Chirakkal

Chirakkal is a registration town in Kannur region in the territory of Kerala, India. It is 7 km from Kannur town. As per the Indian registration, Chirakkal has a populace of 43,290. Guys comprise 48% of the populace and females 52%. Chirakkal has a normal education rate of 84%, higher than the national normal of 59.5%; with male proficiency of 85% and female education of 82%. Eleven percent of the populace is under 6 years old.

The Kovilakam "Palace" in the Malayalam dialect of Kolathiris were in Chirakkal a place close to Kannur acclaimed as the seat of the Kolathiris. Kolathiri were otherwise called Chirakkal Raja or King of Chirakkal. The southern part of this family governed over Venad and is today known as the Travancore Royal Family. Kolathiris are the successors of Mooshiks Kings who ruled northern Kerala in the main century AD. The definite history of this tradition and shrouded history of this district is said in the "Mooshika Vamsham" a Sanskrit wonderful content, composed by Athulan in the tenth century AD.

Mooshika Vamsham is accepted to be one of the soonest Sanskrit books composed in view of the historical backdrop of northern Kerala. Kolathiris were political and business opponents of the Samoothiris Zamorins of Kozhikode. Bekal Fort now in Kasaragod and Chandragiri Fort were initially under the Chirakkal Rajas until the point when the season of Shivappa Naik's attack of Kolathunadu Nowadays the acknowledgment of the Chirakkal Raja is generally respected by the people specialists, particularly the Theyyam craftsmen.