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Pernem

Pernem is a northmost administrative region or Taluka in North Goa

North Goa

North Goa is one of the two districts that make up the state of Goa, India. The district has an area of 1736 km?, and is bounded by Sindhudurg District and Kolhapur District districts of Maharashtra state to the north and east respectively, by South Goa District to the south, and by the Arabian Sea to the west....
. It is also the name of the town of Pernem

Pernem

Pernem is a northmost administrative region or Taluka in North Goa. It is also the name of the town of Pernem, which is its headquarters. It has a Municipal Council....
, which is its headquarters. It has a Municipal Council. Geographically, Pernem is surrounded by Bicholim taluka on East, Arabian Sea

Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by Arabian Peninsula, on the south, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui, the north-east point of Somalia, Socotra, Kanyakumari in India, and the western coast of Sri Lanka....
on West, Bardez

Bardez

Bardez is the name of a region in North Goa. The name is credited to the Brahmin immigrants who migrated to the Konkan via Magadha in Gangetic India from Aryavarta, in the north-western part of the Indian sub-continent....
taluka on south and Sawantwadi taluka (Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a States and territories of India located on the western coast of India. Maharashtra is a part of Western India. It is India's List of states of India by area and List of states of India by population....
State) on north.

em is counted as belonging to one of the two Goan sub-regions, the Novas Conquistas

Novas Conquistas

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Pernem is a northmost administrative region or Taluka in North Goa

North Goa

Pernem

Arabian Sea

Bardez

Maharashtra

History

Pernem is counted as belonging to one of the two Goan sub-regions, the Novas Conquistas

Novas Conquistas

The Novas Conquistas are a group of seven administrative districts or concelhos of mainland Goa, India which were added onto Goa at a comparatively later date than the original three concelhos that make up the Velhas Conquistas....
, or New Conquests. It was taken over, lost and finally regained from the Rajas of Sawantwadi, a state on Goa's northern border that allied sometimes with the Portuguese and sometimes with the Marathas. (The Kingdom of Sawantwadi was integrated into the district of Ratnagiri

Ratnagiri

Ratnagiri The Sahyadri mountains border Ratnagiri on its west. Heavy rainfall results in highly eroded landscape in the coastal region, but fertile alluvial valleys in the region produce abundant rice, coconuts, cashew nuts, and fruits, delicious "Hapus" mangoes being one of the main fruits....
after 1947 and is now part of the district of Sindhudurg

Sindhudurg

Sindhudurg is a fortress which occupies an islet in the Arabian Sea, just off the coast of Maharashtra in western India. The fortress lies on the shore of Malvan town of Sindhudurg District in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, south of Mumbai....
). Later, it was largely belonged to Deshprabhu family as an estate. After Liberation of Goa by Indian Armed Forces from Portuguese, it became part of Union Territory of Goa.

Pernem is the Portuguese spelling (the m only makes the e nasal). The name in Konkani and Marathi is Pedne, and inhabitants are called Pednecar in Konkani and Pedneker in Marathi (giving the spoken forms). The surname Pednekar used by Konkanasthas indicates origins in Pernem.

Location

The Konkan Railway

Konkan Railway

The Konkan Railway is a railway line which runs along along the Konkan of India. It was constructed and is operated by a Konkan Railway Corporation....
passes through Pernem, and there is a stop called Pernem Road at a distance of about 4 km east from the town. The proposed Mopa International Airport is situated at Mopa in Pernem Taluka. National Highway 17 (NH-17), which connects Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai— formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The city proper has approximately 14 million people and, along with the neighbouring suburbs of Navi Mumbai and Thane, Mumbai forms the World's largest urban agglomerations according to the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report with around 19...
(Bombay) and Goa, passes through Pernem (bypassed at Malpem)

Culture

Pedne hosts a very popular annual fair on Kojagiri poornima

Kojagiri poornima

The Sharad Purnima or Kojaagari Purnima is a harvest festival celebrated on the full moon day of the Hindu lunar month of Ashwin . The rainy season is over and the brightness of the full moon brings special joy....
at Shri Bhagavati Temple premises.

Pernem has contributed immensely to the cultural and literary scene of Goa.