Hefty fellow

See also: Hefty fellow (homonymy)

The Malabar - also called Malabar Coast - is an area located on the coast of the south-west of the Indian peninsula and which forms the northern part of the actual position of the Kerala. It extends from Mangalore in north to the river Ponnanî in the south, between the shore of the Mer of Oman and Ghâts Western chains it. One however wrongly gives this name in a broader way to the coast extending from Goa to Kânyâkumârî.

Time of the British Raj, the area was part of the Présidence of Madras until the formation of Kerala in 1956 by its meeting with the principality of Thiru-Kochi (Travancore - Cochin).

Before British Raj, the Hefty fellow was under the domination of Pandya until in 600 under the name of Malâkotta - or Mâlâyâ or Mâlâkuta - then burst in several principalities like those of Kolathiri de Kasargod, the Zamorin S of Calicut or of Valluvokonathiri de Walluvanad.

One finds on the Malabar Coast a certain number of historical port cities, in particular Kozhikode (Calicut), Cochin, Quilon and Cranganore, the Muziris of the Antiquité, which was important shopping malls of the Indian Ocean lasting of the centuries, attended by the Phénicien S, the Romains, the Chinese, the Arab S. Because of their opening towards the sea and the maritime trade, the cities of the Malabar Coast is very cosmopolitan and accommodated very early Christian communities , Jewish S and of Musulman be.

The Malabar Coast, and particularly the Western slope of Ghâts, which make obstacle with the Mousson, are the wettest area of the India of the South.

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