Changanassery
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| Location : | 9 ° 28 ' N , 76 ° 33' E | ||
Changanassery (outdated also Changanacherry ) is a city in the district of Kottayam in the Indian state of Kerala . Changanassery is the gateway to the Western Ghats and Kuttanad . It is one of the most important educational and religious centers of Kerala with almost 100% literacy. There are five colleges, one vocational secondary school, eight secondary schools and ten high schools within four kilometers of the city .
geography
Changanassery is located 18 km south of Kottayam at an altitude of 12 m and is characterized by a tropical climate . Most of the year there is a lot of rainfall and few dry spells. The annual average temperature is 27.3 ° C, the annual rainfall is 3,021 mm.
In 2011, Changanassery had 127,987 inhabitants, compared to 36,000 in the 1951 census. The city is located near the triangle formed by the districts of Kottayam , Alappuzha and Pathanamthitta . Changanassery had one of the leading markets in Kerala, connecting the three districts.
history
The first written evidence of the origin of Changanacherry can be found in the Sangam literature . According to this, Uthiyan Cheralathan (Perum Chorru Udiyan Cheralathan, Athan I or Udiyanjeral around 130 AD) was the first ruler of the Chera dynasty in southern India. The capital of his empire was a place called Kuzhumur in Kuttanad . He expanded his empire north and east from his original homeland - izham or illam in Tamil . He was married to Veliyan Nalini, a daughter of Veliyan Venman.
Today's Changanacherry and Kuttanad was the capital of the Kera dynasty at that time, until it was burned down by Karikala Chola , the king of the neighboring Chola empire , and was given the name Kuzhumur in Chutta-nadu (= burned land), that of Kuttanad has been. Similarly, Keralathan is the Malayalam pronunciation of Tamil Cheralathan, and the world Keralam can be a derivative of Chera-izham or Kera-illam , which means Chera home in Tamil . Keralathan's descendant was Senguttavan Cheran (Chenguttavan means brave in Malayalam ); The cities of Chenganacherri and Chengana are named after him. Sengana-cherri means Sengans city in ancient Tamil . After the defeat of the Chera dynasty, the word cherri assumed the simultaneous meaning of land of the vanquished and was eventually equated as a slum in the kingdom of Chola .
Demographics
As of the 2011 India census, the total population of the Changanassery UA / Metropolitan Region was 127,987. The male population was 61,807 while the female population was 66,180. The child population (0–6 years old) of Changanassery UA represents approximately 9.02% of the total population of Changanassery UA, which is below the national urban average of 10.93%. The total number of children in the Changanassery metropolitan area was 11,550, of which 5,895 were boys and the remaining 5,655 were girls.
education
- LP School, Perunna (1880); founded by Kainikara Govinda Pillai
- St. Joseph's School, Changanassery (January 16, 1888)
- St. Mary's LP School, Changanassery (October 15, 1888)
- Government English High School, Puzhavathu (1889); later this school became the Changanassery Government High School
- St. Berchman's High School, Changanassery (February 3, 1891); the poet Ulloor S. Parameshwara Iyer, the brothers Kainikkara, Mar Antony Padiyara and Mar Joseph Powathil studied at this school.
- St. Berchman's College, Changanassery (June 19, 1922); the college was founded in a building (now a museum) near St. Mary's Parel Church. It was a junior college at Madras University. Graduate courses were started in 1927. Travencore University was founded on November 1, 1937, to which the college was attached. Postgraduate courses were started in 1957.
- NSS Hindu College, Perunna (June 1949); the college was located on the premises of the NSS High School and was relocated to a new building in 1955.
- Assumption College, Changanassery (1950), a college for women
- NSS Training College, Perunna
- NSS Homeo College, Kurichy
- St. Joseph College of Communication,
- Kristu Jyothi College, Chethipuzha
traffic
The state-run Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSrRTC) offers bus services to nearby cities. Separate private bus routes are available for those traveling to Eastern High Range areas. There is also a combined bus stop for private and state buses that go to western Changanassery ( Kuttanad ), southern Changanassery (Mavelikara) and northern Changanassery ( Kottayam ). There is a separate KSRTC bus terminal in the city center. State water transport is available to remote locations and larger cities nearby. Changanacherry Central Station serves the western Changanassery (Kuttanad) and the eastern Changanassery (Karukachal).
The nearest airport is Cochin International Airport , 106 km from Changanacherry.
Changanacherry Eparchy
The Eparchy Changanacherry (Latin Archieparchia Changanacherrensis) is an eparchy of the Syro-Malabar Church in Kerala, united with the Roman Catholic Church .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klima Changanassery Climate-data.org, accessed on March 24, 2020
- ↑ a b Census of India 2011: Data from the 2011 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional) - Census Commission of India ( Memento from June 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sailendra Sen: A Textbook of Medieval Indian History . Primus Books, 2013, ISBN 978-93-8060734-4 , pp. 60-61 .
- ↑ M. Thilakavathy: Sangam Tamils. With Special Reference To Paţţinapālai. New Delhi: MJP Publ. 2015. p. 32.
- ↑ Changanassery Railway Station Gets a Modern Makeover , manoramaonline.com, April 27, 2017, accessed May 23, 2020