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.

Likewise a popular Hindu ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala, India is the Tabuh Rah blood offering to Theyyam gods, despite being forbidden in the Vedic philosophy of sattvic Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, Theyyam deities are propitiated through the cock sacrifice where the religious cockfight is a religious exercise of offering blood to the Theyyam gods.

Likewise a popular Hindu ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala, India is the Tabuh Rah blood offering to the Theyyam gods.

* Malabar ( Nadan / Native ), as the name suggests, is the native variety of Kerala.

* Vazhuka is a naturally occurring hybrid between Malabar and Mysore varieties, and the panicles grow neither vertically nor horizontally, but in between.

Malabar is a town in Brevard County, Florida, United States.

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Tellicherry is a pepper made from fruits from the grafted Malabar plants grown on Mount Tellicherry.

Malayalam Calendar or the Kolla varsham is the calendar followed by people in the South Indian state of Kerala except Malabar & founded by chera King Rajashekhara Varma with the Tarissapalli copper plates of 825 AD to Assyrian Monk Mar Abo which introduced Syrian liturgy among vaishnavite Nambuthiri Christians of chera Kingdom ( present south & central Kerala ).

The generic name Areca is derived from a name used locally on the Malabar Coast of India.

Bombay on the Malabar Coast belonging to the East India Company of England by Jan van Ryne ( 1754 ) is in the India Office Records.

A critically endangered mammal of the Western Ghats is the nocturnal Malabar Large-spotted Civet.

Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary is located at the northern end of the Malabar ranges and the southern tip of the Sahyadri ranges and bird species from both ranges can be seen here.

The wood for the shaft of the mace is from Malabar and was presented by the Secretary of State for India ( R. A.

East-Indian Lemon Grass ( Cymbopogon flexuosus ), also called Cochin Grass or Malabar Grass ( Malayalam: ഇഞ ് ച ി പ ് പ ു ല ് ല ്( inchippullu ), is native to Cambodia, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, and Thailand while the West-Indian lemon grass ( Cymbopogon citratus ) is native to maritime Southeast Asia.

Malabar ( Northern Kerala ) (, is an area of southern India lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea.

The name is sometimes extended to the entire south-western coast of the peninsula, called the Malabar Coast.

Malabar is also used by ecologists to refer to the tropical and subtropical moist broad-leaf forests of south-western India ( present day Kerala ).

Kozhikode is considered as the capital of Malabar.

But today, Malabar is only used for the former Malabar district, or northern districts of Kerala state.