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Kollam

Thiruvananthapuram surrounds the city of Kollam in the south, Arabian Sea in the west, Allahpuja or Alleppey in the northwest and Kottayam in the north. Kottayam is a green forest city abounding with extensive fields of Plantations.

Paddy, Rubber and Tea are the major plantation crops of Kottayam Kollam City Tour Guide

A Christian missionary called Benjamin Bailey set up a first ever Malayalam printing press in this city in 1820.

Alleppey is abounding in natural beauties with ample of scenic beauties like lagoons, lakes, freshwater rivers and vegetations Kollam City Tour Guide .

Visitors from round the world entitled this place as the Venice of the East. Its backwater is one distinct tourist interest.

Kollam District which is a veritable Kerala in miniature is gifted with unique representative features - sea, lakes, plains, mountains, rivers, streams Kollam City Tour Guide .

Backwaters, forest, vast green fields and tropical crop of every variety both food crop and cash crop, so called The Gods Own Capital Kollam City Tour Guide .

Kollam BackwaterThe rulers of Kollam (Desinganadu) and China , exchange embassies and there was flourishing Chinese settlement at Kollam.

Merchant Sulaiman of Siraf in Persia ( 9th Century) found Kollam to be the only port in India , touched by the huge Chinese junks , on his way from Carton of Persian Gulf.

Marco Polo, the great Venician traveller, who was in Chinese service under Kublahan in 1275, visited Kollam and other towns on the west coast, in his capacity as a Chinese mandarin Tours Kollam South India.

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to establish a trading center at Kollam in 1502.

Then came the Dutch followed by the British in 1795. A British garrison was stationed at Kollam in pursuance of a treaty between Travancore and the British Tours Kollam South India.

Velu Thampi Dalawa of Travancore, did much for the improvement of the Kollam town.

He build new bazaars and invited merchants from Madras and Thirunelveli to settle here. Kollam later became the capital of the enlightened and liberal rulers of Desinganad Tours Kollam South India.

Once a city of palaces, Kollam has been known to the outside world, by the time honoured proverb, "Once you have seen Kollam you would no more need your illam (Home)"

The history of the district as an administrative unit can be traced back to 1835, when the Travancore state consisted of two revenue divisions with headquarters at Kollam and Kottayam Tours Kollam South India. At the time of the integrating of Travancore and Cochin in 1949, Kollam was one of the three revenue divisions in the state. These three revenue divisions were converted into districts. Shencottah taluk was merged with Madras state consequent on the implementation of the state Reorganisation Act of 1956 Tours Kollam South India.

When Alappuzha district was formed in 1957, Cherthala, Ambalapuzha, Mavelikkara, Karthikappally. Chenganuur and Thiruvalla Taluks were united to the new district. When Pathanamthitta district was formed on 1st July 1983, the entire Pathanamthitta Taluk and nine villages of Kunnathur Taluk of the district were also removed. Now the district has a single revenue division with headquarters at Kollam. Pathanapuram, Kunnathur, Kottarakkara, Karunagappally and Kollam are the five taluks in the district.

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