Venadu kingdom

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Venadu, romanised as Venad, also known as Quilon, was a medieval state located between the Western Ghat Mountains and the Arabian Sea, at the south-western tip of India, with its traditional capital at the port city of Kollam (Quilon). The Kingdom of Quilon included the present-day Kerala districts of Kollam, Pathanamthitta, southern parts of Alappuzha, and Thiruvananthapuram, as well as the Kanyakumari district of present-day Tamil Nadu. Kanyakumari and Thiruvananthapuram are located to the south of capital town Quilon (Kollam). It was one of the major principalities of present-day Kerala, along with the states of Kannur (Kolathunadu), Kozhikode (ruled by the Samoothiris), and Kochi (Perumpadappu), during the medieval and early modern periods. Venadu, originally a chiefly territory within the medieval Chera state of Kerala, emerged as an independent principality — often referred to as the Chera kingdom — ruled by the Kulasekhara dynasty in the early 12th century CE. In the following period...

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