Armada ( Gama, 1502 ) | 4th India Armada in 1502.
The violent treatment meted out by Gama quickly brought trade along the Malabar Coast of India, upon which Calicut depended, to a standstill.
* The merchant Knai Thomman visits the Malabar Coast in Kerala ( India ) and assists the church there.
* Kingdom of Cochin, a former feudal city-state on Malabar Coast, India
* Kingdom of Cochin, a former feudal city-state on Malabar Coast, India
It became the vehicle of Syriac Christianity and culture, spreading throughout Asia as far as the Indian Malabar Coast and Eastern China, and was the medium of communication and cultural dissemination for Arabs and, to a lesser extent, Persians.
Sailors first came to face with the idol of Deumus at Calicut on the Malabar Coast and they concluded it to be the deity of Calicut.
* 52-Thomas arrives in Malabar and Coromandel Coast in India and founds church that subsequently becomes the Syrian Malabar Nasranis
Two types come from India's Malabar Coast: Malabar pepper and Tellicherry pepper.
J. Innes Miller notes that while pepper was grown in southern Thailand and in Malaysia, its most important source was India, particularly the Malabar Coast, in what is now the state of Kerala Peppercorns were a much-prized trade good, often referred to as " black gold " and used as a form of commodity money.
By the time of the early Roman Empire, especially after Rome's conquest of Egypt in 30 BCE, open-ocean crossing of the Arabian Sea redirect to southern India's Malabar Coast was near routine.
On the Malabar Coast, Ali Raja Kunhi Amsa II had established a large and well armed fleet consisting of 10 dhows and 30 larger ketches in the Indian Ocean, in his attempts to conquer islands that had withstood the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.
The Malayalam Calendar ( called Kollavarsham ) originated in 825 CE, based on general agreement among scholars, with the re-opening of the city of Kollam ( on Malabar Coast ), which had been destroyed by a natural disaster.
In 1724 he was promoted captain, and displayed such bravery in the capture of Mahé off the Malabar Coast that the name of the town was added to his own.

Malabar and refers
The term Malabar rainforests refers to one or more distinct ecoregions recognized by biogeographers:
Mappila (, alternatively Mopla, Moplah ) refers to the largest Muslim community in Kerala state, India primarily distributed in the northern region called Malabar, which arose as a result of the pre and post Islamic Arab contacts.

Malabar and India's
With India's independence, Madras presidency became Madras State, which was divided along linguistic lines on 1 November 1956, whereupon Kasaragod region was merged with the Malabar immediately to the north and the state of Travancore-Cochin to the south to form the state of Kerala.
Located at the top of Mumbai's Malabar Hill, it is named after Kamala Nehru, the wife of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
In 1792, at the conclusion of the Third Anglo-Mysore War, the British took over Kannur and the surrounding region, which became the new Malabar District of British India's Madras Presidency.
It lies along India's Konkan and Malabar coasts, in a narrow strip between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats range, which runs parallel to the coast.
According to tradition, St. Thomas, one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus, landed at Kodungalloor, an ancient port on India's Malabar Coast, in the year 52.
Kolathunād remained part of Malabar District ( an administrative district of British India under Madras presidency till 1947 and later part of India's Madras State till 1956.

Malabar and southwest
It is most significant that, aside from a small remnant of the Church of the East in Kurdistan, the only other church to maintain a distinctive identity is the Mar Thoma or “ Church of Thomas ” congregations along the Malabar Coast of Kerala State in southwest India.
For some while, they controlled the Malabar southwest coast ( Kodungallor, Pallipuram, Cochin, Cochin de Baixo / Santa Cruz, Quilon ( Coylan ), Cannanore, Kundapura, Kayamkulam, Ponnani ) and the Coromandel southeastern coast ( Golkonda, Bimilipatnam, Kakinada, Palikol, Pulicat, Parangippettai, Negapatnam ) and Surat ( 1616 – 1795 ).
The Elephanta is a strong southerly or southeasterly wind which blows on the Malabar coast of India during the months of September and October and marks the end of the southwest monsoon.

