Travancore

Travancore ( Tiruvitamkur; Malayalam: തിരുവിതാംകൂര്, in older eindeutschender letters from English also Trawankur / Travankur ) was a princely state on the Malabar Coast in southwestern India in the present-day state of Kerala. In Travancore the Malabar era ( Malayalam era ) was: Year 1 = Malabar year 826 AD

The Hindu principality of Travancore was born about 1100 in imitation of the old Cheralam Empire. The ruling dynasty of Travancore originally came from the small town Thiruvithankodu. From 1550 to 1750 Padmanabhapuram was the capital Travancores, from 1750 then Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram ). 1795/1805-1947 Travancore was a British protectorate (see History of India and British India ). The Rajas revered Padmanabha ( " he with the Lotus Abel " ), a manifestation of the Hindu god Vishnu, as a family deity and ruled nominally as "servants Padmanabhas " ( Padmanabhadasa ). Rama Varma IV ( 1866-80 ) was raised to the Maharaja. On July 1, 1949 Travancore Cochin formed with the Federation of Travancore -Cochin and completed the connection to India. On November 1, 1956, the principalities were abolished and merged the state with the Malabar district of the Madras State to the new state of Kerala. The extreme south is the state of Madras incorporated as a district of Kanyakumari ( Tamil Nadu since 1969 ).

Travancore in 1941 had an area of ​​19,748 km ² and 5.9 million inhabitants. The principality had its own State Post, which published from 1888 stamps.

Between 1741 and 1777 the prisoner Flame Eustace de Lannoy was commander of the army of Travancore. The territorielle consolidation and expansion of the state in that period is largely due to him.