Example sentences for: malabar

How can you use “malabar” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The earliest Christians other than St. Thomas (see page 197), were the so-called Nestorian “heretics” of the Syrian Orthodox Church, also living on the Malabar coast since the first centuries of the Christian era.

  • Down on the Malabar coast, the great Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama landed in 1498, paving the way for his countrymen to form a settlement in Goa.

  • The forested Malabar coast in the west is sown with crops of coconut, betel-nut, pepper, rubber, and cashew nut, which today still tempt ships across the Arabian Sea.

  • The Portuguese turned to the harder sell of naval batteries, driving off a trading fleet in the year 1509 in order to control the Malabar coast.

  • To deal with the small communities of Jews and Nestorian Christian “heretics,” who had settled down on the Malabar coast in the mists of antiquity, the then Archbishop of Goa opened a local branch of the Holy Inquisition.


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