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This category is for individual car models produced in Portugal. For motor vehicle manufacturing companies of Portugal see Category:Motor vehicle manufacturers of Portugal . Pages in category "Cars of Portugal"
Kochi bagged the city with most sustainable transport system award instituted by the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs in 2021. [2] In April 2023, Kochi became the only city in the country to have water metro system along with the metro rail system after the inauguration of Kochi Water Metro. It is the first water metro system in ...
Vinci is a Portuguese-based project for a brand of cars (possibly owned by a development stage company called Retroconcept or Retrosport (both names are referred to in sources)). Vinci GT. In 2007 the brand announced the first Portuguese sports car. Its design was inspired by the cars of the 60's and 70's.
The Treaty of Cochin of 1500 was an agreement signed at Cochin in the Malabar Coast, in India, between the Trimumpara Raja of Cochin and Pedro Álvares Cabral on behalf of King Manuel of Portugal. It established a trade agreement between Portugal and Cochin and a military alliance against their common enemy, the Zamorin of Calicut .
Another codex of the same nature is the Memória das Armadas que de Portugal passaram à Índia ("Memory of the Armadas that from Portugal passed to India") or Livro das Armadas, held by the Academia das Ciências in Lisbon. It covers the period from 1497 to 1567 (although missing the armada of 1517).
The Cochin Carnival was started in 1985 by a group of young people in Kochi following the Beach Fest held as part of the United Nations 'Youth Year' celebrations. [10] Although it had roots of Portuguese catholic culture, Pappanji burning ceremony is now considered a secular festival.
Arriving in Cochin, a Portuguese emissary and a Christian picked up in Calicut went ashore to make contact with the Trimumpara Raja (Unni Goda Varma), the Nair Hindu prince of Cochin. [ note 18 ] The Portuguese were greeted warmly, with the bombardment of Calicut outweighing the earlier matter of the war elephants.
For many centuries up to and during the British Raj, the city of Kochi was the seat of the eponymous princely state. Muziris, a centre of global trade somewhere north to Kochi (presently identified with Kodungallur in Thrissur district), traces its history back many centuries, when it was the centre of Indian spice trade for hundreds of years, and was known to the Jews, Arabs, Yavanas (Greeks ...