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Encyclopedia Britannica



QUILON

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 751 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY
QUILON , a seaport of India, on the Malabar
coast
 , in the state of Travancore. Pop. (1901) 15,691. Quilon enjoys
great
  facilities of water communication, and has an active export trade in timber, coco-nuts, ginger, pepper, &c. The palace of the maharaja of Travancore stands on the bank of Quilon lake, a beautiful 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 reef, which extends some distance to the
south
 -west and west of the point and along the
coast
  to the northward. There is good anchorage, however, in a bight about 3 M. from the fort. Quilon is one of the oldest towns on the Malabar coast, and continued to be a place of considerable importance down to the beginning of the 16th century. It is now the headquarters of the Travancore army, with a subsidiary battalion.
Cotton
  weaving and spinning and the manufacture of tiles are the
chief
 
industries
 . It is the terminus of a railway across the hills from Tinnevelly. Adjoining Quilon is the British
village
  of Tangasseri, formerly a Portuguese and then a Dutch
settlement
 , which is administered with Anjengo; pop. (1901) 1733.


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