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'''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 [[Nilgiri Hills|Nilgiris]] in 1887, its significance and prosperity waned.