Thrissur district
The Thrissur District ( Malayalam: തൃശ്ശൂര് ജില്ല, formerly Trichur ) is a district in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Council is based in the eponymous city of Thrissur.
Geography
The Thrissur District is located on the Malabar coast in Zentralkerala. It is bordered to the west by the Arabian Sea, to the north by the district of Malappuram in the north, on the northeast by the Palakkad District, on the east by the neighboring federal state of Tamil Nadu (District Coimbatore ), to the southeast by the Idukki District and on the south by the district of Ernakulam.
The area of the district of Thrissur has an area of 3,032 square kilometers and extends from the coast in the west to the mountains of the Western Ghats bishin in the east. It is divided into five taluks Chavakkad, Talappilly, Thrissur, Kodungallur and Mukundapuram.
History
During the British colonial period was one of the largest part of today's district area to the nominally independent princely state of Cochin. The coastal area of the district, however, was part of the district of Malabar province of British India Madras. After Indian independence, Cochin united with the princely state of Travancore Travancore -Cochin and the Federation took place in 1949 following the Indian Union. 1956 Thrissur to one of the districts of the newly founded state of Kerala, which had emerged along the borders of the Malayalam language of Travancore -Cochin and Malabar the district.
Population
According to the 2011 census, the Thrissur District has 3,110,327 inhabitants. Between 2001 and 2011, the population ( 4.9 per cent ) grew by 4.6 percent, about the same speed as in the middle of Kerala. The population density is 1,026 inhabitants per square kilometer above the already high average of Kerala ( 859 inhabitants per square kilometer). 67.2 percent of the residents of District Thrissur live in cities. The degree of urbanization is among the highest in Kerala and is well above the average of the state ( 47.7 percent). The literacy ratio, which was 95.3 percent of the average of Kerala ( 95.2 per cent).
In religious terms, the Thrissur District is mixed. According to the 2001 census, a majority of 59.2 percent of the population Hindus, at the same time there are large minorities of Christians ( 24.2 percent) and Muslims ( 16.4 percent).
Culture and sights
The main attraction of the city of Thrissur is the Hindu god Shiva consecrated Vadakkunathan Temple, one of the biggest and oldest Hindu temples of Kerala. Once a year in Thrissur Thrissur Pooram, a magnificent temple festival is held in the center of which a procession of more than 50 festively decorated temple elephant is standing. The festival annually attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors, including many Western tourists.
About 30 kilometers west of Thrissur in the small town Cheruthuruthy is the Academy of Fine Arts Kerala Kalamandalam. This institution was founded in 1930 is the main center for traditional Keralite and Indian performing arts like Kathakali, Kutiyattam or Bharata Natyam.