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Jiaozhi

Jiāozhǐ, pronounced Kuchi in the Malay, became the "Cochin-China" of the Portuguese traders circa 1516, who so named it to distinguish it from the city and princely state of Cochin in India, their first headquarters in the Malabar Coast.

Kingdom of Cochin

The Brahmin chief of Perumpadappu (Chitrakuda, Vannerinadu, Ponnani taluk) had married the sister of the last Later Chera king, Rama Varma Kulashekhara, and as a consequence obtained Mahodayapuram, and Thiruvanchikkulam Temple along with numerous other rights, such as that of the Mamankam festival.

M. R. D. Dattan

He was the son of Mr Raman (who was the Palace painter of Kochi royal family) and Kavootti.

Mathew Manjooran

The movement that he precipitated soon snowballed into the famous Karshaka Prakshobham of 1932 of the erstwhile princely state of Cochin.

Thomé Lopes

Another famous episode reported by Lopes is the execution by impaling of three Muslims in Cochin, on the orders of the Trimumpara Raja, the Hindu prince of Cochin, for the sacrilege of selling a cow for beef to the crew of a Portuguese ship in harbor.

Vengalil family

Closely affiliated with the Dewanship of Travancore and related to the royal families of Cochin and Travancore, the Vengalil family were ranked among India's greatest landowners until the rise of the communist government in Kerala, owning such controversial regions as the hydroelectric power center of Kuttiyadi.

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