Kingdom of Cochin
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 138 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5109-1378-1
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kingdom of Cochin (also known as Perumpadappu Swaroopam, Mada-rajyam, Gosree Rajyam, or Kuru Swaroopam; Malayalam: ?????? Kocci or ????????????? Perumpa?appu) was a late medieval Hindu kingdom and later Princely State on the Malabar Coast, South India. Once controlling much of the territory between Ponnani and Kochi in Malabar, the Cochin kingdom shrank to its minimal extent as a result of invasions by the Zamorin of Calicut. When Portuguese armadas arrived in India, Cochin was in vassalage to Zamorin and was looking for an opportunity to break away. King Unni Goda Varma Tirumulpadu (Trimumpara Raja ) warmly welcomed Pedro Alvares Cabral and negotiated a treaty of alliance between Portugal and the Cochin kingdom, directed against the Zamorin of Calicut. Cochin became a long-time Portuguese ally providing assistance against native overlords. After the Portuguese, the Dutch East India Company followed soon after by the English East India...