Editing Travancore (section)

====3. Quilon Division====

[[Kollam|Quilon]] was the capital of [[Venad]] and the largest port town in Travancore, and was also one of the oldest ports on [[Malabar Coast]].<ref name="Thiruvithamkoor"/> The 1911 Census of Travancore states that it was from Quilon division onwards that the genuine country of [[Malayalam]] starts.<ref name="Thiruvithamkoor"/> However, the [[Sengottai]] taluk of this division which was earlier under [[Kottarakkara]] Thampuran, was a [[Tamil people|Tamil]]-majority region.<ref name="Thiruvithamkoor"/> Geographically too Sengottai resembled to [[Madurai]] and [[Pandya Nadu]] than rest of the [[Malayalam]] country.<ref name="Thiruvithamkoor"/> The Quilon division encompassed present-day [[Kollam]] district, [[Pathanamthitta district|Pathanamthitta]] district, [[Alappuzha district|Alappuzha]] district and some parts of [[Kottayam district|Kottayam]] district.