THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1550–1765

Kingdom of Calicut (the Zamorin)

The Zamorins held south Malabar, from the Korapuzha river south to Chettuva, inland through Ernad and Nilambur, and fought Portugal and Cochin for a century. Palakkad (Palghat), under its own raja, and the northern Kolathiri lands were separate.

Hyder Ali conquered Calicut in 1766. Zamorins took personal names that are rarely recorded.

See Kingdom of Calicut (the Zamorin) on the map in 1550

On the map
1550–1765
Capital
Kozhikode (Calicut)

Rulers named in the sources

South Asian kingdoms, 1550–1857

From the fall of Vijayanagara's capital to the Revolt of 1857, beside the Mughal, Maratha, Durrani and British realms and a few successor states, many kingdoms ruled themselves. In the south: Travancore, Cochin, the Zamorin's Calicut, the Keladi Nayakas, the last Aravidu kings of Vijayanagara, the Nayaks of Gingee, and Mysore through the Wodeyar, Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan periods. In the Deccan and centre: the Gond kingdoms of Garha-Mandla, Deogarh and Chanda, Bastar, Ratanpur, Hyderabad after 1799, Nagpur, Satara, and the Holkar, Scindia and Gaekwad states after 1818. In the north: the Rajput kingdoms and Jat Bharatpur after the Mughal collapse, Rohilkhand, the reduced Awadh of 1803–56, Kumaon, Garhwal, Ladakh and Sikkim. In the east: the Ahom, Koch, Kachari, Jaintia, Manipur and Tripura kingdoms. In the west: Kutch and the Khanate of Kalat.

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