Oka

Oka or OKA may refer to:

  • The Old Kimboltonian Association, the alumni association of Kimbolton School
  • Oka cheese, a Canadian cheese
  • Oka (mass), an Ottoman unit of weight equal to 1.2829 kilograms
  • Oxalis tuberosa or Oca, the root vegetable
  • 16494 Oka, an asteroid
  • 81-760/761 "Oka", a model of subway car used on the Moscow Metro
  • Oka Crisis, a land dispute between the Mohawk Nation and the town of Oka, Canada
  • Naha Airport by IATA airport code
  • Okay Airways by ICAO airline code
  • Tropical Storm Oka, a Pacific storm in 1987
  • Oka (surname), a Japanese surname
  • OKA Direct, a British retailer
  • Cars

  • VAZ-1111 Oka (Lada Oka), a small car designed by AvtoVAZ and produced by ZMA and SeAZ
  • Oka NEV ZEV, a NEV VAZ-1111 (see above) converted by Oka Auto USA
  • OKA 4wd, a large 4-wheel-drive vehicle made in Western Australia by OKA
  • Military

  • 2B1 Oka, Soviet 420 mm self-propelled mortar
  • OTR-23 Oka, a theatre ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union
  • Places

  • Oka, Quebec, Canada
  • Oka National Park near Oka, Quebec
  • Čoka

    Čoka (Serbian Cyrillic: Чока, pronounced [t͡ʃôka]; Hungarian: Csóka, pronounced [ˈt͡ʃoːkɒ]; German: Tschoka; Slovak: Čoka) is a town and municipality in the North Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 4,028, while Čoka municipality has 11,398 inhabitants.

    History

    The first written record about Čoka was made in 1247. It was part of a feudal tenure of which landowners were often changed. Later the settlement was abandoned due to the dense Cuman incursions at the end of the 13th century, but it was rebuilt again in the 14th century. In 1552, it was under Ottoman administration. At that time, it had a sparse population of 13 people, and at the end of the 16th century, the hamlet dwellers numbered 4 Serb families.

    In the first half of the 18th century, the Ottoman administration was replaced by the Habsburg one and according to 1717 data, there were 40 Serb houses in the village of which number increased to 192 until the middle of the 18th century, and in 1787, the number of population increased to 1,191 people. In 1796, the tenure owner Lőrinc Marcibányi had Hungarians settled here that Slovaks followed then., which resulted in a rapid population growth and as early as the middle of the 19th century, the population numbered 2,739 people which increased to 4,239 until 1910. According to 1910 census, Hungarians were the dominant ethnic group in the village, while there existed a sizable ethnic Serb community as well.

    Ōoka

    Ōoka or Ooka (大岡(おおおか) Ōoka, "large hill") may refer to:

    Location

  • Ōoka River (大岡川 Ōoka-gawa)
  • Ōoka, Nagano (大岡村 Ōoka-mura)
  • Surname

  • Ōoka Tadasuke (大岡忠相 Ōoka Tadasuke) (16771752), Japanese judge, known in English juvenile literature as "Ooka the Wise" or "Solomon in Kimono"
  • Shōhei Ōoka (大岡昇平 Ōoka Shōhei) (19091988), an author
  • Makoto Ōoka (大岡信 Ōoka Makoto) (b. 1931), a poet
  • Tomokazu Ooka (大家友和 Ōka Tomokazu) (born 1976), a Major League Baseball player
  • See also

  • Oka (disambiguation)
  • Ōka (disambiguation)
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