Fort Emmanuel
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Fort Emmanuel, also known as Fort Manuel, is a ruined fort located at Fort Kochi Beach in Kochi, Kerala, India. It was built by the Portuguese to be a bastion & a symbol of the strategic alliance betw
Watercolour painting of the fort of Kochi, with a Union Jack flag, from across the backwaters, unknown artists, around 1800 AD.
cannon bastion located at the Fort Kochi Beach
Fort cochin relics
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Kingdom of Cochin
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The Kingdom of Cochin or the Cochin State also known as Perumpadappu Swaroopam, named after its capital in the city of Kochi, was a kingdom in the central part of present-day Kerala state. It originat
Fort Emmanuel
…at Fort Kochi Beach in Kochi (Cochin), Kerala, India. It was built by the Portuguese to be a bastion & a symbol of the strategic alliance between the Kingdom of Cochin and the Kingdom of Portugal. Named after Manuel I of Portugal, it was the first European fort built in Asia. In September 1503, the King of Kochi granted…
Cochin in the 1960s, just a few years after joining the union
Mattancherry Palace-temple, built by the Portuguese as a gift to Raja Veera Kerala Varma I
Relic of Thomas the Apostle, kept in the sanatorium of a Syrian Church
The Bolgatty Palace, built in 1744 by Dutch traders, is one of the oldest existing Dutch palaces outside the Netherlands