Tirur Taluk
Taluk
Location in Malappuram district, Kerala, India
Location in Malappuram district, Kerala, India
Coordinates: 11°09′09″N 75°57′24″E / 11.152610°N 75.956678°E / 11.152610; 75.956678
Country India
StateKerala
DistrictMalappuram
Taluk formation1 November 1957 (1957-11-01)
Founded byGovernment of Kerala
HeadquartersTirur
Languages
 • OfficialMalayalam, English
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registrationKL-55

Tirur Taluk comes under Tirur revenue division in Malappuram district of Kerala, India.[1] Its headquarters is the town of Tirur.[1] Tirur Taluk contains four municipalities - Tanur, Tirur, Kottakkal, and Valanchery.[1] Most of the administrative offices are located in the Mini-Civil Stations at Tirur, Kuttippuram, and Tanur. Most of the villages in present-day Tirur Taluk were parts of the medieval Kingdom of Tanur (Vettathunadu).[2] The port of Tanur was an important port town in the southwestern coast of India during medieval period.[2]

Tirur

History

Tirur Taluk was formed on 1 November 1957 by carving 43 villages out of the Old Ponnani taluk and 30 villages out of the Old Eranad Taluk.[3] Tirur, Tanur, and Kuttippuram Revenue blocks were taken from the Old Ponnani taluk while the Revenue blocks of Tirurangadi and Vengara were taken out of the Old Eranad Taluk.[3] At that time, Tirur Taluk was the largest coastal Taluk in Kerala which had contained the entire coastal belt wedged between Beypore port and Ponnani port (having nearly 65 km seacoast). Later on 16 June 1969, three villages, namely Feroke, Ramanattukara, and Kadalundi, were transferred from Tirur Taluk to Kozhikode Taluk, and Parudur village from Kuttippuram block was transferred to the Ottapalam Taluk.[4] Later in the 1990s, the Revenue blocks of Tirurangadi and Vengara were separated from Tirur Taluk to form Tirurangadi Taluk, and the revenue villages of Kottakkal and Ponmala were added newly to Tirur Taluk from Eranad Taluk.[5]

Currently, Tirur Taluk, having 30 villages, is the most populous Taluk of Malappuram District.[5]

Villages

Tirur taluk contains the following 30 villages.[1]

  1. Ananthavoor
  2. Athavanad
  3. Cheriyamundam
  4. Edayur
  5. Irimbiliyam
  6. Kalpakanchery
  7. Kattiparuthy
  8. Kottakkal
  9. Kurumbathur
  10. Kuttippuram
  11. Mangalam
  12. Marakkara
  13. Melmuri
  14. Naduvattom
  15. Niramaruthur
  16. Ozhur
  17. Pariyapuram
  18. Perumanna
  19. Ponmala
  20. Ponmundam
  21. Purathur
  22. Tanalur
  23. Tanur
  24. Thalakkad
  25. Tirunavaya
  26. Tirur
  27. Trikkandiyur
  28. Triprangode
  29. Valavannur
  30. Vettom

Notable people from Tirur Taluk

Tirur region

Kottakkal region

Valanchery region

Taluks of Malappuram

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Villages, Taluks, and Revenues divisions that make up Malappuram district". Official website of Malappuram district.
  2. 1 2 Logan, William (2010). Malabar Manual (Volume-I). New Delhi: Asian Educational Services. pp. 631–666. ISBN 9788120604476.
  3. 1 2 Devassy, M. K. (1965). District Census Handbook (2) - Kozhikode (1961) (PDF). Ernakulam: Government of Kerala.
  4. ↑ K. Narayanan (1972). District Census Handbook - Malappuram (Part-C) - 1971 (PDF). Thiruvananthapuram: Directorate of Census Operations, Kerala. p. 3.
  5. 1 2 Directorate of Census Operations, Kerala. District Census Handbook, Malappuram (PDF). Thiruvananthapuram: Directorate of Census Operations, Kerala.
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