Kollam
Kollam (Quilon)
Kollam
or Quilon, an old sea port town on the Arabian coast , stands on the Ashtamudi
lake. Kollam, the erstwhile Desinganadu, had a sustained commercial reputation
from the days of the Phoenicians and the Romans. Fed by the Chinese trade, it
was regarded by Ibn Batuta, as one of the five ports , which he had seen in
the course of his travels during a period of twenty four years, in the 14th
century.
Kollam District which is a veritable Kerala in miniature is gifted with unique
representative features - sea, lakes, plains, mountains, rivers, streams, backwaters,
forest, vast green fields and tropical crop of every variety both food crop
and cash crop, so called 'The Gods Own Capital'.
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