Calicut

(kalə kut′)

seaport in SW India, on the Arabian Sea: pop. 420,000

See Calicut in American Heritage Dictionary 4

A city of southwest India on the Malabar Coast southwest of Bangalore. It was the site of Vasco da Gama's first landfall in India (1498) and was later occupied by Portuguese, British, French, and Danish trading colonies. Population: 436,000.
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