Calicut is the anglicised form of Kalikut. The Arabic for the Malayalam
, Kozhikode. It is also called the Cock Fort. According to the historian,
K.V Krishnan Iyer, the term means koyil (Palace) Kodu (Fortified).
Anyhow, it is a historical town with a hoary past. From time immemorial,
the city attracted travellers, with its charming physical features
and prosperity. Even today , the glory that was Calicut has not faded.
The political history of Kozhikode is a story of treacherous and ill
conceived conspiracies hatched by the Western powers. Vasco De Gama
landed at Kappad in May 1498, as the leaders of a trade mission
from Portugal and was received by the Zamorin himself.
The history of Kozhikode district as an administrative unit
begins from January 1957. When the states of the Indian Union were
reorganised on linguistic basis on 1st November, 1956, the erstwhile
Malabar district was separated from Madras state (Tamil Nadu) and
added to the new unilingual state of Kerala. But malabar district
was found to be too uniwieldy for administrative purposes. Consequently
the state government ordered the formation of three districts with
certain changes in the boundaries of some of the taluks. The Kozhikode
district thus came into existence on 1st Jnauary 1957,orginally consisting
of five taluks, Viz, Vadakara, Koyilandy, Kozhikode, Ernad &
Tirur. With the formation of malapuram district on 1st june 1969 &
Wayandu on 1st November 1980, kozhikode district now consist of one
revenue division , three taluks, twelve blocks, 77 panchayats and
117 villages
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