The Kingdom of Cochin or the Cochin State also known as Perumpadappu Swaroopam, named after its capital in the city of Kochi, was a kingdom in the central part of present-day Kerala state. It originat
Cochin in the 1960s, just a few years after joining the union
Mattancherry Palace-temple, built by the Portuguese as a gift to Raja Veera Kerala Varma I
Relic of Thomas the Apostle, kept in the sanatorium of a Syrian Church
The Bolgatty Palace, built in 1744 by Dutch traders, is one of the oldest existing Dutch palaces outside the Netherlands
The Kingdom of Travancore, also known as the Thiruvithamkoor Kingdom and Travancore State, was a princely state in the Indian subcontinent that lasted from c. 1729 until 1949. It was ruled by the Trav
Kingdom of Cochin
…by the British East India Company (1795–1858, confirmed on 6 May 1809) after the Anglo-Dutch War, with British paramountcy over the Cochin state. The kingdom of Travancore merged with the kingdom of Cochin to form the state of Travancore-Cochin in 1950. The five Tamil-majority taluks of Vilavancode, Kalkulam, Thovalai…
Historic scene of canal in Travancore
Anantha Padmanabhaswamy was the national deity of the kingdom of Travancore.
Thambiran Vanakkam was printed at Kollam, the capital of Venad in 1578, during the Portuguese Era. It is the first book printed in any Indian language. It was written in the language Lingua Malabar Tamul, which was spoken in southern Kerala (Kollam–Thiruvananthapuram–Kanyakumari area) during the medieval period.
The British Residency in Quilon, where the resident of Travancore resided