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Karipur
Karipur (also spelt Karippur) is a locality in the Kondotty taluk of the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, 25 km (16 mi) from the city of Malappuram. It is best known as the site of Karipur International Airport, serving travellers of mainly the South Malabar region. Other than that, it is a small hamlet that comes under the jurisdiction of Kondotty Municipality and Pallikkal gram panchayat. Karipur forms a portion of the Malappuram metropolitan area as of 2011 Census. Transportation Karippur village connects to other parts of India through Kondotty town on the west and Nilambur town on the east. National highway No.66 passes through Pulikkal and the northern stretch connects to Goa and Mumbai. The southern stretch connects to Cochin and Trivandrum. National Highway No.966 starts from Ramanatukara and connects to Malappuram, Palakkad and Coimbatore through National Highway 544. Karipur International Airport is situated in this village. This airport is notorious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malappuram District
Malappuram (), is one of the List of districts of Kerala, 14 districts in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kerala, with a coastline of . It is the most populous district of Kerala, which is home to around 13% of the total population of the state. The district was formed on 16 June 1969, spanning an area of about . It is the third-largest district of Kerala by area, as well as the largest district in the state, bounded by Western Ghats and Arabian Sea to either side. The district is divided into seven Tehsil, Taluks: Eranad Taluk, Eranad, Kondotty Taluk, Kondotty, Nilambur#Nilambur Taluk, Nilambur, Perinthalmanna taluk, Perinthalmanna, Ponnani taluk, Ponnani, Tirur Taluk, Tirur, and Tirurangadi Taluk Office, Tirurangadi. Malayalam is the most spoken language. The district has witnessed significant emigration, especially to the Arab states of the Persian Gulf during the Kerala Gulf diaspora#The Gulf Boom, Gulf Boom of the 1970s and early 1980s, and its ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calicut International Airport
Calicut International Airport , also known as Kozhikode Airport or Karipur Airport, is an international airport located in Karipur, Malappuram district of Kerala, India. It serves the Malabar region of Kozhikode, Malappuram, Wayanad and Palakkad. It is situated 28 kilometers away from Kozhikode city and 25 kilometers away from Malappuram city. It serves two of the seven metropolitan areas in the state - Kozhikode metropolitan area and Malappuram metropolitan area. The airport opened on 13 April 1988. The airport serves as an operating base for Air India Express and operates Hajj Pilgrimage services to Medina and Jeddah from Kerala. It is the twenty first–busiest airport in India in terms of overall passenger traffic and also the sixth-busiest airport in India after Delhi, Mumbai, Kochi, Chennai and Hyderabad in terms of international traffic. It received international airport status on 2 February 2006. It is one of a few airports in the country with a tabletop runway. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pallikkal
Pallikkal (Pallikkal Bazar) is a T-shaped town, village and gram panchayat in Kondotty Taluk, Malappuram district in the state of Kerala, India. Calicut International Airport at Karipur is near Pallikkal. Pallikkal Bazar is with in 5 km from the University of Calicut and from Kondotty. Kerala’s first Akshaya center was started in Pallikal gram panchayat. AMLP School Pallikkal is in Pallikkal Bazar. Proposed Karipur-Kondotty Municipality The proposed Karipur-Kondotty Municipality comprises *Kondotty panchayat (villages of Kondotty, and part of Karipur) *Nediyiruppu panchayat (villages of Nediyiruppu, and part of Karipur) *Pallikkal panchayat (villages of Pallikkal, and part of Karipur) *Pulikkal panchayat *Cherukavu panchayat *Vazhayur panchayat Total Area: 122.99 km2 Total Population (1991 Census): 152,839 Demographics India census, Pallikkal had a population of 38166 with 18945 males and 19221 females. Landmarks * Marketile Shihabikka * Dragon kung fu d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulikkal
