Cochin, a native state in India N. of Travancore, cooped up between W. Ghâts and the Arabian Sea, with a capital of the same name, where Vasco da Gama died; the first Christian church in India was built here, and there is here a colony of black Jews.
Population (circa 1900) given as 722,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cochabamba * Cochin-China