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unusual facts about Goa, Burkina Faso



2007 Libyan Al-Fatih Cup Final

The game was close, but Al Ittihad won 1-0, thanks to a 53rd minute goal from Burkinabé striker Pan Pierre Koulibaly.

2007–08 I-League

The I-League season 2007–08 kicked off on 24 November 2007 at the Fatorda Stadium, Margao, Goa.

2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup

India will have to choose six host cities from a shortlist of eight, they are New Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Goa, Bangalore, Kolkata, Kochi and Guwahati.

Agaçaim

Agaçaim, sometimes spelt Agassaim, is a village on the northern banks of the Zuari River in Ilhas, Goa, surrounded by Panjim to the north, Margão to the south, Vasco da Gama to the west and Ponda to the east, thus making it a main connection between North Goa and South Goa via the Zuari Bridge.

Air Burkina

Air Burkina SA is the national airline of Burkina Faso, operating scheduled services to one domestic destination, Bobo-Dioulasso, as well as regional services to Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.

Amadou Coulibaly

Amadou Tinder Coulibaly (born December 31, 1984 in Bobo-Dioulasso) is a Burkinabé football player who currently plays as a right back.

Apigeninidin

Projects in Burkina Faso have been led in 1994 to use a red desoxy-3-anthocyanin pigment identified as apigenindin from Sorghum in the dyeing industry.

Bessie Cursons

Cursons and her family were on holiday in Goa in India when the Britain's Got Talent auditions were being held, in May 2007, but, along with her father, she made the trip back to the UK to take part in them.

Bridget Sequeira

They arrived at the house in Cotula where her aunt, Etelvina de Melo, operated St. Mary's Girls School, which had been founded in 1900 by Joshino Sequeira as the first English school for girls in Goa.

Calcutta Light Horse

The Ehrenfels was known to be transmitting information on Allied ship movements to U-boats from Mormugao harbour in Portugal's neutral territory of Goa.

Dravidian languages

Dravidian place-names along the northwest coast, in Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, and to a lesser extent in Sindh, as well as Dravidian grammatical influence such as clusivity in the Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Marwari, and to a lesser extent Sindhi languages, suggest that Dravidian languages were once spoken more widely across the Indian subcontinent.

Frédéric Guirma

Frédéric Fernand Guirma (born 27 April 1931, Ouagadougou) is a diplomat, writer and politician from Burkina Faso.

Goa'uld technology in Stargate

However, there are innovators amongst the Goa'uld; Anubis and Ba'al in particular have been depicted with a great deal of technological ingenuity.

History of Goan Catholics

History of Goan Catholics recounts the history of the Goan Catholic community of the Indian state of Goa from their conversion to Christianity to date.

Isaq Schrijver

This was a Portuguese vessel with 150 crew, commanded by Don Emmanual Da Silva, en route from Goa to Portugal and bearing diplomatic gifts from Narai, King of Siam to Pedro, King of Portugal, Louis XIV of France and Charles II of England.

Jacome Gonsalves

He left Goa on 9 May 1705 and reached Sri Lanka on 30 August 1705, arriving at Talaimannar.

Joris Putman

From the age of three months until he was nine he and his parents lived out of Europe, firstly in Burkina Faso, West Africa, later in Bangkok, and from 1990 in Semarang in Indonesia, before returning to the Netherlands in 1993.

Kevin Durand

He also recurred on the television show Stargate SG-1 as "Lord Zipacna" (based on the Mayan mythological figure Zipacna) and on Lost during its fourth and sixth seasons, in which he played as the antagonist Martin Keamy for 12 episodes.

Khed, Ratnagiri

Khed lies off National Highway NH-17, popularly known as Mumbai-Goa Highway, that connects Khed with cities like Mangalore, Panaji, Madgaon, Karwar and Udupi.

Konkani in the Roman script

Konkani is a language that is spoken by 3.6 million speakers mostly on the western coast of the Indian states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala.

Koumbore

Koumbore is a town in the Boussouma Department of Boulgou Province in south-eastern Burkina Faso.

Krista Purana

Whether this M.C. Saldanha is the same as the well-known professor Mariano Saldanha of Ucassaim, Goa, is yet to be established.

