Kannur
Kannur :A district (and also the name of the town which is its headquarters)in northern Kerala, which is in southern part of India. Kannur or Cannanore district consists of three revenue districts or taluks, which are Thalassery, Kannur and Taliparamba. The total area of the district is 2,996 Sq Kms. It has a population of 24,412,365.
The name Kannur is derived from the two Malayalam words 'Kannan' (Sri Krishna) and 'Ur'(place). It is quite common in India that the names of villages and districts are associated with Indian mythological characters, even if there is no mention of such a village in the respective mythology. The name 'Kannur' also is not an exception.
There are lots of myths and legends associated with Kannur. It is said that the ships of Solomon had anchored along the coasts of Kannur to collect timber for building the 'Temple of the Lord'. Kannur finds mention as NAURA in the 'Periplus of the Erithrean Sea' a Greek work of great antiquity.
Formerly the capital of the Kolattiri Raja, it had engaged in trades with Arabia and Persia in the 12th and 13th centuries. Vasco da Gama visited Kannur in 1498 after which it became a Portuguese settlement. In the mid-17th centuries control of Kannur passed to the Dutch from whom the British captured it in 1783.
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