Cranganore

Cranganore (properly Kodungallūr), a town in Cochin state, on one of the openings of the great Cochin backwater, 18 miles N. of Cochin town; pop. about 10,000. It is the traditional scene of St Thomas's labours. The Syrian Christians were established here before the 9th century, and the Jews' settlement was probably still earlier. It was taken from the Portuguese by the Dutch in 1661; was seized by Tippoo in 1776, retaken, sold, and destroyed and abandoned by Tippoo in 1789.