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[[Cosmas Indicopleustes]], a Greek [[Nestorian Christian|Nestorian]] sailor,<ref>{{cite web|author=Roger Pearse |url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/pearse/morefathers/files/cosmas_00_0_eintro.htm |title=Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography. Preface to the online edition |publisher=Ccel.org |date=5 July 2003 |access-date=20 April 2013}}</ref> in his book the Christian Topography<ref>{{cite web|author=Roger Pearse |url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/pearse/morefathers/files/cosmas_11_book11.htm |title=Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (1897) pp. 358–373. Book 11 |publisher=Ccel.org |access-date=20 April 2013}}</ref> who visited the [[Malabar Coast]] in 550, mentions an enclave of Christian believers in ''Male'' ([[Malabar Coast]]). He writes, "In the island of Tabropane (Ceylon), there is a church of Christians, and clerics and faithful. Likewise at Male, where the pepper grows, and in the farming community of Kalliana (Kalliankal at Nillackal) there is also a bishop consecrated in Persia in accordance with the Nicea Sunnahadose of 325 AD."<ref>Travancore Manual</ref> The [[Nestorian Church|Nestorian]] Patriarch Jesujabus, who died in 660 AD, mentions Kollam in his letter to Simon, Metropolitan of Persia.
Kollam is also home to one of the oldest mosques in [[Indian subcontinent]]. According to the [[Legend of Cheraman Perumals]], the first Indian mosque was built in 624 AD at [[Kodungallur]] with the mandate of the last the ruler (the Cheraman Perumal) of [[Chera dynasty]], who left from [[Dharmadom]] to [[Mecca]] and converted to [[Islam]] during the lifetime of [[
===Capital of Venad (9th to 12th centuries)===
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