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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 751 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUILON , a seaport of See also:

India, on the See also:Malabar See also:coast, in the See also:state of See also:Travancore. Pop. (1901) 15,691. Quilon enjoys See also:great facilities of See also:water communication, and has an active export See also:trade in See also:timber, coco-nuts, See also:ginger, See also:pepper, &c. The See also:palace of the maharaja of Travancore stands on the See also:bank of Quilon See also:lake, a beautiful See also:sheet of water. Besides being on a projecting point, Quilon is rendered still more unsafe to approach by the bank of hard ground called the Tangasseri See also:reef, which extends some distance to the See also:south-See also:west and west of the point and along the coast to the northward. There is See also:good anchorage, however, in a See also:bight about 3 M. from the fort. Quilon is one of the See also:oldest towns on the Malabar coast, and continued to be a See also:place of considerable importance down to the beginning of the 16th See also:century. It is now the headquarters of the Travancore See also:army, with a subsidiary See also:battalion. See also:Cotton See also:weaving and See also:spinning and the manufacture of tiles are the See also:chief See also:industries. It is the See also:terminus of a railway across the hills from See also:Tinnevelly. Adjoining Quilon is the See also:British See also:village of Tangasseri, formerly a Portuguese and then a Dutch See also:settlement, which is administered with Anjengo; pop.

(1901) 1733.

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