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  malabarian coast - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
The Malabarian Coast also known as the Malabar coast, is a long and narrow South-western shore line of mainland Indian subcontinent.
The Malabarian coast is also sometimes used as an all encompassing term for the entire Indian coast from the western coast of Konkan to the tip of the subcontinent at Cape Comorin.
The Southern part of this narrow coast is the South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests.
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 Malabar Coast Information
Geographically, the Malabar Coast, especially on its westward-facing mountain slopes, comprises the wettest region of southern India, as the Western Ghats intercept the moisture-laden monsoon rains.
The Malabar Coast is also sometimes used as an all encompassing term for the entire Indian coast from the western coast of Konkan to the tip of the subcontinent at Cape Comorin.
The Malabar Coast features a number of historic port cities, notably Kozhikode (Calicut) and Oddeway Torre settlement, both part of Danish India, Cochin, and Quilon, that have served as centers of the Indian Ocean trade for centuries.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Malabar_Coast   (275 words)

  
 Malabar - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Malabar
The Malabar Coast, in historical contexts, refers to India's southwest coast, lying on the narrow coastal plain of Karnataka and Kerala states between the Western Ghats range and the Arabian Sea.
The Malabar Coast features a number of historic port cities, notably Kozhikode (Calicut), Cochin, and Quilon, that have served as centers of the Indian Ocean trade for centuries.
Because of their orientation to the sea and to maritime commerce, the Malabar coast cities feel very cosmopolitan, and hosted some of the first groups of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in India.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Malabar.html   (513 words)

  
 Malabar Coast
The Malabar Coast, in historical contexts, refers to India's southwest coast, lying on the narrow coastal plain of Karnataka and Kerala states between the Western Ghats range and the Arabian Sea.
The Malabar Coast is also sometimes used as an all encompassing term for the entire Indian coast from the western coast of Konkan to the; tip of the subcontinent at Cape Comorin.
The Malabar Coast features a number of historic port cities, notably Kozhikode (Calicut) and Oddeway Torre settlement (both part of Danish India), Cochin and Quilon, which have served as centers of the Indian Ocean trade for centuries.
malabar-coast.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Malabar_Coast   (1086 words)

  
 Malabo - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Malabo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Capital, port, and largest settlement of Equatorial Guinea, on the north coast of the volcanic island of Bioko; population (1994 est) 40,300 (city), 50,000 (urban area).
It is the leading commercial centre of the country and trades in cocoa, coffee, copra, and other agricultural products, as well as timber and fish.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Malabo   (172 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Malabarian Coast
The Malabarian Coast also known as the Malabar coast, is a long and narrow South-western shore line of mainland Indian subcontinent.
The Malabarian coast is also sometimes used as an all encompassing term for the entire Indian coast from the western coast of Konkan to the tip of the subcontinent at Cape Comorin.
It spans from the South - Western coast of Maharashtra and goes along the coastal region of Goa, through the entire western coast of Karnataka and Kerala and reaches till Kanyakumari.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Malabarian_Coast   (291 words)

  
 Timber Trade on the Malabar Coast, c. 1780-1840   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Over centuries, the Malabarian timber merchants had developed trading structures that turned out to be resistant to any attempts to transform them according to the needs of a new ruler.
On the contrary, at the beginning of the 19th century the authorities in Bombay had to adapt to the social and economic realities in the Malabar province and the adjacent country.
The Malabarian local 'agency' remained resistant to the British regime until at least the middle of the 19th century.
www.erica.demon.co.uk /EH/EH716.html   (228 words)

  
 KUNDARPUA CHURH
For in almost all Territories of Indian near the sea coast there happen to be two places same place of, one called the Higher, or In-land, belonging to the natives, the other the Lower, near the sea, to the Portugal's, where they have footing.
Gradually the Portuguese extended their activities along the Canara coast to control the trade.
It was built along the coast, outside present Ganguli village.
www.angelfire.com /bc2/ry72/kundapurachurch.html   (3079 words)

  
 MALABAR COAST Articles The Malabar Coast also known as the
Geographically, it comprises the wettest region of southern India, as the Western Ghats intercept the moisture-laden monsoon rains, especially on its westward-facing mountain slopes.
The term "Malabar Coast" is also sometimes used in reference to the entire Indian coast from the western coast of Konkan to the tip of the subcontinent at Cape Comorin.
Located on the tropical Malabar Coast of south-western India, the God’s own country – Kerala is one of the smallest states in India which has the area of about 1 % of the total area of land in India.
www.amazines.com /Malabar_Coast_related.html   (616 words)

