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Kollam district, earlier called Quilon district, is one of the 14 districts of Kerala state, India. The district is representative of all the natural attributes of Kerala states, and is endowed with a long coastal region, a major sea port on the Arabian Sea, plains and the mountains, lakes, lagoons and Kerala Backwaters, forests and the farm land, and rivers and streams. The area had mercantile relationship with Phoenicians and the Romans.
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- ↑ Kollam, Ashtamudi Lake - great alternatives to Kochi, Vembanad Lake
- ↑ "Kerala's cashew industry survives on foreign nuts". commodityonline. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ↑ "Statistics - CEPCI" . Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ↑ CEPCI
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 October 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
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- ↑ "KSCDC - Kollam" . Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ↑ "EXPOTERS DIRECTORY - CEPCI (Page 1-82)" . Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ↑ "ASSOCIATE MEMBER - CEPCI (Page 1-10)" . Retrieved 23 December 2015.
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