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The first converts to Christianity in Goa were native Goan women who married Portuguese men that arrived with Afonso de Albuquerque. [1] The city of Goa became the center of Christianisation in the east. [8] The evangelisation activities in Goa were divided in 1555 by the Portuguese viceroy of Goa, Pedro Mascarenhas.
The first converts to Christianity in Goa were native Goan women who married Portuguese men that arrived with Afonso de Albuquerque during the Portuguese conquest of Goa in 1510. [6] Christian maidens of Goa meeting a Portuguese nobleman seeking a wife, from the Códice Casanatense (c. 1540) During the mid-16th century, the city of Goa, was the ...
The present-day state of Goa was established in 1987. [1] Goa is India's smallest state by area.It shares a lot of similarities with Indian history, especially with regard to colonial influences and a multi-cultural aesthetic.
Goa was founded and built by ancient Hindu kingdoms and had served as a capital of the Kadamba dynasty.In late 13th-century, a Muslim invasion led to the plunder of Goa by Malik Kafur on behalf of Alauddin Khilji and an Islamic occupation. [31]
The Goan Muslims are a minority community who follow Islam in the Indian coastal state of Goa, some are also present in the union territory of Damaon, Diu & Silvassa.They are native to Goa, unlike recent Muslim migrants from mainland India, and are commonly referred to as Moir (Konkani: मैर) by Goans in Goan Konkani.
In Goa, the Brahmins were engaged in the priestly occupation, but had also taken up various occupations like agriculture, trade, goldsmithing, etc. [14] The origins of this particular caste can be traced back to the Christianisation of the Velhas Conquistas (Portuguese: Old Conquests) that was undertaken by the Portuguese, during the 16th & 17th centuries.
Christian maidens of Goa meeting a Portuguese nobleman seeking a wife, circa 1540. In 1534, the Archdiocese of Goa was established. Soon missionaries of the newly founded Society of Jesus were sent to Goa, which led to the conversion of entire villages to Christianity. [6]
The precise etymology of the word Chardo is unclear. Two most probable explanations are as follows: [13] The roots of this Konkani word is said to lie in the Prakrit word Chavda, which is the name of a dynasty who are said to have migrated to Old Goa from Saurashtra in the 7th and 8th centuries, after their kingdom was destroyed by the Sunni Caliphate's conquest in around 740 AD.