Cannanore

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Cannanore
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Presidency: Madras
Coordinates: 11.855300°N 75.361615°E
Altitude:
Present Day Details
Place Name: Kannur
State/Province: Kerala
Country: India
Transport links
Madras Railway

Cannanore is on the Malabar (west) coast, north of Tellicherry and south of Mangalore. It was the British military headquarters on the west coast until 1887.


Spelling Variants

Modern name: Kannur
Variants: Cannanore, Kananore


History

 
The fort chapel, now ruins.

Cannanore was an early Portuguese settlement, Vasco de Gama landing there in 1498 on his way home from Calicut and a factory and colony following soon afterwards. In 1505, Francisco de Almeida (the first Portuguese Viceroy of India) founded St Angelo's Fort. In the 1660s the Dutch took control of Cannanore, but they relinquished power in the 1770s. In the following decade the British invaded the town when the Bibi captured 250 soldiers en route to the fight against Tipu Sultan. As the west coast headquarters Cannanore was a flourishing trade centre, third only on the west coast to Bombay and Karachi, but when the HQ moved to the Nilgiris in 1887, its significance and prosperity waned.

Military

Battle of Cannanore 1783


St Angelo's Fort

Built by the Portuguese in 1505, the triangular fort was captured by the Dutch in 1663 and held until 1771 when it was sold to the Ali Raja. The British seized it in 1790 and the fort subsequently became a central part of British military operations on the Malabar coast.

The fort is in the cantonment area of Cannanore. It is also known as Cannanore Fort.


Churches and missions

 
St John's Church
  • St John's Church - Anglican
  • Holy Trinity - Catholic
  • Basel German Mission


Schools

  • St Michael's Catholic Boys School - founded 1807
  • St Theresa’s European Middle School - founded in 1867 by the Rev. Fr. Louis Mari Martelli then run then by the sisters of St. Joseph’s of the Apparition

Transport

Rail

Cannanore was an intermediate station on the Calicut to Mangalore section of the Madras Railway.


External links

Wikipedia

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