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Tiswadi is a taluka of 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....
 district of the state of Goa
Goa

Goa is India's smallest states and territories of India in terms of area and the List of states and territories of India by population. Located on the west coast of India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its western...
, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
.The word Tiswadi itself means thirty settlements. It refers to the thirty settlements in which the Goud Saraswat Brahmin
Brahmin

Brahmin is the class of educators, law makers, scholars and preachers of Dharma in Hinduism. It is said to occupy the highest position among the varna in Hinduism of Hinduism....
s settled when they migrated to Goa. It is geographically an Island with the Mandovi river forming its northern boundary. The taluka of Tiswadi includes the smaller islands of Divar
Divar

The island of Divar lies in the state of Goa,India....
 and Chorao
Chorao

Chorao is an island along the river Mandovi near Panaji, Goa, India.The island was called chudamani, meaning stunning precious stone in Sanskrit....
 The present capital of Goa,Panaji
Panaji

Panaji is the capital of the Indian state of Goa. It lies on the banks of the Mandovi River estuary, in the district of North Goa. With a population of 65,000 , Panaji is Goa's third largest city after Vasco da Gama and Margao....
 lis on this island.






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Tiswadi is a taluka of 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....
 district of the state of Goa
Goa

Goa is India's smallest states and territories of India in terms of area and the List of states and territories of India by population. Located on the west coast of India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its western...
, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
.The word Tiswadi itself means thirty settlements. It refers to the thirty settlements in which the Goud Saraswat Brahmin
Brahmin

Brahmin is the class of educators, law makers, scholars and preachers of Dharma in Hinduism. It is said to occupy the highest position among the varna in Hinduism of Hinduism....
s settled when they migrated to Goa. It is geographically an Island with the Mandovi river forming its northern boundary. The taluka of Tiswadi includes the smaller islands of Divar
Divar

The island of Divar lies in the state of Goa,India....
 and Chorao
Chorao

Chorao is an island along the river Mandovi near Panaji, Goa, India.The island was called chudamani, meaning stunning precious stone in Sanskrit....
 The present capital of Goa,Panaji
Panaji

Panaji is the capital of the Indian state of Goa. It lies on the banks of the Mandovi River estuary, in the district of North Goa. With a population of 65,000 , Panaji is Goa's third largest city after Vasco da Gama and Margao....
 lis on this island. Tiswadi is also where the city of Old Goa(Goa Velha} was established where magnificent church of Bom Jesus
Bom Jesus

Bom Jesus may refer to:...
 lies.
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History

Tiswadi with the rest of Goa was part of the Vijaynagar Kingdom of South India
South India

South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the Union territories of India of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of area....
 in the 14th century. In the 15th century the Adil shahi sultanate conquered Goa and it came under Muslim rule. Hindus were persecuted and temples were Hindu temples were destroyed. This included the famous temple of Ganesh on the Island of Divar
Divar

The island of Divar lies in the state of Goa,India....
 which has been recently rebuilt. The Portuguese conquered Tiswadi under Afonso de Albuquerque
Afonso de Albuquerque

Dom Afonso de Albuquerque was a Portugal fidalgo, or nobleman, a naval general officer whose military and administrative activities conquered and established the Portuguese empire in the Indian ocean....
 in 1510. While this brought some relief, the aggressive Portuguese began forced conversions to Christianity in the 16th century. All the Hindu temples in Tiswadi were destroyed and Churches built. The populace was made to accept Christianity or leave the Island. There was a mass exodus of Konkani
Konkani people

Konkani people form an ethnic group mainly found in the Konkan Coast of western India who speak the Konkani language natively.The word Konkani derives from kum, meaning 'Mother Earth' and kana, meaning 'piece/part' thereby meaning a strip of land along the western Indian coast beyond the Western Ghat mountains called as Konkan....
 Hindus who left Goa for the safe havens of Ponda and the Canara
Kanara

The Kanara or Canara region that comprises three coastal districts of Karnataka, a southern state of India. Tulu, Konkani language and Kannada are the main languages spoken here....
 and Malabar
Malabar

Malabar is a region of southern India, lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea.The name is thought to be derived from the Malayalam word Mala and Iranian language word Bar or from the Turkic words Mal and Bar ....
 Coast. The first Hindu temple to be rebuilt in Panaji was the Shree Mahalakshmi temple by the Mhamai Kamats who petitioned the Portuguese authorities for permission to built their place of worship. Since the liberation of Goa in 1961 and its incorporation into modern India,there is complete freedom of religion
Freedom of religion

Freedom of religion is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in religious education, practice, worship, and observance....
 as per the writ of the Indian constitution.

Highlights

Panaji
Panaji

Panaji is the capital of the Indian state of Goa. It lies on the banks of the Mandovi River estuary, in the district of North Goa. With a population of 65,000 , Panaji is Goa's third largest city after Vasco da Gama and Margao....
, Goa Velha and its monuments, Divar
Divar

The island of Divar lies in the state of Goa,India....
, Chorao
Chorao

Chorao is an island along the river Mandovi near Panaji, Goa, India.The island was called chudamani, meaning stunning precious stone in Sanskrit....


See also

Goa
Goa

Goa is India's smallest states and territories of India in terms of area and the List of states and territories of India by population. Located on the west coast of India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its western...
, Konkani people
Konkani people

Konkani people form an ethnic group mainly found in the Konkan Coast of western India who speak the Konkani language natively.The word Konkani derives from kum, meaning 'Mother Earth' and kana, meaning 'piece/part' thereby meaning a strip of land along the western Indian coast beyond the Western Ghat mountains called as Konkan....
, History of Goa
History of Goa

Goa is a small state on the western coast of India. Goa was the first part of India that was colonized by Europeans and also the last to be liberated....
, Salcette
Salcette

Salcette is a taluka of South Goa District in the Indian state of Goa. Its administrative and economic headquarters is Margao. It is largely coterminous with a region called Saxtty , which comprised, by local tradition, sixty-six villages, hence the name....
, 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....
, Goan Catholics
Goan Catholics

Goan Catholics are Roman Catholic Church from the former Portuguese India colony of Goa, a region on the west coast of India. They are Konkani people and speak the Konkani language....