MaduraiTamilSerialEpisode2Madurai Wikipedia. This article is about the city in Tamil Nadu, India. For the administrative district of Madurai, see Madurai district. Madurai. Metropolitan. Tamil Serial Today247. Org Watch Tamil Serials And Tamil Tv Shows Online,Serial Reviews Sort by latest latest most viewed longest top rated random. Serial in vijay tv last episode. Madurai serial in. Super Serial. Episode 33 of Mathurai. Tamil drama watch. Madurai 02032017 Vijay Super Serial. Episode 33 of Mathurai. Tamil drama watch online Madurai latest episode 020317. Vijay Super drama Madurai March 02 2017 view. Nicknames Athens of the East. Coordinates 95. N7. E 9. N 7. 8. 1E 9. Coordinates 95. N7. E 9. N 7. 8. 1E 9. Country India. State. Tamil Nadu. District. 000Webhost File Upload Limit there. Madurai District. Government  Type. Serial Episode 2 The BreakupMunicipal Corporation  Body. Madurai City Municipal Corporation  Mayor. Vacant  Corporation Commissioner. Dr Aneesh Sekhar IAS  Commissioner of Police. Mahesh Kumar Agarwal IPSArea  Metropolitan. Area rank. 4Elevation. Population 2. 01. Metropolitan. 1,4. Rank. 3  Density. Metro31,5. 61,1. DemonymsMaduraite, Maduraikaran. Language  Official. Tamil. Time zone. IST UTC5 3. 0PIN6. Telephone code. 04. Vehicle registration. TN 5. 8 South, TN 5. North and TN 6. CentralWebsitemaduraicorporation. Madurai is a major city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the administrative headquarters of Madurai District. Madurai is the third largest city in Tamil Nadu, and is the 2. India. Located on the banks of River Vaigai, Madurai has been a major settlement for two millennia. Madurai has been selected as one of the hundred Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under Prime Minister Narendra Modis flagship Smart Cities Mission. Madurai is closely associated with the Tamil language, and the third Tamil Sangam, a major congregation of Tamil scholars said to have been held in the city. The recorded history of the city goes back to the 3rd century BCE, being mentioned by Megasthenes, the Greek ambassador to the Maurya empire, and Kautilya, a minister of the Mauryan emperor Chandragupta Maurya. Signs of human settlements and Roman trade links dating back to 3. BC are evident from excavations by Archeological Survey of India in Manalur. The city is believed to be of significant antiquity and has been ruled, at different times, by the Pandyas, Cholas, Madurai Sultanate, Vijayanagar Empire, Madurai Nayaks, Carnatic kingdom, and the British. The city has a number of historical monuments, with the Meenakshi Amman Temple and Tirumalai Nayak Palace being the most prominent. Madurai is an important industrial and educational hub in South Tamil Nadu. The city is home to various automobile, rubber, chemical and granite manufacturing industries. It has developed as a second tier city for information technology IT, and some software companies have opened offices in Madurai. Madurai has important government educational institutes like the Madurai Medical College, Homeopathic Medical College,Madurai Law College, Agricultural College and Research Institute. Madurai city is administered by a municipal corporation established in 1. Municipal Corporation Act. The city covers an area of 1. The city is also the seat of a bench of the Madras High Court. EtymologyeditThe city is referred by various names including Madurai, Koodal, Malligai Maanagar, Naanmadakoodal and Thirualavai. The word Madurai may be derived from Madhura sweetness arising out of the divine nectar showered on the city by the Hindu god Shiva from his matted hair. Another theory is that Madurai is the derivative of the word Marutham, which refers to the type of landscape of the Sangam age. A town in the neighbouring Dindigul district is called Vada Madurai North Madurai and another in Sivagangai district is called Manamadurai. The different names by which the city has been referred to historically are listed in the 7th century poem Thiruvilayaadal puraanam written by Paranjothi Munivar. Koodal means an assembly or congregation of scholarly people, referring to the three Tamil Sangams held at Madurai. Naanmadakoodal, meaning the junction of four towers, refers to the four major temples for which Madurai was known for. Tevaram, the 7th or 8th century Tamil compositions on Shiva by the three prominent Nayanars Saivites, namely Appar, Sundarar and Thirugnanasambandar, address the city as Thirualavai. As per Iravatham Mahadevan, a 2nd century BCE Tamil Brahmi inscription refers to the city as matiray, an Old Tamil word meaning a walled city. Historyedit. Hand coloured antique wood engraving drawn by W. Purser 1. 85. 8 shows Madurai city as seen from the north bank of the Vaigai river. Madurai has been inhabited since at least the 3rd century BCE. Megasthenes may have visited Madurai during the 3rd century BCE, with the city referred as Methora in his accounts. The view is contested by some scholars who believe Methora refers to the north Indian city of Mathura, as it was a large and established city in the Mauryan Empire. Madurai is also mentioned in Kautilyas 3. BCEArthashastra. Sangam literature like Maturaikkci records the importance of Madurai as a capital city of the Pandyan dynasty. Madurai is mentioned in the works of Roman historians Pliny the Younger 6. CE, Ptolemy c. 9. CE 1. 68, those of the Greek geographer Strabo 6. BCE  c. 2. 4 CE,2. Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. Pandyan dynasty Map at its greatest extent. After the Sangam age, most of present day Tamil Nadu, including Madurai, came under the rule of the Kalabhra dynasty, which was ousted by the Pandyas around 5. CE. The Pandyas were outsted from Madurai by the Chola dynasty during the early 9th century. The city remained under the control of the Cholas until the early 1. Pandyan empire was established with Madurai as its capital. After the death of Kulasekara Pandian 1. CE, Madurai came under the rule of the Delhi Sultanate. The Madurai Sultanate then seceded from Delhi and functioned as an independent kingdom until its gradual annexation by the Vijayanagar Empire in 1. CE. Madurai became independent from Vijayanagar in 1. CE under the Nayaks. Nayak rule ended in 1. CE and Madurai was repeatedly captured several times by Chanda Sahib 1. CE, Arcot Nawab and Muhammed Yusuf Khan 1. CE in the middle of 1. In 1. 80. 1, Madurai came under the direct control of the British East India Company and was annexed to the Madras Presidency. The British government made donations to the Meenakshi temple and participated in the Hindu festivals during the early part of their rule. The city evolved as a political and industrial complex through the 1. Madurai district. In 1. 83. 7, the fortifications around the temple were demolished by the British. The moat was drained and the debris was used to construct new streets  Veli, Marat and Perumaal Mesthiri streets. The city was constituted as a municipality in 1. CE. The British government faced initial hiccups during the earlier period of the establishment of municipality in land ceiling and tax collection in Madurai and Dindigul districts under the direct administration of the officers of the government. The city, along with the district, was resurveyed between 1. CE and subsequently, five municipalities were constituted in the two districts and six taluk boards were set up for local administration. Police stations were established in Madurai city, housing the headquarters of the District Superintendent. It was in Madurai, in 1. Mahatma Gandhi, pre eminent leader of Indian nationalism in British ruled India, first adopted the loin cloth as his mode of dress after seeing agricultural labourers wearing it. Leaders of the independence movement in Madurai included N. M. R. Subbaraman and Mohammad Ismail Sahib. The Temple Entry Authorization and Indemnity Act passed by the government of Madras Presidency under C. Rajagopalachari in 1.