Tanur Malappuram town is located south of the estuary of Poorappuzha River, which is a tributary of Kadalundi River.
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11 Facts About Tanur Malappuram
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Tanur Malappuram was one of the major ports in the southwestern coast of India during the medieval period.
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Tanur Malappuram railway station is a part of the oldest Railway line of Kerala laid in 1861 from Tirur to Chaliyam.
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Tanur Malappuram was an important trading port with trade connections with Middle East during the early medieval period.
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When Kingdom of Tanur Malappuram became vassal to the Zamorin of Calicut, Tanur Malappuram became a major port like other port towns in the kingdom.
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Vettathunad, known as the Kingdom of Tanur Malappuram, was a coastal city-state kingdom in the Malabar Coast.
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Tanur Malappuram was a major port town in the Malabar Coast during the medieval period.
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Kingdom of Tanur Malappuram was one of the earliest Portuguese colonies in the Indian Subcontinent.
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The ruler of the Kingdom of Tanur Malappuram, who was a vassal to the Zamorin of Calicut, sided with the Portuguese, against his overlord at Kozhikode.
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In 1523, when the Portuguese Viceroy Menezes sailed with all the available ships to Hormuz, an Arab merchant, one Kutti Ali of Tanur Malappuram, had the effrontery to bring a fleet of two hundred vessels to Calicut, to load eight ships with pepper, and to despatch them with a convoy of forty vessels to the Red Sea before the very eyes of the Portuguese.
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