Little Flower Public School

Field visits are organised for all classes, including to Kanyakumari, Kerala, Madurai, Vishakapatnam, Mekedatu, Western Ghats, Goa, Ooty, Kodaikanal, Hampi and Hyderabad.

Mapusa Friday Market

Friday sees many vendors from Bardez and Tiswadi descend on the stalls selling a staggering variety of local produce brought in by farmers and small entrepreneurs from all over Goa to sell directly to the consumer.

Matheus de Castro

Bishop de Castro was held in great esteem at the courts of the Moghul Emperor Shah Jahan and other rulers of India, including those of the Kingdom of Bijapur who belonged to the Adil Shahi dynasty, which ruled Goa prior to the Portuguese.

Musée de Manega

Musée de Manega or Manega Museum is a museum located 55 km (34 mi) northwest of the city Ouagadougou, in the village of Manega, Burkina Faso.

Niger Basin Authority

Nine nations which include part of the Niger Basin are members: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Nigeria.

Noukadubi

The premiered as the opening film of the Indian Panorama section during the 41st International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa on November 24, 2010, in the year that marked Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary.

Nouna

Nouna is a town of about 20,000 inhabitants located in the Province of Kossi in Burkina Faso.

Patricia McMahon Hawkins

She subsequently served as Information Officer in Kinshasa, Zaire, as Public Affairs Officer in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, as Cultural Affairs Officer in Bogotá, Colombia, as Counselor for Public Affairs in Abidjan, Cộte d'Ivoire, where she also served briefly as Acting DCM and then for several months as Chargé d'affaires.

Pre-Portuguese Christianity in Goa

He also reports the existence of Christian and Hindu 'Thomses' in Kalyanpuram near Mangalore, probably people who fled or migrated from Goa.

Raia

Raia, Goa, a small village in Goa, India, about 6 km from Margao on the way to Loutolim

Red Volta

The Red Volta is a river that flows through the Upper East region of North Ghana and the international border of North Ghana flowing about 320 km to join the White Volta in the Upper East region of North Ghana and arising in Burkina Faso.

Saaba

Saaba is a town in the Boussouma Department of Boulgou Province in south-eastern Burkina Faso.

São Matias, Goa

São Mathias also known as Malar is a village on Divar island, Tiswadi, in the Indian state of Goa.

Shiroda

Shiroda, Goa, village in Ponda taluk, North Goa district, Goa, India

Shiroda, Goa

Shoroda houses one engineering colleges of Goa, Shree Rayeshwar Institute of Engineering and Information Technology and two colleges of Alternative medicine the Ayurveda College & Research Centre and Shri Kamaxshi Devi Homeopathic Medical College & Hospital.

South Zone cricket team

It is a composite team of players from six first-class Indian teams from southern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Hyderabad, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

St. Paul's Church, Malacca

The chapel was deeded to the Society of Jesus in 1548 by the Bishop of Goa, João Afonso de Albuquerque, with the title deeds received by St. Francis Xavier.

St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa

Since 1986, St Xavier's College has been attached to Goa University, which was set up in the State of Goa.

Tenshō embassy

They were accompanied by two servants, their tutor and interpreter Diego de Mesquita, and their mentor Valignano, who only accompanied them as far as Goa in Portuguese India, where he was to take up new responsibilities.

Tougan

Tougan is a town located in the province of Sourou in Burkina Faso.

Visa policy of India

Currently visas on arrival may be obtained at international airports of Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram and the list will be expanded with more airports like Goa, Gaya, Chandigarh and Amritsar.

Visa requirements for Slovenian citizens

Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination.

Wroughton's free-tailed bat

In Karnataka, it is found in the Barapede Caves, located between Krishnapur and Talewadi, in Belgaum district, adjacent to the Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary near the state of Goa.

Yahel Chirinian

Monsoon Heritage creations are present in Paris, Rome, Milan, Monte Carlo, Saint Bart, Porto Cervo, Capri, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Oman, Qatar, Dabi, New Delhi, Bombay and Goa.

Zatra

Zatra is the Konkani language term for the pilgrimage festivals celebrated at Hindu temples in Goa; the Hindi and Marathi language equivalents are Yatra and Jatra.

Zouma, Burkina Faso

Zouma is a village in the province of Nayala in Burkina Faso.


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