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Before the British Rule, Malabar was ruled by chieftains notably the Kolathiris of Kasargod, Zamorins of Calicut and the Valluvokonathiris of Walluvanad.
The Malabar Coast is an historic name for India's southwest coast, lying on the narrow coastal plain of of Karnataka and Kerala states between the Western Ghats range and the Arabian Sea. The coast runs from south of Goa to the Cape Comorin on India's southern tip.
The Malabar Coast is home to a number of historic port cities, notably KozhikodeKozhikode also known as Calicut is the third largest city (pop. 801,190:1991) in the state of Kerala, India and was part of erstwhile Malabar District. This city is famous for receiving Vasco da Gama in 1498. He landed in the remote beach Kappad which is (Calicut), CochinCochin can refer to: Cochin China Kingdom of Kochi, a former state of India, merged with Travancore to form the State of Kerala Cochin city, the former name of the city of Kochi, in Kerala., and Quilon, that have been centers of the Indian OceanThe Indian Ocean is the third-largest body of water in the world, covering about 20% of the Earth's water surface. It is bounded on the north by southern Asia (the Indian Sub-continent); on the west by the Arabian Peninsula and Africa; on the east by the trade for centuries. Because of their orientation to the sea and to maritime commerce, the Malabar coast cities are very cosmopolitan, and were home to some of the first groups of ChristianChristian is: a follower of the faith of Christianity a popular first name and surname, especially in Northern Europe According to the New Testament, those who followed Jesus as his disciples were first called Christians by those who did not share their fs, Jews, and Muslims in India.
The Malabar Coast, especially on its westward-facing mountain slopes, is the wettest region of southern India, as the Western Ghats intercept the moisture-laden monsoon rains. The Malabar rainforests refer to one or more distinct ecoregions recognized by biogeographers; the Malabar Coast moist forests formerly occupied the coastal zone to the 250 meter elevation, but 95% of these forests have been cleared; the South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests are found at intermediate elevations, and the South Western Ghats montane rain forests cover the areas above 1000 meters elevation.