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Mavur
Mavoor is a town in the Kozhikode district of Kerala, India. It is located 19 km from Kozhikode city. Etymology The former name of Mavoor was Pulpparambu, or "hayfields" in Malayalam, as grass for thatching houses was stored in this town. (In Malayalam, ''pul'' means "grass/hay", and ''parampu'' means "field".) Geography Mavoor is located 21 km east of Kozhikode city, beside the Chaliyar River. Grasim factory Until the 1960s, Mavoor was like any other village in Kerala. During the 1963s the industrial house of Birla established a factory named "' Gwalior Rayons'" (later renamed as Grasim) at Mavoor for producing pulp and fibre on 316 acres of land. An integrated township with schools, a hospital, and a police station also came up. The arrival of Gwalior Rayons caused a rapid change in the area. In 1985 Grasim shut down for three years. The disruption caused to the local economy was significant. 11 suicides in Mavoor were attributed to this. In 1988, the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mavoor
Mavoor is a town in the Kozhikode district of Kerala, India. It is located 19 km from Kozhikode city. Etymology The former name of Mavur, Mavoor was Pulpparambu, or "hayfields" in Malayalam, as grass for thatching houses was stored in this town. (In Malayalam, ''pul'' means "grass/hay", and ''parampu'' means "field".) Geography Mavoor is located 21 km east of Kozhikode city, beside the Chaliyar River. Grasim factory Until the 1960s, Mavoor was like any other village in Kerala. During the 1963s the industrial house of Birla established a factory named "'Gwalior Rayons'" (later renamed as Grasim) at Mavoor for producing pulp and fibre on 316 acres of land. An integrated township with schools, a hospital, and a police station also came up. The arrival of Gwalior Rayons caused a rapid change in the area. In 1985 Grasim shut down for three years. The disruption caused to the local economy was significant. 11 suicides in Mavoor were attributed to this. In 1988, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mavur
Mavoor is a town in the Kozhikode district of Kerala, India. It is located 19 km from Kozhikode city. Etymology The former name of Mavoor was Pulpparambu, or "hayfields" in Malayalam, as grass for thatching houses was stored in this town. (In Malayalam, ''pul'' means "grass/hay", and ''parampu'' means "field".) Geography Mavoor is located 21 km east of Kozhikode city, beside the Chaliyar River. Grasim factory Until the 1960s, Mavoor was like any other village in Kerala. During the 1963s the industrial house of Birla established a factory named "' Gwalior Rayons'" (later renamed as Grasim) at Mavoor for producing pulp and fibre on 316 acres of land. An integrated township with schools, a hospital, and a police station also came up. The arrival of Gwalior Rayons caused a rapid change in the area. In 1985 Grasim shut down for three years. The disruption caused to the local economy was significant. 11 suicides in Mavoor were attributed to this. In 1988, the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malayalam
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 Languages with official status in India, scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was designated a "Classical Languages of India, Classical Language of India" in 2013. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé, Puducherry, Mahé), and is also the primary spoken language of Lakshadweep. Malayalam is spoken by 35.6 million people in India. Malayalam is also spoken by linguistic minorities in the neighbouring states; with a significant number of speakers in the Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada districts of Karnataka, and Kanyakumari district, Kanyakumari, Coimbatore district, Coimbatore and Nilgiris district, Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. It is also spoken by the Malayali diaspora, Malayali Diaspora wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kodiyathur
Kodiyathur Panchayath is a Grama Panchayath in Kozhikode district, Kozhikode Taluk of Kozhikode district, Kozhikode district in the state of Kerala, India, India. Kodiyathur is surrounded by two rivers, Chaliyar and Iruvanjippuzha, Iruvazhinji. It is under Thiruvambady legislative constituency and Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency. The name Kodiyathur comes from "Kodi" Kuthiya "Uru". The Freedom fighter Mohammed Abdur Rahiman, Muhammed Abdur Rahiman died near Kodiyathur. Social worker B. P. Moideen is also from here. Kodiyathur Panchayath is bordered with Mukkam Municipality and Chathamangalam and Karassery Grama Panchayaths of Kozhikode district and Urangattiri, Kizhuparamba and Vazhakkad Grama Panchayaths of Malappuram district, Malappuram district. Kodiyathur Panchayath has higher literacy rate compared to Kerala. In 2011, literacy rate of Kodiyathur Village was 94.82% compared to 94.00% of Kerala. In Kodiyathur Male literacy stands at 96.28% while female literacy rate was 93.4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheruvadi
Cheruvadi is a village in the Kozhikode district of Kerala. It is located 24 kilometres east of Kozhikode Kozhikode (), also known as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. Known as the City of Spices, Kozhikode is listed among the City of Literature, UNESCO's Cities of Literature. It is the nineteenth large .... Climate Cheruvadi has a humid and hot climate extending from March to May. The rain starts from June, lasting up to October. The North East Monsoon extends from the second half of October through November. The average annual rainfall is 3313 mm. The best weather is at the end of the year, in December and January, when the sky is clear and the air is crispy. The highest temperature recorded was 37.4 °C in March 2017. The lowest was 14 °C recorded on 26 December 1922. References {{Kozhikode district Villages in Kozhikode district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunnamangalam
