Thiruvithan code
| Thiruvithancode திருவிதாங்கோடு |
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| State : | Tamil Nadu | ||
| District : | Kanyakumari | ||
| Sub-district : | Calculam | ||
| Location : | 8 ° 15 ′ N , 77 ° 18 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 18,723 (2011) | ||
Thiruvithancode ( Tamil : திருவிதாங்கோடு Tiruvitāṅkōṭu [ ˈt̪iɾɯʋid̪aːŋɡoːɖɯ ]; also: Thiruvithamcode, Thiruvithankodu ) is a small town in the Kanyakumari district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu .
Thiruvithancode is located in the extreme south of Tamil Nadu not far from the border with the neighboring state of Kerala around 40 kilometers northwest of the southern tip of India ( Kanyakumari ) and 17 kilometers northwest of the district capital Nagercoil . It is 23 kilometers to the Kerala border. Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), the capital of Kerala, is 60 kilometers to the northwest. Administratively, Thiruvithancode belongs to the Taluk Kalkulam of the Kanyakumari district.
Thiruvithancode is the ancestral seat of the ruling dynasty of Travancore (the name Travancore is a corruption of Thiruvithancode ). In the 16th century, the rulers of Travancore moved their residence to neighboring Padmanabhapuram (three kilometers east of Thiruvithancode), and finally to Thiruvananthapuram in the 18th century. During the British colonial period , the Kingdom of Travancore was a nominally independent princely state under British sovereignty and comprised the southern part of Kerala as well as today's Kanyakumari district. Through the States Reorganization Act of 1956, Thiruvithancode came to the state of Madras (now Tamil Nadu) with the rest of the Kanyakumari district.
In Thiruvithancode there is a small, very old church, which according to local tradition is said to have been founded by the apostle Thomas in 63 AD . According to the tradition of the Thomas Christians , Thomas is said to have come to India after the death of Jesus and founded "seven and a half" churches on the Malabar coast . The church of Thiruvithancode is considered to be "half the church" ( Arapally ). Today it is subordinate to the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church .
The population of Thiruvithancodes is 18,723 (2011 census). 42 percent of the population are Hindus and Muslims , 16 percent are Christians . As in the whole of Tamil Nadu, the main language is Tamil , which, according to the 2001 census, is spoken by 97 percent of Thiruvithancode's residents as their mother tongue. There are also some speakers of Malayalam , the language of neighboring Kerala.
Individual evidence
- ^ Census of India 2011.
- ↑ Nita Sathyendran: "The church that St. Thomas built", in: The Hindu, May 16, 2013.
- ^ Census of India 2011: C-1 Population By Religious Community. Tamil Nadu.
- ↑ Census of India 2001: C-16 City: Population by Mother Tongue (Tamil Nadu), accessed under Tabulations Plan of Census Year - 2001 .