Kozhikode

Kozhikode was a kingdom on India's Malabar coast, ruled by the Samoothiri or Zamorin. Its Eradi dynasty had moved its seat from Nediyiruppu after taking Kozhikode from the ruler of Polanadu.

Ibn Battuta recorded the Zamorin's title in 1342, when Kozhikode was a major spice port. Vasco da Gama landed nearby in 1498, and the Zamorin's Kunjali Marakkar admirals fought the Portuguese through the sixteenth century. In 1766 the Zamorin burned himself in his palace as Hyder Ali invaded; the 1792 Treaty of Seringapatam gave Malabar to the British East India Company.