#language en = Madurai = '''Madurai''' ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language|Tamil]]: மதுரை and ~-IPA: -~[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA|[mɐd̪ɯrəj]]]), is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the Indian peninsula. It is an ancient and prestigious city in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_state|Indian state]] of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Nadu|Tamil Nadu]], situated on the banks of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaigai_River|River Vaigai]] in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madurai_district|Madurai district]]. The city is widely known as the Temple City, and is often also referred to as City of four junctions (''Koodal Maanagar''), [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_capital|Cultural capital]] of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Nadu|Tamil Nadu]] (''Kalaachaara thalainagar''), City of Jasmine (''Malligai Maanagar''), Sleepless city (''Thoonga Nagaram''), Athens of the East and The City of Festivals (''Thiruvizha nagaram'').It is the third largest (was second largest from its origin till 2001) city in Tamil Nadu. Madurai was the capital city of ancient Southern civilization. Madurai's cultural heritage goes back 2,500 years, and the city has been an important commercial center and has conducted trade as far as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome|Rome]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece|Greece]] since as early as 550 B.C.E. == Teams == * [[2010/Asia/India/Madurai/glugot|GLUGOT]] - http://glugot.tce.edu * [[2010/Asia/India/Madurai/glugmadurai|GLUG-Madurai]] - http://glug-madurai.org FStival is a Free Software Festival conducted annually, since 2004, by [[2010/Asia/India/Madurai/glugot|GLUGOT]] and [[2010/Asia/India/Madurai/glugmadurai|GLUG-Madurai]] in commemoration of Software Freedom Day (SFD). The objective of FStival is to create awareness of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) among the general public of South Tamil Nadu.Visit us at http://fstival.org == Create a new Team page: == <> ---- CategoryRegion