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Patmos (Πάτμος)

Patmos (Πάτμος) is a small Greek island in the Dodecanese in the Aegean Sea, where Saint John is traditionally said to have written Revelation around 95 AD.

Patna district, Bihar, India; headquarters Patna city, state capital; 2011 population 5,838,465, area 3,202 sq km, literacy 70.68%; formed 1865, Nalanda split off 1972; ranked first among Bihar districts in socio-economic development.

Patna (पटना)

Patna (पटना), ancient Pataliputra, is the capital of Bihar, India, on the south bank of the Ganga. Former Mauryan and Gupta imperial capital, renamed Azimabad in 1703; district population 5,838,465 (2011); a non-attainment air-pollution city with new airport terminal and metro.

Patna High Court (पटना उच्च न्यायालय)

Patna High Court (पटना उच्च न्यायालय), High Court of Judicature at Patna, Bihar's top court. Constituted by Letters Patent 9 February 1916, opened by Lord Hardinge, first Chief Justice Sir Edward Chamier; separate Orissa court from 1948.

Patna Medical College and Hospital

Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), Patna, Bihar government teaching hospital; began as Temple Medical School 1874, Prince of Wales Medical College 1925; 1,675 beds, ₹5,540 crore redevelopment to 5,462 beds.

Patna Pirates

Patna Pirates, Pro Kabaddi League franchise from Patna, Bihar, owned by Rajesh Shah; only team to win three straight PKL titles (Seasons 3-5) with Pardeep Narwal, five finals, most all-time raid points.

Patna Shuklla

Patna Shuklla (पटना शुक्ल), also spelled Patna Shukla, is a 2024 Hindi courtroom drama directed by Vivek Budakoti, produced by Arbaaz Khan, starring Raveena Tandon as Patna lawyer Tanvi Shukla fighting a university roll-number scam; released March 29, 2024 on Disney+ Hotstar.

Sep 19, 2026

Patni Computer Systems

Patni Computer Systems was an Indian IT services company founded in Mumbai in 1978, a pioneer of offshore software development acquired by iGATE in 2011.

Oct 22, 2026

Patni Prasad

Patni Prasad, also written Patni-Prasada, is a one-act devotional play by Assamese saint-reformer Srimanta Sankaradeva, based on the Bhagavata Purana and regarded as the earliest of his six surviving plays.

Oct 15, 2026

Patnow power station

Patnow power station (Elektrownia Pątnów) is a lignite-fired power station at Pątnów near Konin in central Poland, owned by ZE PAK; after retirements only its 474 MW unit, Poland's first supercritical unit, remains in operation.

Pato

Pato (juego del pato) is Argentina's national sport, a horseback game with a six-handled leather ball thrown through a 2.70 m hoop, declared national sport by Perón's Decree 17,468 in 1953.

Pato O'Ward

Pato O'Ward, born 1999 in Monterrey, Mexico, is an NTT INDYCAR SERIES driver for Arrow McLaren's No. 5 Chevrolet. Through 2026 he has 12 wins, 7 poles, the 2025 championship runner-up spot, and a 2026 Milwaukee doubleheader sweep.

Patois

Patois, from French patois, is a folk term for local or stigmatized speech with no fixed linguistic definition; best known today as Jamaican Patois (Patwa), an English-lexifier creole with a basilect-to-standard continuum.

Oct 15, 2026

Patoka (oil hub)

Patoka is the second-largest crude oil storage and pipeline hub in the United States after Cushing, Oklahoma, located in Marion County, Illinois, and serving as the terminus of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Patol

Patol (Tugea) is a Pueblo race game of New Mexico played with three stick dice on a circle of forty stones; players race horses around the board, capture opponents, and win by completing a circuit, under names like quince and wasokutz.

Oct 22, 2026

Patola

Patola (singular patolu) is a double-ikat silk textile woven in Gujarat, India, in which both warp and weft threads are resist-dyed before weaving, with the finest examples made in Patan.

Patoladi ghrta

Patoladi ghrta (Paṭolādi ghṛta) is an Ayurvedic medicated ghee, Formulary of India AFI000277, 12 g dose, 19 herbs cooked in cow ghee; used for skin disease, wounds, and Pitta eye disorders.

Patoladi kvatha curna

Patoladi kvatha curna (पटोलादि क्वाथ, Paṭolādi kvātha cūrṇa) is an Ayurvedic decoction powder, AFI000340, dosed 48 g; six bitter herbs around patola, used for skin disorders, fever, jaundice, and amlapitta.

Patolamuladi kvatha curna (patolamiladi kvatha curna)

Patolamuladi kvatha curna (Paṭolamūlādi kvātha cūrṇa), also called Patolamooladi kashayam, is an Ayurvedic decoction powder, AFI 4:18 from Ashtanga Hridaya, with patola, triphala, colocynth, trayamana, katuki, and ginger, dosed at 48 g with honey for skin disease, fever, and jaundice.

Patolli (Aztec)

Patolli, the Aztec race game from Nahuatl patol (bean), was played on a cross-shaped board with marked beans as dice across Mesoamerica from about CE 250, documented by Durán and Sahagún, suppressed after the Spanish conquest, and known today only through reconstruction.

Oct 10, 2026

Paton James Gloag

Paton James Gloag (1823–1906) was a Church of Scotland minister and theological writer, Moderator of the General Assembly in 1889, who wrote New Testament commentaries and introductions.

Patoranking

Patoranking (Patrick Nnaemeka Okorie, born 1990) is a Nigerian reggae-dancehall and Afrobeats singer from Lagos; known for 'Alubarika', 'Girlie O', albums God Over Everything, Wilmer, Three and World Best, and his Patoranking Foundation.

Patos

Patos, Paraíba, Brazil: municipality in the sertão of Paraíba, about 103,000 residents, 473.1 km², altitude 242 m; home of the José Cavalcanti stadium, the Clássico Patoense derby between Nacional and Esporte Clube de Patos, and the Rivaldão gymnasium.

Patos Lagoon

Patos Lagoon (Lagoa dos Patos), Brazil's largest coastal lagoon at about 10,360 km2 in Rio Grande do Sul, is the world's largest choked lagoon, connected to the Atlantic by a single inlet at Rio Grande and linked to Mirim Lagoon by the São Gonçalo Channel.