Parappanad

[1] The headquarters of Parappanad Royal family was at the town Parappanangadi in present-day Malappuram district.

[2] Pliny the Elder (1st century CE) states that the port of Tyndis was located at the northwestern border of Keprobotos (Chera dynasty).

[9][10][11][12] According to Qissat Shakarwati Farmad, the Masjids at Kodungallur, Kollam, Madayi, Barkur, Mangalore, Kasaragod, Kannur, Dharmadam, Panthalayini, and Chaliyam (just opposite to Vallikkunnu), were built during the era of Malik Dinar, and they are among the oldest Masjids in the Indian subcontinent.

They were one of the Kshatriya claiming lineages of medieval Kerala along with the neighbouring Vettathunad rulers and the Cochin Royal Family.

[15] A major portion of the oldest railway line of Kerala laid in 1861 from Tirur to Chaliyam through Tanur, Parappanangadi, Vallikkunnu, and Kadalundi lies in Parappanad.

[21][22] The estate of Kilimanoor originally belonged to a Pillai ruling chief and was forfeited to Travancore by Maharaja Marthanda Varma.

The estate comprising several villages was then handed over to the family of the father of the King who had come south from Parappanad in Malabar around 1718.

In 1740, when an allied force,[25] led by Dutchman Captain Hockert supporting the Deshinganadu King, attacked Venad, an army from Kilimanoor resisted and then defeated them.

In 1753, in recognition of this feat, Marthanda Varma exempted the areas controlled by the Kilimanoor palace[26] from taxes, and granted them autonomous status.

[29] Velu Thampi Dalawa held meetings at Kilimanoor palace while planning uprisings against the British.