Malabar and coast
They were already established in Asia in Goa, on the coast of Malabar, on the island of Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) and on the Malaysian coast.
With ships sailing directly to the Malabar coast, black pepper was now travelling a shorter trade route than long pepper, and the prices reflected it.
A few followed the spice trade routes as far as the Malabar coast of southern India, where they settled among the established Cochin Jewish community.
Hyder Ali then led the Mysorean campaigns against the Nairs of Malabar ( the west coast of India ).
The taking of Bednore included several ports on the Malabar coast, including Mangalore.
In early 1768, the British Bombay Presidency in Bombay organised an expedition to Mysore's Malabar coast territories.
Furthermore, the British action had provoked the Nairs on the Malabar coast to rise in rebellion again, although Hyder had quickly put this down.
In August the British landed a force on the Malabar coast, to which Hyder responded by sending additional troops under Tipu to the west.
Hyder's advisers tried to keep his death a secret until Tipu could be recalled from the Malabar coast.
But, it's generally agreed among the scholars that it was started with the reopening of the natural disaster destroyed city of Kollam on the Malabar coast by Mar Abo, an Assyrian Monk.
In addition, the British ceded the island of Banca of the island of Sumatra in exchange for the settlement of Cochin in India and its dependencies on the coast of Malabar.
A panorama of Calicut, on the Malabar coast, shows several types of ships, shipbuilding, net fishing, dinghy traffic and a rugged, sparsely populated interior.
The Continent was lost to fire on the Malabar coast and Bowen scuttled the Speedy Return after transferring to a merchant ship he had taken.
The Wandering Albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird, typically ranging from, with a mean span of in the Bird Island, South Georgia colony and an average of exactly in 123 birds measured off the coast of Malabar, New South Wales.
They named it then " Cochi-China " to distinguish from Cochi in India, the Portuguese first headquarters in the Malabar coast.
The name is sometimes extended to the entire south-western coast of the peninsula, called the Malabar Coast.
In ancient times, the term Malabar was used to denote the entire south-western coast of the Indian peninsula.
The Malabar region lies along the south-west coast of the Indian peninsula and forms the northern part of present-day Kerala state.
The Malabar Coast is also sometimes used as an all encompassing term for the entire Indian coast from the western coast of Konkan to the tip of the subcontinent at Cape Comorin.
The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, having found his way around the Cape and obtained pilots from the coast of Zanzibar in 1497 CE, pushed his way across the Indian Ocean to the shores of Malabar and Calicut, attacked the fleets that carried freight and Muslim pilgrims from India to the Red Sea, and struck terror into the potentates all around.
In the body of the work, we hear that he had been at Paris and Constantinople ; had served the Sultan of Egypt a long time in his wars against the Bedouin, had been vainly offered by him a princely marriage and a great estate on condition of renouncing Christianity, and had left Egypt under Sultan Melech Madabron ( al-Muzaffar Sayf-ad-Din Hajji I who reigned in 1346-1347 ); had been at Mount Sinai, and had visited the Holy Land with letters under the great seal of the sultan, which gave him extraordinary facilities ; had been in Russia, Livonia, Kraków, Lithuania, " en roialme daresten " ( Dristra or Silistra in Bulgaria ), and many other parts near Tartary, but not in Tartary itself ; had drunk of the Well of Youth at Polombe ( Quilon on the Malabar coast ), and still seemed to feel the better ; had taken astronomical observations on the way to Lamory ( Sumatra ), as well as in Brabant, Germany, Bohemia and still farther north ; had been at an isle called Pathen in the Indian Ocean ; had been at Cansay ( Hangchow-fu ) in China, and had served the emperor of China fifteen months against the king of Mann ; had been among rocks of adamant in the Indian Ocean ; had been through a haunted valley, which he places near " Milstorak " ( i. e. Malasgird in Armenia ); had been driven home against his will in 1357 by arthritic gout ; and had written his book as a consolation for his " wretched rest ".

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