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Koch (surname) Koch ( , , ) is a German surname that means "Cook (surname), cook" or "chef". Notable people with the surname include: A–C * Adam Koch (born 1988), American professional basketball player * Adolf Koch (1896–1970), German school teacher and lea ...

, people with this surname *

Koch dynasty The Koch dynasty (; 1515–1949) ruled parts of eastern Indian subcontinent in present-day Assam and Bengal. Biswa Singha established power in the erstwhile Kamata Kingdom which had emerged from the decaying Kamarupa Kingdom. The dynasty c ...

, a dynasty in Assam and Bengal, north east India *

Koch family The Koch family ( ) is an American family engaged in business, best known for their political activities in the Koch network and their control of Koch Inc, the 2nd largest privately owned company in the United States (with 2019 revenues of $1 ...

Koch people The Koch are a small trans-border ethnic group of Assam and Meghalaya in India and northern Bangladesh. The group consists of nine matrilineal and strictly exogamous clans, with some of them preserving a hitherto sparsely documented Boro-Gar ...

(or Koche), an ethnic group originally from the ancient Koch kingdom in north east India **

Koch languages The Koch languages are a small group of Boro-Garo languages a sub-branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Northeast India Northeast India, officially the North Eastern Region (NER), is the easternmost region of India representing both ...

, Sino-Tibetan language family *** Koch language, a language spoken in India and Bangladesh * Koch, an alternate name of the

Rabha people The Rabha people are a Tibeto-Burmese ethnic group who live mostly in the Northeast Indian state of Assam, with a lesser population in the adjacent state of West Bengal. They primarily inhabit the plains of Lower Assam and the Dooars, while some ...

, in northeast India and surrounding countries **

Rabha language Rabha is a Sino-Tibetan language of Northeast India. The two dialects, Maitori and Rongdani, are divergent enough to cause problems in communication. According to U.V. Joseph, there are three dialects, viz. Rongdani, Maitori and Kocha (page ix ...

, their language *

Koch Kingdom The Kamata Kingdom ; in the eastern Sivalik Hills, emerged in western Kamarupa probably when Sandhya, a ruler of Kamarupanagara, moved his capital west to Kamatapur sometime after 1257 CE. Since it originated in the old seat of the Kamarup ...

, in and around Assam

Places

* Koch (crater), a crater on the Moon *

Koch, Iran (disambiguation) Kach is a banned far-right political party in Israel Kach may also refer to: Places In Iran: * Kach, Hamadan * Kach, Khuzestan * Koch, Chabahar, Sistan and Baluchestan Province * Koch, Dashtiari, Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province * K ...

, places in Iran * Koch, Łódź Voivodeship, a village in central Poland * Koch, Mississippi, United States *

Koch, South Sudan Koch is a community in the Koch County of Unity State, in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan. It is the headquarters of Koch County. The community lies in Jagei Nuer territory. It is within the Block 5A oil concession. Between 1998 and ...

, a village in Unity State, South Sudan *

Koch Bihar Cooch Behar, also known as Koch Bihar, was a princely state in India during the British Raj. The state was placed under the Bengal States Agency, part of the Eastern States Agency of the Bengal Presidency. It was located south of the ...

, a princely state in north east India * Koch County, an administrative area in Unity State, South Sudan *

, Assam, 13th-16th centuries

Businesses

Koch Entertainment Koch Entertainment was an American record label and a distributor of film, television, and music. It was purchased by Canadian entertainment company ROW Entertainment in 2005. History First years The company began in 1975 as part of Koch Inte ...

LP, now known as E1 Entertainment **

Koch Records MNRK Music Group (pronounced "monarch"), formerly known as Koch Records and Entertainment One (eOne) Music/Records, is an American independent record label and music management company based in New York City. It was formed in 1987 as a music div ...

, former name of Entertainment One Music *

Koch Industries Koch, Inc. () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas, and is the second-largest privately held company in the United States, after Cargill. Its subsidiarie ...

, petroleum, chemicals, energy, and commodities trading *

Koch Media Plaion GmbH (formerly Koch Media) is an Austrian media company headquartered in Höfen, Tyrol, with an additional office in Planegg, Germany. It was founded in 1994 by Franz Koch and Klemens Kundratitz. The company operates video game publishi ...

, a media distribution company from Germany *

Koch Foods Koch Foods is a food processor and distributor in Park Ridge, Illinois that is listed by ''Forbes'' magazine as number 125 on the list of the largest private companies in the US. As of October 2014, the company had a revenue of $3 billion, and ...

Poultry processor and distributor.

Other uses

Koch (boat) The koch ( rus, коч, p=ˈkotɕ, a=Ru-коч.ogg) was a special type of small one- or two- mast wooden sailing ships designed and used in Russia for transpolar voyages in ice conditions of the Arctic seas, popular among the Pomors. Becaus ...

, a type of Arctic boat *

Koch method Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called ''dots'' and ''dashes'', or ''dits'' and ''dahs''. Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of th ...

of learning Morse Code *

Koch snowflake The Koch snowflake (also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island) is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Cur ...

or star, and Koch curve *

Koch's triangle Koch's triangle, also known as the triangle of Koch, is named after the German pathology, pathologist Walter Koch (physician), Walter Koch. It is an anatomical area located at the base of the right atrium, and its boundaries are the coronary sin ...

, an anatomical area of the Human heart *

Koch's postulates Koch's postulates ( ) are four criteria designed to establish a causality, causal relationship between a microbe and a disease. The postulates were formulated by Robert Koch and Friedrich Loeffler in 1884, based on earlier concepts described by ...

, the criteria required to establish the etiology of an infectious disease * ''

Mycobacterium tuberculosis ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (M. tb), also known as Koch's bacillus, is a species of pathogenic bacteria in the family Mycobacteriaceae and the causative agent of tuberculosis. First discovered in 1882 by Robert Koch, ''M. tuberculosis'' ha ...

'' (Koch's bacillus), a bacterial species that causes tuberculosis * ''Koch'' (film), a 2012 documentary film about New York City mayor Ed Koch

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