Kunnamangalam is a growing census town located about 14 km east of Kozhikode city on National highway 766. Nearby places are Koduvally, Mukkam, Chathamangalam, and Kattangal. India's premier educational institutions like Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIMK), National Institute of Technology Calicut, National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology, Indian Institute of Spices Research, and Kerala School of Mathematics, Kozhikode are located here. Kunnamangalam is developing as a suburb of Kozhikode, Kunnamangalam is the east side entry of Calicut city. Nearest towns * Kalpetta (50 km north) * Karanthur (2 km east) * Koduvally (7 km Northeast) * Koyilandy (33 km North West) * Kozhikode (15 km west) * Moozhikkal (5 km west) * Mukkam (14 km east) * Narikkuni (9 km east) * Thamarassery (15 km northeast) Conveyance *Bus Transportation: Kunnamangalam is well connected to all major parts of Kerala. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kodiyathur
Kodiyathur Panchayath is a Grama Panchayath in Kozhikode district, Kozhikode Taluk of Kozhikode district, Kozhikode district in the state of Kerala, India, India. Kodiyathur is surrounded by two rivers, Chaliyar and Iruvanjippuzha, Iruvazhinji. It is under Thiruvambady legislative constituency and Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency. The name Kodiyathur comes from "Kodi" Kuthiya "Uru". The Freedom fighter Mohammed Abdur Rahiman, Muhammed Abdur Rahiman died near Kodiyathur. Social worker B. P. Moideen is also from here. Kodiyathur Panchayath is bordered with Mukkam Municipality and Chathamangalam and Karassery Grama Panchayaths of Kozhikode district and Urangattiri, Kizhuparamba and Vazhakkad Grama Panchayaths of Malappuram district, Malappuram district. Kodiyathur Panchayath has higher literacy rate compared to Kerala. In 2011, literacy rate of Kodiyathur Village was 94.82% compared to 94.00% of Kerala. In Kodiyathur Male literacy stands at 96.28% while female literacy rate was 93.4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of statistics. This term is used mostly in connection with Population and housing censuses by country, national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include Census of agriculture, censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications, and other useful information to coordinate international practices. The United Nations, UN's Food ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsoon
A monsoon () is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in Atmosphere of Earth, atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator. Usually, the term monsoon is used to refer to the Wet season, rainy phase of a seasonally changing pattern, although technically there is also a dry phase. The term is also sometimes used to describe locally heavy but short-term rains. The major monsoon systems of the world consist of the Monsoon#Africa (West African and Southeast African), West African, Asian–Australian monsoon, Australian, the North American monsoon, North American, and South American monsoons. The term was first Glossary of the British Raj, used in English in British India and neighboring countries to refer to the big seasonal winds blowin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church (building)
A church, church building, church house, or chapel is a building used for Christian worship church service, services and Christian religion, Christian activities. The earliest identified Christian church is a house church founded between 233 AD and 256 AD. ''Church'' is also used to describe a Church (congregation), body or an assembly of Christian believers, while "the Church" may be used to refer to the worldwide Christian religious community as a whole. In traditional Christian architecture, the plan view of a church often forms a Christian cross with the centre aisle and seating representing the vertical beam and the Church architecture#Characteristics of the early Christian church building, bema and altar forming the horizontal. Towers or domes may inspire contemplation of the heavens. Modern churches have a variety of architectural styles and layouts. Some buildings designed for other purposes have been converted to churches, while many original church buildings have bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosque
A mosque ( ), also called a masjid ( ), is a place of worship for Muslims. The term usually refers to a covered building, but can be any place where Salah, Islamic prayers are performed; such as an outdoor courtyard. Originally, mosques were simple places of prayer for the early Muslims, and may have been open spaces rather than elaborate buildings. In the first stage of Islamic architecture (650–750 CE), early mosques comprised open and closed covered spaces enclosed by walls, often with minarets, from which the Adhan, Islamic call to prayer was issued on a daily basis. It is typical of mosque buildings to have a special ornamental niche (a ''mihrab'') set into the wall in the direction of the city of Mecca (the ''qibla''), which Muslims must face during prayer, as well as a facility for ritual cleansing (''wudu''). The pulpit (''minbar''), from which public sermons (''khutbah'') are delivered on the event of Friday prayer, was, in earlier times, characteristic of the central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple
A temple (from the Latin ) is a place of worship, a building used for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice. By convention, the specially built places of worship of some religions are commonly called "temples" in English, while those of other religions are not, even though they fulfill very similar functions. The religions for which the terms are used include the great majority of ancient religions that are now extinct, such as the Ancient Egyptian religion and the Ancient Greek religion. Among religions still active: Hinduism (whose temples are called Mandir or Kovil), Buddhism (whose temples are called Vihar), Sikhism (whose temples are called gurudwara), Jainism (whose temples are sometimes called derasar), Zoroastrianism (whose temples are sometimes called Agiary), the Baháʼí Faith (which are often simply referred to as Baháʼí House of Worship), Taoism (which are sometimes called Daoguan), Shinto (which are often called Jinja), C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
