Kollam, formerly known as Quilon, is a city in Kerala which is also the headquarters of a district by the same name. It is bound on the south by Thiruvananthapuram district, on the north by Pathanamthitta and Alappuzha, on the east by Tamil Nadu and on the west by the Arabian Sea. It has one of the largest fresh water lakes. It is a very beautiful place to visit. The district is very famous for cashew processing and coir manufacturing.
About thirty per cent of this district is covered by the Ashtamudi Lake, there by making it the gateway to the backwaters of the state. India’s most popular English magazine India Today has rated Kollam as the best district in the country in terms of law and order and social harmony.
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Prime Minister visits relief camp in Kollam, Kerala (http://news.newkerala.com/kerala-news/?action=fullnews&id=53018)
QUILON, a seaport of India, on the Malabar coast, in the state of Travancore.
Besides being on a projecting point, Quilon is rendered still more unsafe to approach by the bank of hard ground called the Tangasseri reef, which extends some distance to the south-west and west of the point and along the coast to the northward.
Quilon is one of the oldest towns on the Malabar coast, and continued to be a place of considerable importance down to the beginning of the 16th century.
The Diocese of Quilon comprises the major part of the civil district of Kollam, the taluk of Karthikapally, portions of the taluks of Mavelikara and Chengannur which lie south of the river Pamba, in the civil district of Alappuzha.
Quilon was one of the seven churches founded by the Apostle St. Thomas, and of the two Bishops, who tradition says, were appointed by the Apostle, one had his See at Quilon (the other being at Cranganore or Angamaly).
The separation of Quilon, as a new Vicariate Apostolic, suffragan to Verapoly was decreed and was provisionally executed on May 12, 1845, entrusting it to the Belgian Carmelite Fathers, and finally confirmed as a separate Vicariate Apostolic on March 15, 1853.
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