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Chaul is a historic town located in the
Many foreign writers have mentioned Chaul.
The Portuguese Fort of Chaul, India
Chaul, a historical port
{{Authority control Former Portuguese colonies Populated places established in 1521 Cities and towns in Raigad district 1521 establishments in the Portuguese Empire Archaeological sites in Maharashtra
Raigad district
Raigad district (), previously Colaba fort, Colaba district, is a district in the Konkan division of Maharashtra, India.
The headquarters of the district is Alibag. Other major cities in the district are Panvel, Karjat, Navi Mumbai, Khopoli, Sh ...
of Maharashtra
Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...
, India. The Korlai Fort is located nearby.
History
Many foreign writers have mentioned Chaul. Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...
in his ''Geography of India'' calls the town Symullla or Timulla. The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
The ''Periplus of the Erythraean Sea'' (), also known by its Latin name as the , is a Greco-Roman world, Greco-Roman periplus written in Koine Greek that describes navigation and Roman commerce, trading opportunities from Roman Egyptian ports lik ...
mentions that it was a market south of Kalliena (Calliana).
The Portuguese arrived at Chaul in 1505 and established a factory in 1516. The city was then looted by the troops of the Bijapur Sultanate in 1521, the Gujarat Sultanate
The Gujarat Sultanate or Sultanate of Gujarat was a late medieval Islamic Indian kingdom in Western India, primarily in the present-day state of Gujarat. The kingdom was established in 1394 when Muzaffar Shah I, the Governor of Gujarat, decla ...
in 1529 and finally passed to the Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire was an Early modern period, early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to ...
in 1600.
The town was famous for cotton manufactured goods in the 15th and 16th century, according to Varthema, Chaul was producing many cotton stuffs. Even Portuguese explorer and writer Duarte Barbosa conceded the fame of Chaul for cotton materials.
The city was annexed by the Maratha Empire
The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern India, early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent. It comprised the realms of the Peshwa and four major independent List of Maratha dynasties and states, Ma ...
in 1740, being ruled by the Angre family and then was conquered from them by the British EIC.
See also
* Battle of Chaul * Battle of Diu * RevdandaReferences
External links
The Portuguese Fort of Chaul, India
Chaul, a historical port
{{Authority control Former Portuguese colonies Populated places established in 1521 Cities and towns in Raigad district 1521 establishments in the Portuguese Empire Archaeological sites in Maharashtra