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25 unusual facts about Kochi


1997 Nehru Cup

The 1997 Nehru Cup was held in Kochi, India.

Duarte Barbosa

In 1500 his uncle Gonçalo Gil Barbosa, after traveling in the 1500 fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral, was left as factor in Kochi, and in 1502 was transferred to Kannur.

Eagles F.C.

The original Ernakulam Eagles was formed in 1955 in Kochi by a group of football loving students of St. Albert’s High School and NJ Joseph, their mathematics teacher and an ardent sports loving businessman.

Fais Island

The original account of this story is included in the report that the Augustinian Fray Jerónimo de Santisteban, travelling with the Villalobos' expedition, wrote for the Viceroy of New Spain, while in Kochi during the voyage home.

Faith Baptist Bible College and Seminary

Faith Baptist Bible College and Seminary is an undergraduate and graduate Bible college located in Kochi, Kerala, India.

FC Kochin

FC Kochin played at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kaloor.

Haru Urara

At her debut, on November 17, 1998 at the Kōchi Racetrack, Haru Urara lost, placing fifth—and last.

Hata District, Kōchi

As of the Shimanto merger but with 2003 population statistics, the district has an estimated population of 22,402 and a density of 59.4 persons per km².

Holkar Cricket Stadium

The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi was the home venue for the Indian Premier League team Kochi Tuskers Kerala and officially hosted 5 home-matches of the franchise.

The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi is the home venue for the Indian Premier League team Kochi Tuskers Kerala and officially hosted 5 home-matches of the franchise.

Japan National Route 321

National Route 321 is a national highway of Japan connecting Shimanto, Kōchi and Sukumo, Kōchi in Japan, with a total length of 82.3 km (51.14 mi).

Japan National Route 439

National Route 439 is a national highway of Japan connecting Tokushima, Tokushima and Shimanto, Kōchi in Japan, with a total length of 341.2 km (212.01 mi).

Japan National Route 441

National Route 441 is a national highway of Japan connecting Ōzu, Ehime and Shimanto, Kōchi in Japan, with a total length of 110.9 km (68.91 mi).

Katsuko Nishimoto

A native of Takaoka District, Kōchi and graduate of Dokkyo University she was elected to the village council of Hidaka, Kōchi for the first time in 1995 and to the Diet for the first time in 2005.

Kōchi Station

Kōchi-Ekimae Station (高知駅前駅), a tram station in Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture located in front of Kōchi Station

Kōchi-Shōgyō-Mae Station (高知商業前駅), a train station in Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture

Kōchi, Kōchi

Aaron Zagory (born 1985) is a Kōchi-born former US college football player, and the starting kicker for Stanford University in 2006 and 2008.

Nobuo Uematsu (born 1959) is a video game composer, best known for scoring the majority of titles in the Final Fantasy series.

Lakeshore Hospital

Lakeshore is a Super-speciality Hospital located at Kochi in Kerala, India.

Panampilly Nagar

Panampilly Nagar is a residential zone in the city of Kochi in the state of Kerala, India.

Shūsui Kōtoku

Kōtoku moved from his birthplace, the town of Nakamura in the Kōchi prefecture, to Tokyo in his mid-teens and after graduating from the Tokyo School of English, became a journalist there in 1893.

Southern Naval Command

It has its HQ in Kochi at INS Venduruthy, and is commanded by the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief.

Tenshō embassy

On their way to Lisbon, at which they arrived in August 1584, they spent nine months visiting the Portuguese territories of Macau, Kochi and Goa.

Varthamanam

Varthamanam is a Malayalam daily published from Kozhikode, Kochi, and Doha by Varthamanam Ventures Pvt Ltd.

Wakefieldite

Wakefieldite-(Nd) was first described in 2008 at the Arase mine, Kami city, Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku Island, Japan.


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.

Agmark

In addition to the Central AGMARK Laboratory (CAL) in Nagpur, there are Regional AGMARK Laboratories (RALs) in 11 nodal cities (Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Kanpur, Kochi, Guntur, Amritsar, Jaipur, Rajkot, Bhopal).

Ajit Ravi

Ajit Ravi (born Ajit Ravi on 30 May 1976 in Kochi, Kerala) is an Indian film actor, director, and producer known for his work in Malayalam cinema.

AMPL-class interceptor boat

The vessels have been based at various Indian coast guard station such as Mandapam, Mangalore, Visakhapatnam, Okha, Chennai, Kochi and Goa, and one boat was leased to Mauritius in 2001.

Baselios Thomas I

The Catholicate office of Mor Baselios Thomas I functions at the Mor Ignatius Zakka I Centre in Puthencruz near Kochi, which is also the headquarters of the Syrian Orthodox Church in India.

Cochin Harbour Terminus railway station

Cochin harbour terminus is located on the Bristow Road in the Willingdon Island, Kochi.

Ernakulam Duronto

Ernakulam-Lokmanya Tilak Duronto, is a bi-weekly nonstop superfast train between Kochi and Mumbai

Gandhi Nagar, Kochi

Gandhi Nagar is one of the two earliest (the other being Panampilly Nagar) planned housing colonies in the city of Kochi in the state of Kerala, India.

