Malabar Coast around AD 1st century CE Major ports in 1st Century CE according to the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea Malabar Coast around AD 300 (4th century CE) Zamorin of Calicut's empire in 1498 Malabar Coast in Portuguese India (16th century CE) Malabar Coast in the early 17th century (1600-1618) A horizontal Malabar Coast miniature map by Abraham Ortelius, Antwerp, c.1580, from the Epitome Theatri Orteliani; *a reprint by Petrus Bertius, 1630*; and *another Bertius version*, Amsterdam, c.1600-18 Malabar in 1652 (Malabar Coast is highlighted separately on the right side) South India in 1691-92 (Calicut is marked in large letters). A map in which the entire western coast of India is termed as Malabar Coast (drawn in the mid-18th century CE) Kaart van Zuid-India Nova tabula terrarum Cucan, Canara, Malabaria, Madura, & Coromandella, cum parte septentrionali insulae Ceylon, in mari Indico Orientali edente Hadriano Relando (titel op object) A rare map of India and Ceylon issued in 1733 by the Homann Heirs. A map of South India drawn by Emanuel Bowen (1744) Indian Subcontinent in 1760 Rigobert Bonne's 1770 decorative map of southern India.