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== Spelling Variants ==
Modern name: Kozhikode<br>
Variants: Calicut, Kalikot <br>
== Military history ==
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rBNPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA40 Calicut] page 40, ''The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 68 1847''. Google Books. The cantonment was classified as one of the "Stations on the sea coast"
*[http://archive.org/stream/adescriptioncoa00barbgoog#page/n181/mode/2up "Kingdom of Calicut"] page 154 ''A description of the coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the beginning of the sixteenth century by Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese. Translated from an early Spanish manuscript in the Barcelona library'' with notes and a preface by Henry E. J. Stanley. 1866 Archive.org
*''The travels of Pietro della Valle in India : from the old English translation of 1664'', edited by Edward Grey (late Bengal Civil Service) 1892 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/travelsofpietrod00dell Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/travelspietrode00havegoog Volume II]. Pietro della Valle arrived in India 10 February 1623 at Surat, embarking from Goa 16 November 1624 including a visit to Calicut.
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