  
 [tamil] Tilmun: Tamil Teak in Sumeria
Here is the best and well grown timber in sufficient plenty, the best iron upon the coast, any sort of ironwork is ingeniously performed by the natives, as spikes, bolts, anchors, and the like.
Very expert master-builders there are several here, they build very well, and launch with as much discretion as I have seen in any part of the world.
A Venetian traveller of 16th Century Cesare de Fedrici, while commenting on the East Coast of India has noted that there is an abundance of material for ship building in this area and many Sultans of Constantinople found it cheaper to have their vessels built in India than at Alexandria.
www.tamil.net /list/2000-12/msg00581.html   (1354 words)

  
 History of Ziegenbalg
The arrival of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg on July 9, 1706 in a Tamil village of Tranquebar on the Coromandel Coast in South East India marks the beginning of an interesting chapter not only in Indo-German relationship but also in Tamil language literature and culture.
Ziegenbalg came to Tranquebar with an expressed purpose of introducing German Lutheran pietism to the people of Bhakthi religions belonging to popular village religiosities but his encounter with Tamil people and Tamil culture and literature transformed him so much that he became the author for Tamil culture and religious heritage.
His main aim was to introduce his European readers to the theological and theosophical thought patterns and behaviours of Tamil people.
www.gltc.edu /tercentenary/ziegenbalg.htm   (1195 words)

  
 Holy Rosary Church, Kundapura
For in almost all Territories of Indian near the sea coast there happen to be two places same place of, one called the Higher, or In-land, belonging to the natives, the other the Lower, near the sea, to the Portugal's, where they have footing.
Gradually the Portuguese extended their activities along the Canara coast to control the trade.
It was built along the coast, outside present Ganguli village.
home.catholicweb.com /Kundapura/index.cfm/NewsItem?ID=24689&From=News   (3045 words)

  
 Gold Coast Accommodation - Information
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 Minister of Communications & IT
The arrival of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (pronounced Zee-gun-balg) on the Tarangambadi coast in 1706 was an important landmark in the meeting of East and West.
The study of the Tamil language led Ziegenbalg to the study of the teachings and contents of classical Hinduism, as well as elements of popular belief.
He documented his observations in his book, ‘The Genealogy of the Malabarian Gods’, which contains a description of the society of South India at that time and also describes the contemporary beliefs of the people.
www.dmaran.nic.in /speechdisplay.php?id=196   (773 words)

  
 Gold Coast - Information
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 Christianity in India
In 345 there was a persecution of Persian Christians by the Zoroastrian leadership and many fled to the Malabar coast, where they prospered as traders.
Later, after the rise of Islam, more Christians fled east to India where they were often given land by local rulers (usually demarcated by the traditional method of allowing a female elephant to roam free).
He also wrote a book (Genealogy of the Malabarian Gods) which was important in understanding local Hinduism but which conservative Christians criticized.
academics.smcvt.edu /jbyrne/christianity_in_india.htm   (1775 words)

  
 goa
It is located on the west coast of India, in the region known as the Konkan, and is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and Karnataka to the east and south.
Portuguese possessions in India were a few enclaves along India's west coast, with Goa being the largest of these holdings.An interesting development of the 17th century in Goa is the Conspiracy Of The Pintos in 1787 which was inspired by the French Revolution.
The land away from the coast is rich in minerals and ores and mining forms the second largest industry.
www.dirpedia.com /goa.html   (4546 words)

  
 The Other Malaysia - The running amok of the Malay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
century, of a ‘caste’ of personal guards of the ruling families of Cochin along the Malabar coast, who in pledging their lives to the royal households of the day were called ‘amoucos’.
Where the amouco, for example, was part of a martial contingent participating in a ritualised practice to restore honour, the solitary amok is carried out by an individual as if spontaneously requiring little more than a perceived insult as a provocation for redress.
As would be expected with any conquered and colonised society their martial components, the amouco of the Malabar Coast, and the shock troops of the Balinese being examples, vanished on being replaced by those of the coloniser.
www.othermalaysia.org /content/view/70/52   (4776 words)

