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Kilimanoor
Sign in to savethumb|Ancient arch in Kilimanoor thumb|Studio of Raja Ravi Varma thumb|Puthen Malika Kilimanoor is a panchayat and a town in the Varkala taluk of Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala, India. It is located on MC/SH 1 Road, northwest of the city of Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), east of Attingal and east of Varkala.
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Thiruvananthapuram district
- Area
- 44.35
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Kottarakkara
- Image
- Kilimanoor nadaka sala.JPG
- Dialing code
- 0470
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- Kilimanoor
- postal code
- 695601
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thumb|Ancient arch in Kilimanoor thumb|Studio of Raja Ravi Varma thumb|Puthen Malika Kilimanoor is a panchayat and a town in the Varkala taluk of Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala, India. It is located on MC/SH 1 Road, northwest of the city of Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), east of Attingal and east of Varkala.
==History== Kilimanoor ("land of the bird and the deer") was ruled by a Pillai ruling chief and was forfeited to Travancore by Maharaja Marthanda Varma. The estate comprising several villages was then handed over to the family of the father of the King who had come south from Parappanad in Malabar around 1718. was ruled by a chief during time of the Ettuveetil Pillamar in the kingdom of Travancore. The chief rebelled against the Maharajah Marthanda Varma, and the region was annexed and later given to the Royal House of Kilimanoor.
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