Pulikkal or Cherukavu is a village in Malappuram district in the state of Kerala, India. Proposed Karipur-Kondotty Municipality The proposed Karipur-Kondotty Municipality comprises: *Kondotty panchayat (villages of Kondotty, and part of Karipur) *Nediyiruppu panchayat (villages of Nediyiruppu, and part of Karipur) *Pallikkal panchayat (villages of Pallikkal, and part of Karipur) *Pulikkal panchayat *Cherukavu panchayat *Vazhayur panchayat Total Area: 122.99 km2 Total Population (1991 Census): 152,839 Demographics India census, Pulikkal had a population of 35050 with 17481 males and 17569 females. Cherukavu Panchayath Most parts of Pulikkal town fall under the jurisdiction of Cherukavu Panchayath administration. The word Pulikkal is used to refer to the town and the word Cherukavu is used only by the bureaucracy. The actual center of Cherukavu village is in Kannamvettikkavu, five kilometers away from Pulikkal town. Currencyless Village In 2016, Pulikkal was declar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Malabar
South Malabar refers to a geographical area of the southwestern coast of India covering some parts of the present-day Kerala. South Malabar covers the regions included in present-day Kozhikode Tehsil, taluk of Kozhikode district, the whole area of Malappuram district, Chavakkad taluk of Thrissur district, and Palakkad district, excluding parts of Chittur, Palakkad, Chittur taluk. The Fort Kochi region of Kochi city also historically belongs to South Malabar. The term South Malabar refers to the region of the erstwhile Malabar District south to the river Korapuzha, and bears a high cultural similarity to both the Kingdom of Cochin, Cochin (Thrissur-Kochi region) and the North Malabar region. Under British rule, South Malabar's chief importance lay in producing coconut, Malabar pepper, pepper, and tiles. In the old administrative records of the Madras Presidency, it is recorded that the most remarkable plantation owned by government in the erstwhile Madras Presidency was the teak pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ideal Higher Secondary School, Dharmagiri
Ideal Higher Secondary School, Dharmagiri is a privately owned school situated at Cherekkad, near Karipur in Malappuram district, Kerala state. Run by Vengara Islamic Charitable Trust, it provides education up to class 12 in Kerala state syllabus along with religious moral studies. The school is situated in a scenic village near Karipur International Airport Calicut International Airport , also known as Kozhikode Airport or Karipur Airport, is an international airport located in Karipur, Malappuram district of Kerala, India. It serves the Malabar region of Kozhikode, Malappuram, Wayanad and Palak .... References {{Education in Kerala Schools in Malappuram district High schools and secondary schools in Kerala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerala
Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South Canara, and Thiruvithamkoor. Spread over , Kerala is the 21st largest Indian state by area. It is bordered by Karnataka to the north and northeast, Tamil Nadu to the east and south, and the Lakshadweep Sea to the west. With 33 million inhabitants as per the 2011 census, Kerala is the 13th-largest Indian state by population. It is divided into 14 districts with the capital being Thiruvananthapuram. Malayalam is the most widely spoken language and is also the official language of the state. The Chera dynasty was the first prominent kingdom based in Kerala. The Ay kingdom in the deep south and the Ezhimala kingdom in the north formed the other kingdoms in the early years of the Common Era (CE). The region had been a prominent spic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kondotty
Kondotty is a developing town, municipality, and aerotropolis in the Malappuram district state of Kerala, India which is located near Calicut International Airport, 24 km from Malappuram. It is the headquarters of Kondotty Taluk, which was declared as the seventh taluk in Malappuram district by chief minister Oommen Chandy on 23 December 2013. Nediyiruppu region of Kondotty municipality was the original headquarters of the powerful dynasty of the Zamorins of Calicut (''Eradi'' dynasty), who were actually the rulers of Eranad. The royal family of Zamorins is also known as ''Nediyiruppu Swaroopam''. Kondotty is famous for the ''Kondotty Nercha'' (Malayalam for 'offering') in the Pazhayangadi Mosque. Kondotty is the birthplace of the Mappila poet, Moyinkutty Vaidyar, where there is a memorial dedicated to him. He popularised ''Mappilapattu'' (Mappila songs) by his poems on secular and romantic themes. History The history of Kondotty is connected with that of the 18th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilambur
