Names for Kollam

Kollam, a city in the Indian state of Kerala, is referred to by various names by travellers throughout history. Some of the historic names for Kollam include:

Number Name Description
1 Quilon This is the anglicized version of the name Kollam.[1] Quilon was the name used by the Portuguese, Dutch, and British during their colonial rule in the region.
2 Desinganadu Kollam was a part of the ancient kingdom of Desinganadu. Desinganadu was known for its trade connections with foreign countries, and Kollam served as an important port city during that time. After the king Jayasimha from whom the Venad dynasty is supposed to have originated.[2]
3 Venad Kollam was also a prominent city in the kingdom of Venad, which was one of the major feudal kingdoms in Kerala. The rulers of Venad had their capital at Kollam for some time before it was shifted to the nearby city of Padmanabhapuram. [3][4]
4 Kurakkeni Kollam Seen in some inscriptions and plates [5]
5 Elancon Kollam has existed for many centuries and was called Elancon by early travellers[6]
6 Kaulam Mali Used by the Arabs[7] Solyman (851) used as Kaulam Malay
7 Coilum by the 13th-century Venetian traveler Marco Polo (Polo, Marco) [8]
8 Male Cosmas Indicopleustes used this terminology[9]
9 Chulam Jewish traveller Benjamin of Tudela (1166) referred to kollam as Chulam[10]
10 Kiulan Jean Pierre Guillaume Pauthier termed by this name while referring to some chinese documents.[11]
11 Coilon/Coilun Mamluk-era geographer, historian Abulfeda (1273 C.E.) [12]
12 Kulam Italian merchant Marco Polo (1298 C.E.) [13]
13 Polumbum Odoric of Pordenone (1322), Italian late-medieval Franciscan friar and missionary explorer.[14]
14 Colonbio The Palatine MSS of Odoric (1322)
15 Columbum Jordanus (1328), John of Marignolli (1348)[15]
16 Colombo Letters of Pope John XXII to the Christians of Quilon (1330)[16]
17 Kaulam Ibn Battuta (1343), explorer who travelled extensively in the lands of Afro-Eurasia, largely in the Muslim world.[17][18][19]
18 Coloen Niccolò de' Conti (1430), Italian merchant, explorer, and writer.[20]
19 Colon Ludovico di Varthema (1510), Italian traveller, diarist and aristocrat. [21]
20 Coulam Duarte Barbosa, Portuguese writer and officer from Portuguese India (between 1500 and 1516).(1516)[22]
21 Colour Sammario Ramusio [23]
22 Colam GD Empoli (1530)[24]
23 Polomee/Polumbum Used in the book Travels of Sir John Mandeville 1592.[25]
24 Mahali During the time of Tang Dynasty of China.[26]
25 Tarsish Seen in some plates and inscriptions.[27]

References
  1. https://www.keralatourism.org/kerala-article/2012/kollam-quilon/154
  2. https://kollam.nic.in/en/history/
  3. https://tapioca.co.in/history-of-kollam
  4. https://kollam.nic.in/en/history/
  5. "THARISAPPALLI AND ITS INITIAL ROLE IN MOBILIZING THE TRADE OF QUILON".
  6. "Kollam". Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias.
  7. "Arab Accounts of Malabar History: The Early Episodes" (PDF).
  8. Marco Polo. The Travels of Marco Polo. pp. Book 3, Chapter 22.
  9. Menon, A. Sreedhara, Kerala District Gazetteers: Quilon (1964). Kerala District Gazetteers: Quilon. The Government Press, Trivandrum.
  10. https://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/mhl/mhl20.htm#fn_82
  11. "Kerala District Gazetteers: Quilon". indianculture.gov.in.
  12. "A Monthly of Dravidian Linguistics Association of India" (PDF).
  13. "Kerala District Gazetteers: Quilon". indianculture.gov.in.
  14. "Cathay and the Way Thither. Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China". Fr. Odoric discourseth of the manners of the idolaters of Polumbum.
  15. "A Monthly of Dravidian Linguistics Association of India" (PDF).
  16. "The great-great-grandfather of Columbus originated in India: Latin documents".
  17. "1902 Encyclopedia > Ibn Battuta".
  18. Gibb & Beckingham 1994, p. 818 Vol. 4.
  19. "The Travels Of Ibn Battuta 1325– 1354 Volume I-IV".
  20. "Nicolo Conti, A Fifteen Century Traveler In Malabar".
  21. The travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia, A.D. 1503 to 1508 (PDF).
  22. Longworth Dames, Mansel (ed.). "The Book of Duarte Barbosa: An Account of the Countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their Inhabitants".
  23. Menon, T. K. Krishna (ed.). "History Of Kerala Vol. 1".
  24. "A Monthly of Dravidian Linguistics Association of India" (PDF).
  25. "Indexed Glossary of Proper Names". d.lib.rochester.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
  26. "History of Kollam".
  27. "Tharisapalli Plates".
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