• Old Goa (Konkani: Pornnem Gõy; Adlem Gõy; Portuguese: Velha Goa, lit. ''Old Goa'') is a historical site and city situated on the southern banks of the...
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    Goa Velha is a small town in Ilhas de Goa subdistrict, Goa state, India. It should not be confused with the World Heritage Site of the historical city...
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    city known under the Portuguese as Velha Goa (or Old Goa). The Mahadev Temple, attributed to the Kadambas of Goa, in what is today Bhagwan Mahaveer Sanctuary...
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    Panaji (redirect from New Goa)
    a planned grid system after the Portuguese relocated the capital from Velha Goa in the 17th century. It was elevated from a town to a city on 22 March...
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    The Velhas Conquistas or "Old Conquests" are a grouping of the areas in Goa which were incorporated into Portuguese India in the early half of the sixteenth...
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    Luso-Indian (section Goa)
    Pockets of Luso-Asians of the Indian subcontinent existed in Anjediva, Velha Goa, Damaon, Dio district, St Mary's islands of Mangalore, Bombay (Mumbai)...
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    Goa. These axes have been found in Goa Velha. During this period tribes of Austric origin such as the Kols, Mundaris and Kharvis may have settled Goa...
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  • Moreno de Souza (category Scholars from Goa)
    returned, as the postal officials did not realise it referred to Velha Goa in English. Velha Goa is the Portuguese name, which was used for more than a century...
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  • Nampula, Mozambique. Nova Goa (also known as Panjim or Panaji), the current capital of the state of Goa Velha Goa (also known as Old Goa), the former capital...
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  • Gopakapattana (category Geography of Goa)
    of Ela or today's Old Goa, India's wealthiest city and busiest port on the southwest coast. Goa Velha literally means Old Goa. This is often the reason...
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  • Goa is a state of India. Goans are commonly said to be born with music and football in their blood because both are deeply entrenched in Goan culture...
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    Ribandar (category Cities and towns in North Goa district)
    Ribandar is a town in Tiswadi, Goa, located between the cities of Panjim (Nova Goa) and Old Goa (Velha Goa). The name Ribandar originates from "Rayachem...
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  • The Goa Football League is a ladder-based football competition in the Indian state of Goa, organised by the Goa Football Association as part of the state...
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    the establishment of a permanent settlement in the city of Velha Goa (Old Goa in English). Goa (island) bore the seat of the viceroy, who governed all the...
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    south Konkan, in and around present-day Bombay and Goa. They had established their capital at Velha Goa captured from the Adil Shahi dynasty of Bijapur in...
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    and Convents of Goa is the name given by UNESCO to a set of religious monuments located in Goa Velha (or Old Goa), in the state of Goa, India, which were...
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    villages in the seven islands of Bombay remained under the capital of Velha Goa, only later were the islands fully acquired by the English East India...
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  • Roman Catholic Brahmin (category Social groups of Goa)
    annexed into the Portuguese East Indies, with the capital (metropole) at Velha Goa & Bombay (Bom Bahia) was the largest territory (province) of Portuguese...
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  • Laxmi Prasad v Goa Velha Sporting Goa v Salgaocar SESA v Santa Cruz Churchill Brothers v Calangute Association Sporting Goa v Dempo Goa Velha v Churchill...
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    Tiswadi taluka (redirect from Ilhas de Goa)
    remaining 0.50% follow other religions or stated no religion. Panjim, Velha Goa and its monuments, Divar, Chorão St Estevam, Cumbarjua, and Vanxim. Tiswadi...
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    of defense at Mormugão fort. The Ponda Fort near the capital city of Velha Goa was a strategic Maratha position. Hence the Portuguese viceroy Francisco...
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    the fort's officials were subordinate to the viceroy in the capital of Velha Goa. From 1534 to 1552, a priest by the name António do Porto converted over...
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    in Goa since the last century (Ethnic Goans represent less than 50% of the state's residents.) There is a higher proportion of Christians in Velhas Conquistas...
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    Joseph Vaz (category Scholars from Goa)
    progress in his studies that his father decided to send him to the city of Velha Goa for further studies; where he did a course in rhetoric and humanities...
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  • Goan Muslims (category Social groups of Goa)
    during the Portuguese conquest of Goa. The Muslim residents of Goa were exiled (e.g. Benastarim) or killed (e.g. Velha Goa) by the Portuguese and the local...
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    1509, Albuquerque became viceroy of the East Indies with the capital at Velha Goa, after the Cape route was discovered by Vasco da Gama. In contrast to...
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    Franciscan friars who landed in Goa in 1517. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Churches and convents of Goa. The following is the information...
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    the fort's officials were subordinate to the viceroy in the capital of Velha Goa. From 1534 to 1552, a priest by the name António do Porto converted over...
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    D'Souza, from Bodiem, Tivim in Goa became the fourth editor of Dor Mhoineachi Rotti. After shifting to Velha Goa in Goa around 1964, Fr. Moreno de Souza...
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    in the Portuguese music guitar, Cavaquinho Vindalho, typical Goan dish Velha Goa Galeria, Panaji Portuguese-influenced Thai delicacy, Khanom Kudichin Portuguese...
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