Valapattanam

Valapattanam is a small town in the Kannur district, located in the Indian state of Kerala. It is additionally the littlest panchayath in Kerala. Its region is 2.04 sqr Km. It is around 7 km north of Kannur. Valapattanam is an essential Muslim settlement zone in Kannur. Valapattanam is known for its public amicability. On one side Kalarivathukkal Temple is found and on the other bank there is "Kakkulangara Mosque".

This town is named after its verifiable originator Vallabha II of the Mooshika administration Kolathiri family and was initially referred to as Vallabha-Pattanam and filled in as the capital of the Mooshika tradition amid the medieval ages. The fourteenth-century account of Ibn Battuta alludes to the leader of Ezhimala as dwelling at Baliapatanam and offers an intimation that at this point, the focal point of the political expert had moved from Ezhimala to Baliapatanam. In the sixteenth century AD, a Portuguese authority Duarte Barbosa additionally specifies Baliapatanam Baliapatam in European records as the living arrangement of the 'lord of Cannanore'.