Nilambur is a major town, a municipality and a Taluk in the Malappuram district of the Indian state of Kerala. It is located close to the Nilgiris range of the Western Ghats on the banks of the Chaliyar River. This place is also known as 'Teak Town' because of the abundance of Nilambur teaks in this area; Which is a variety of a large, deciduous tree that occurs in mixed hardwood forests. Unlike many Municipalities of India; Nilambur is covered with large amounts of vegetation making it close to nature and hence make it very scenic and inspiring. In the British records, Nilambur and its surroundings are collectively described as ''Nilambur Valley''. The bank of river Chaliyar at Nilambur region is also known for natural Gold fields. Explorations done at the valley of the river Chaliyar in Nilambur has shown reserves of the order of 2.5 million cubic meters of placers with 0.1 gram per cubic meter of gold. The hilly forested area of Nilambur Taluk forms a portion of the Nil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parappanangadi
Parappanangadi, , is a major town and a municipality in Tirurangadi taluk of Malappuram district, Kerala, India. It is a coastal town located close to the Arabian sea. Parappanangadi railway station is one of the oldest railway stations in Kerala. It was a part of the first rail route (Tirur–Chaliyam) in Kerala. Parappanangadi is located north of Tanur, Malappuram, Tanur on Tirur-Kadalundi Tipu Sultan Road. The town lies on the bank of Kadalundi River. Parappanangadi town is located north of the estuary of Poorappuzha River, which is a tributary of Kadalundi River, and south of the estuary of Kadalundi River, which lies in Vallikkunnu. Parappanangadi was one of the major ports in the southwestern coast of India during the medieval period. It was ruled by the kingdom of Parappanad, who were vassals to the Zamorin of Calicut, and had the jurisdiction up to Beypore port to the north. In the early medieval period, under the chiefs of Kozhikode and Parappanangadi, Parappanangadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malappuram Metropolitan Area
The Malappuram Metropolitan Area or Malappuram Urban Agglomeration is an urban agglomeration centred around the city of Malappuram, Manjeri in Malappuram district, Kerala, India. It is the 25th largest urban agglomeration in India and the 4th largest in Kerala. It consists of Malappuram municipality, its adjoining municipalities, and census towns. It has a population of 1.7 million as per the 2011 Census of India. It is the only city in Kerala with a million-plus urban agglomeration that is yet to be upgraded to a Municipal Corporation. It is the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the world with a 44.1% urban growth between 2015 and 2020 as per the survey conducted by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) based on urban area growth during January 2020. As of 2011, Malappuram metropolitan area has a literacy rate of 94.14%, which is higher than the national urban average of 85%. Constituents of the urban agglomeration According to the 2011 census, the Malappuram metropolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feroke
Feroke (), is a Municipality and a part of Kozhikode metropolitan area under Kozhikode Development Authority (K.D.A) in the Kozhikode district of the Indian state of Kerala. Feroke municipality shares the border with Kozhikode corporation, Ramanattukara municipality and kadalundi panchayat. Feroke is located 11 km away from Kozhikode city. Feroke is developing as a Suburb of kozhikode city and Feroke is a part of Kozhikode urban area masterplan. Name The village was originally named Farookhabad by Tippu Sultan. Later, this was changed to Feroke by the British. Tipu Sulthan wanted to make Feroke as his capital in Malabar. The remains of a fort built by Tipu Sultan still stands in Feroke with a long tunnel to the river. Authorities are trying to preserve the fort remains as a site of historical importance. The old bridge at Feroke was built by the British in 1883. History Feroke, on the southern bank of Chaliyar river, was adjacent to the kingdom of Parappanad during m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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