Quilon, a seaport on the
Malabar Coast, in Kerala state, India.
The palace of Maharaja of Travancore stands on the bank of Quilon Lake.
Quilon, town is
administrative headquarters of Quilon district.
It has existed of many centuries and was called Elancon by early
travelers. Kaulam Mall by the Arabs, and
Coilum by the 13th century Venetien traveler Marco Polo. Its location made it commercially important;
the first Europeans there were the Portuguese, followed by the Dutch in 1662
and then by the British.
The town is a port on the
Arabian Sea northwest of Trivandrum, the state capital. It lies next to Asthamudi Lake, an inlet of
the sea, and is linked with Alleppey and Cochin to the north by a system of
canals and lagoons. Quilon has an active
export trade and numerous industries, including mineral processing,
manufacturing, and processing of agricultural products, especially cashew nuts,
Kundara, a suburb to the northeast, has chemical, ceramic, and aluminium
plants. Quilon has more than five
colleges affiliated with the University of Kerala. A railway links it with towns to the north,
east and south.
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