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Historians say
Madurai was enclosed by a fort wall and surrounded by a moat until the colonial demolition. Veli Street is the only surviving trace of the fortification.
Historians say
Not one of the four Nayak belts but the line where the city's fort wall and moat stood. The British drained the moat and used the debris to form Veli Street along with Marat and Perumaal Mesthiri streets.