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Malabar District
Malabar District
was an administrative district of
Madras Presidency
in
British India
and independent India's
Madras State
. The British district included the present-day districts of
Kannur
,
Kozhikode
,
Wayanad
,
Malappuram
,
Palakkad
(excluding the Alathur and Chittur Taluks), and
Chavakad Taluk
of
Thrissur District
(former part of
Ponnani Taluk
) in the northern part of
Kerala
state. The district lay between the
Arabian Sea
on the west,
South Canara District
on the north, the
Western Ghats
to the east, and the
princely state
of
Cochin
to the south. The district covered an area of , and extended along the coast and 40–120 kilometers (25–75 miles) inland. The name Mala-bar means the "hill country".
Kozhikode
is considered as the capital of Malabar.
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