Frontier town · Contested ground · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Kasaragod

A march town on the Tulu-Kerala border near the Chandragiri river, where the Alupa and Kolathiri claims meet.

A river-mouth market with a mixed Hindu and Muslim merchant community.

Who holds it

Name
No holder pinned: the Alupa claim from the north and the Kolathiri claim from the south meet at the Chandragiri
Title
lord or governor
Confidence
low

Lord in 1200

No holder pinned: the Alupa claim from the north and the Kolathiri claim from the south meet at the Chandragiri

How things stand that morning

A border ground; the holder is not pinned.

Places of note

  • Kasaragod: march town at the Chandragiri river

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Evidence is thin: the place and its setting are known; its officers and size in 1200 are not in the pages we read.

Sources and studies

  1. Alupas, Wikipedia (read for this sheet)
  2. Kolathunadu, Wikipedia (read for this sheet)
  3. OMNIA board notes for the place (a lead, checked against the other sources)

Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.