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Kannur ( Malayalam: കണ്ണൂര് Kannur [ kaɳ ː u ː ɾ ] ), formerly Cannanore, is a city in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Kannur is on the Malabar Coast in the north of Kerala and had the time of census 2001 63.797 inhabitants. The city is the administrative center of the district of Kannur.

Kannur was early an important port and was in the 12th and 13th centuries a center of overseas trade with Arabia and Persia. After Vasco da Gama had already in 1498 during his first trip to India visited Kannur, the site became one of the first Portuguese bases in India was. Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1501 founded a trading post in Kannur, four years later, under Francisco de Almeida, the construction of Fort St. Angelo. 1506 defeated the Portuguese in a naval battle against Kannur the Zamorin of Calicut (Kozhikode ) and thus consolidated their power on the Malabar Coast. Kannur remained under Portuguese control, before it was conquered middle of the 17th century by the Dutch. They sold the city in 1771 to the local ruling family of Ali Rajas, the only Muslim dynasty of Kerala. In the Mysore wars Kannur opened the pages Tipu Sultan, which meant that the British, the city for the first time in 1783 and finally conquered in 1790. Kannur was incorporated as part of the district of Malabar in the Madras Presidency. After Indian independence, the city came in 1956 to the newly founded state of Kerala and is the administrative seat of the district of Kannur.

Representation Kannurs from the 16th century

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