Anizham Thirunal Veerabaala Marthanda Varma (1706–7 Jul 1758) was king of Travancore from 1729 till his death in 1758. He was the first in Asia and the only Indian King to beat a superior European armed force in the battle of Kolachel. He contributed substantially to the expansion of his ancestral domains by annexing several neighbouring states and unified the entire southern Kerala.
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