In the film In Harihar Nagar, a 1990 Malayalam film written and directed by Siddique-Lal, the writers created a fictitious housing colony out of both Gandhi Nagar and Panampilly Nagar, the only two planned housing colonies in the state at that time, and tried to portray the urban-life of Kochi of the 1980s.

INS Magdala

The ship was a part of the 20th Mine Counter Measure Squadron (MCMS) and was placed under the Naval Officer-in-Charge (Kerala & Lakshadweep) at Kochi.

Juliana Dias da Costa

Donna Juliana Dias da Costa (1658–1733) was a woman of Portuguese descent from Kochi taken to the Mughal Empire's court of Aurangzeb in Hindustan, who became Harem-Queen to the Mughal emperor of India Bahadur Shah I, Aurangzeb's son, who became the monarch in the year 1707.

Kochi Tuskers Kerala

Federal Bank, a major Indian commercial bank in the private sector, with headquarters in Aluva, Kerala, was be the principal sponsor of Kochi Tuskers Kerala.

Kollam Junction railway station

Trains from here connect the city of Kollam to major cities of India, including New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Indore, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Madurai, Vizag, Jammu, Howrah, Guwahati, Madgaon, Hubli, Ahmedabad, Gwalior, Nagpur, Pune, Kota, Bhubaneshwar, Gorakhpur, Kochi, Kozhikode, Vijayawada, Bhubaneshwar, Coimbatore and Mangalore.

Kunhali Marakkar

1503 – Portuguese Afonso de Albuquerque arrives in Kochi to find it destroyed, and after helping in the defense of the king, manages to obtain permission to build a fort.

Le Méridien

In mid-2012, during the search conducted by Maradu Municipality, the food safety officials seized damaged food from star hotels including Le Méridien Kochi.

Media One TV

On June 16, 2012, Union Cabinet Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi unveiled the MediaOne Logo at Kochi Le Meridian convention hall .

Mundaje

Among them are the Chitpavan Brahmins who migrated from the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra and in the later years Shetty, Naika, Muslims, Kochi Christians, Havyaka-Karhada-Shivalli Brahmins.

Norrard Rocks

On Mincarlo he recorded the following spiders; Trochosa terricola, Oedothorax fuscus, Lepthyphantes tenuis, Dismodicus bifrons, Xysticus kochi and Halorates reprobus which is associated with the nests of seabirds, especially cormorant and shag.

PAICO Classics

Published by Pai and Company (abbreviated as PAICO) in various Indian languages and English, the Paico Classics series was part of an association between academic publisher Pendulum Press, based in the United States of America; and Paico, based in Kochi, India.

Seal of Kerala

In 1795, Sakthan Thampuran proclaimed the formal adoption of Kochi State Emblem.

Shimanto, Kōchi

Shimanto, Kōchi refers the following municipalities within Kōchi Prefecture.

Shōtarō Yasuoka

Yasuoka was born in pre-war Japan in Kōchi, Kōchi, but as the son of a veterinary corpsman in the Imperial Army, he spent most of his youth moving from one military post to another.

Skybus Metro

Cities such as Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pondicherry, Pune, Ranchi, Shimla, Thane etc. are considering Sky Bus although the system has not been adopted anywhere.

Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit

Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (SSUS) is a research oriented Public University located at Kalady near Kochi in Kerala.

T. Ramachandran

He graduated in zoology from St. Albert's College, Kochi (old spelling: Cochin), but, did his masters in English Literature from Sacred Heart College, also in Kochi.

Taisho Station

Tosa-Taishō Station, a train station on the Shikoku Railway (JR Shikoku) Yodo Line in Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, Japan

Tata Marcopolo

Tata Marcopolo products are currently being used or inducted in several Indian cities as part of the local transports fleet like Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Mysore, Kolkata, Chennai, Lucknow, Kanpur, Chandigarh, Pune, South Kanpur, Kochi, Madurai, Hyderabad, Thane, Trivandrum etc.

Thevara

Thevara is a link to Thevara Ferry which links the place like Kumbalam, Nettoor to other areas of Kochi city via waterway.

Tirur railway station

Though no trains originate from this station, trains halting at the station connect the town to prominent cities in India such as Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kozhikode, Coimbatore, New Delhi, Mangalore, Pune, Jaipur, Jammu Tawi, Okha, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and so forth.

Tsutomu Seki

Many of his discoveries are named after famous sites in Kōchi, such as Harimaya-bashi, Ryōma (after Sakamoto Ryōma), Katsurahama, and Kagami-gawa, to name a few.

Vasco da Gama Church

Vasco da Gama Church is a church in Kochi in the Kerala state of India, which is named after the Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama.

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.

Willingdon Island

Willingdon Island is significant as the home for the Port of Kochi, as well as the Kochi Naval Base (the Southern Naval Command) of the Indian Navy and Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, a constituent unit of Indian Council of Agricultural Research.