  
 Indian Orthodox Church Information
During the later Old Testament times the Malabarian coast had trade relations with West Asia.
These trade routes later enabled Christianity to reach Kerala, a state on the south western coast of India.
Tradition states that the Apostle Thomas preached the Gospel to the locals (which included Jewish settlers in Kerala), baptized many, ordained some as bishops and founded seven churches.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Indian_Orthodox_Church   (953 words)

  
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Description: Malabarian 17th Century Hand Colored Engraving, inscribed in the upper right, Pars 4.
The Malabar Coast includes the whole southwest corner of India as far back as the ghaut line.
The ancient form of the name was Male, 'where the pepper grows', whence the name Malayalam for the prevailing language.
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 Hobson Jobson Dictionary
made their acquaintance with various places on the eastern or Coromandel Coast.
and finding the language spoken by the fishing and sea-faring classes on the eastern coast similar to that spoken on the western, they came to the conclusion that it was identical with it, and called it in consequence by the same name -- viz.
A circumstance which naturally confirmed the Portuguese in their notion of the identity of the people and language of the Coromandel Coast with those of Malabar was that when they arrived at Cael, in Tinnevelly, on the Coromandel Coast.
dsal.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.1:1:466.hobson   (683 words)

  
 Modern Theosophy; The People of the Blue Mountains, H.P. Blavatsky
Exactly sixty-four years ago toward the end of the year 1818, in the month of September, a discovery was made quite fortuitously, of a most extraordinary character.
This took place near the coast of Malabar, only fifty miles from the fiery ground of Dravid, called Madras.
Behold this delicately sapphire-colored space extending over an area of forty miles around the summit, with the Malabarian River on the horizon line, and at your feet a vastness with a length and width of two hundred miles.
www.katinkahesselink.net /other/blue_mount1.html   (9115 words)

  
 EUH Documents
The kingdom shall be divided into ten metropolitan districts of which the sees shall be situated at Rouen, Rheims, Besancon, Rennes, Paris, Bourges, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Aix, and Lyons.
A new arrangement and division of all the parishes of the kingdom shall be undertaken immediately in concert with the bishop and the district administration.
The pagan feared to commit any crime, out of fear of punishment by his false gods; the Malabarian fears to be punished by his pagoda.
pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~velez/frdoc1.html   (13717 words)

  
 Chapter MALABAR <i>to</i> MALABAR RITES of M by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary
1718.—“This place (Tranquebar) is altogether inhabited by Malabarian Heathens.”—Propn.
1760.—“Such was the ardent zeal of M. Ziegenbalg that in less than a year he attained a perfect knowledge of the Malabarian tongue.
… He composed also a Malabarian dictionary of 20,000 words.”—Grose, i.
www.bibliomania.com /2/3/260/1280/20092/1.html   (555 words)

  
 Modern Theosophy; The People of the Blue Mountains, H.P. Blavatsky
The "lion-monkeys" are found only on the edge of the woods covering the southern slope of the "Blue Mountains," coming out at times to warm themselves in the sun.
They are called lion-monkeys on account of the close resemblance of the head to that of a lion, with a yellow and white mane and the tufted end of the tail.
This respectable savant, in his letters* expressed his conviction - one does not know why - that the Todds were a cross-breed of Bretons and Normans thrown by shipwreck on the Malabarian coast.
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 Jeyaraj
One of the greatest discoveries of this time was the finding of the original German manuscript of Ziegenbalg entitled the Genealogy of the Malabarian Gods (1713).
The first English translation appeared in 1703, and was reprinted once in 1732 in London and in 1996 in New Delhi: A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coast of Malabar and Coromandel, New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1996.
Ziegenbalg, and some others to Tranquebar, on the Coromandel coast in the East-Indies, who were useful to the natives, so that many of the heathens were turned to the Lord.
www.missionstudies.org /rescue/jeyaraj.htm   (10839 words)

  
 || Indian Christianity ||
It was a name given by the Roman authorities to refer to the Catholic St.Thomas Christians.
The name Syro-Malabar was chosen apparently to avoid confusion with the Malabar rite which existed as a part of the Latin Church in the Coromandel coast of India.
Even those who remained in communion were fighting for getting Bishops of their own rite and nation.
www.indianchristianity.org /syromalabar.html   (8227 words)

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