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Marthal, the name of a medium village. It is situated in the southren part of India. It is 10 Kms from Nagercoil. Marthal village may look as medium and you may find nothing important in this. But it is a historical place. Once named as Marthanda Naloor. The village has temples that convey the message of being a great place, once. Graveyards are the main thing that is in the middle of this village. It has a Matriculation school and it is 100% literate village. It is a very scenic place and it is sorrounded by Green paddy fields. You may clearly see that this village is between two mountains, ideally, we can call this a valley. The nearby small town is [Thittuvilai]. More than 80% of the people are muslims. This village has two churches St Assisi Church and another CSI church. As per the history of the village, a man named Devadhas Nadar was a powerful, good man and once he was the owner of the majority of lands there. His decendants subsequently lost power, and wealth and still live there outside the village. The other great name [Jeevanadham], a great communist leader was born on the near by town of Buthapandy.

This scenic village is near to the Mukkadal Dam. This village sorrounded by ponds and paddy fileds.