Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, is an Indian city, the second largest urban agglomeration in the state of Kerala and the twentieth largest in the country with a population of 2 million as recorded in 2011. Kozhikode was called the City of Spices for its position as the main trading point of Indian spices during the Classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. A historic city, it was the capital of an independent Middle Age kingdom ruled by the Samoothiris. Calicut is one of Kerala's most important economic hubs. Service sector dominates market led by industry. Cyberpark, an agency of the Government of Kerala, aims to construct, operate and manage IT parks in the Malabar region of Kerala to encourage and grow investment in the IT and ITES industries. This will be Kerala's third-largest This centre.
History: Kozhikode was the capital of an independent samoothiris-ruled kingdom in the Middle Ages, and later of the former Malabar district under British control. Arab traders traded with the area as early as the seventh century, and on 20 May 1498, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama landed at Kozhikode, opening up a trade route between Europe and Malabar. A Portuguese factory and the fort were intact for a short time in Kozhikode (1511–1525 until Calicut's fall). The English had arrived in 1615 (building a trading post in 1665), followed by the French (1698) and the Dutch (1752). In 1765, as part of its invasion of Malabar Coast, Mysore captured Kozhikode. Kozhikode, once a popular cotton-weaving centre, gave its name to the arrival of the Calico cloth.vVasco da Gama in Calicut in 1498, inaugurated in six centuries of rule of the Portuguese Empire in India, which lasted until 1961.
History: Kozhikode was the capital of an independent samoothiris-ruled kingdom in the Middle Ages, and later of the former Malabar district under British control. Arab traders traded with the area as early as the seventh century, and on 20 May 1498, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama landed at Kozhikode, opening up a trade route between Europe and Malabar. A Portuguese factory and the fort were intact for a short time in Kozhikode (1511–1525 until Calicut's fall). The English had arrived in 1615 (building a trading post in 1665), followed by the French (1698) and the Dutch (1752). In 1765, as part of its invasion of Malabar Coast, Mysore captured Kozhikode. Kozhikode, once a popular cotton-weaving centre, gave its name to the arrival of the Calico cloth.vVasco da Gama in Calicut in 1498, inaugurated in six centuries of rule of the Portuguese Empire in India, which lasted until 1961.