Coos may refer to:
People
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Cowasuck
The Cowasuck, also known as Cowass, was an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe in northeastern North America and the name of their primary settlement.
Linguistically and culturally the Cowasuck belonged to the Western Abenaki and the W ...
, also known as Cowass or Coös, an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe in northeastern North America
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Coos people
Coos people are an indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau, living in Oregon. They live on the southwest Oregon Pacific coast. Today, Coos people are enrolled in the following federally recognized tribes:
* Confederated Tribes of the Coos, ...
, an Indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau in Oregon
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Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians
The Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians of Oregon are a federally recognized Native American tribe of Hanis Coos, Miluk Coos, Lower Umpqua (or Kuitsh), and Siuslaw people in Oregon.[Coös County, New Hampshire
Coös County (, with two syllables) or Coos County is the northernmost County (United States), county in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 31,268, making it the least-populated ...]
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Coos Bay, Oregon
Coos Bay () is a city located in Coos County, Oregon, United States, where the Coos River enters Coos Bay on the Pacific Ocean. It shares Coos Bay with the adjacent city of North Bend, Oregon, North Bend. Together, they are often referred to as ...
, a small city on Coos Bay
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Coos County, Oregon
Coos County ( ) is one of the Oregon counties, 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 64,929. The county seat is Coquille, Oregon, Coquille. The county was formed from the ...
Landforms
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Coos Bay
Coos Bay (Hanis language, Coos language: Atsixiis or Hanisich) is an estuary where the Coos River enters the Pacific Ocean, the estuary is approximately 12 miles long and up to two miles wide. It is the largest estuary completely within Oregon sta ...
, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean
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Coos River
The Coos River flows for about into Coos Bay along the Pacific coast of southwest Oregon in the United States. Formed by the confluence of its major tributaries, the South Fork Coos River and the Millicoma River, it drains an important timber- ...
, southwest Oregon
Languages
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Coosan languages
Coosan () is a townland and suburb north of Athlone, County Westmeath in Ireland. Coosan, which is situated on the shores of Lough Ree, is surrounded by water on three sides and bordered by Athlone on the fourth.
Coosan attracts tourists over t ...
, sometimes called Coos or Kusan, a language family formerly spoken on the southern Oregon coast
** Coos, another name for the
Hanis language
Hanis, or Coos, was one of two Coosan languages of Oregon, and the better documented. It was spoken north of the Miluk around the Coos River and Coos Bay. was the Hanis name for themselves. The last speaker of Hanis was Martha Harney Johnson, w ...
, one of the two extinct Coosan languages of the southern Oregon coast
See also
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Coosa (disambiguation) Coosa may refer to:
* Coosa, Mississippi
* Coosa River
* Coosa County, Alabama
* Coosa chiefdom, which was visited by Hernando de Soto.
* Coosa High School, a secondary school in Floyd County, Ga.
See also
* Coosan languages
Coosan () is a ...
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Kos
Kos or Cos (; ) is a Greek island, which is part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Kos is the third largest island of the Dodecanese, after Rhodes and Karpathos; it has a population of 37,089 (2021 census), making ...
, an island southwest of Asia Minor
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