Goans, the Glossary
Goans (गोंयकार, Romi Konkani:, Goeses) is the demonym used to describe the people native to Goa, India, who form an ethno-linguistic group resulting from the assimilation of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Indo-Portuguese, Austro-Asiatic ethnic and/or linguistic ancestries.[1]
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150 relations: Africanization, Angela Trindade, Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1878, Anglosphere, Angola, Anjanibai Malpekar, Annexation of Goa, António Costa, António Fortunato de Figueiredo, António Maria de Bettencourt Rodrigues, Anvita Abbi, Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Australo-Melanesian, Ayesha Kidwai, Bago, Myanmar, Bardez taluka, Bombay East Indians, Bombay Presidency, Braz Fernandes, Brexit, British Empire, British Raj, British rule in Burma, Caste, Catholic Church, Catholic Church in India, Charles Correa, Christianization of Goa, Christians, Claire Coutinho, Colonial Brazil, Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire, Decolonisation of Africa, Demonym, Devanagari, Dharmaśāstra, Dravidian languages, Dutch–Portuguese War, East Indian language, East Midlands, Endogamy, English language, English people, Ethnic groups in South Asia, Ethnolinguistics, European Union, Expulsion of Asians from Uganda, Frederika Menezes, Goa, Goa Inquisition, ... Expand index (100 more) »
- Goan society
- People from Goa
Africanization
Africanization or Africanisation (lit., making something African) has been applied in various contexts, notably in geographic and personal naming and in the composition of the civil service via processes such as indigenization.
Angela Trindade
Angela Trindade (10 August 1909 – 20 March 1980) was an Indian painter famous for her Western-style portraits and Christian paintings in the Indian style.
Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1878
The Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1878 was an economic agreement between Portugal and the United Kingdom regarding their trade and a railway between their colonies in India.
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Anglosphere
The Anglosphere is the Anglo-American sphere of influence, with a core group of nations that today maintain close political, diplomatic and military co-operation.
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.
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Anjanibai Malpekar
Anjanibai Malpekar (22 April 1883 – 7 August 1974) was a noted Indian classical singer, belonging to the Bhendibazaar gharana of Hindustani classical music.
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Annexation of Goa
The Annexation of Goa was the process in which the Republic of India annexed the Portuguese State of India, the then Portuguese Indian territories of Goa, Daman and Diu, starting with the armed action carried out by the Indian Armed Forces in December 1961.
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António Costa
António Luís Santos da Costa (born 17 July 1961) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician who served as the 118th prime minister of Portugal from 2015 to 2024, presiding over the XXI (2015–2019), XXII (2019–2022) and XXIII Constitutional Governments (2022–2024).
António Fortunato de Figueiredo
Maestro António Fortunato de Figueiredo ComSE (20 August 1903 – 1981) was a Goan conductor and violinist.
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António Maria de Bettencourt Rodrigues
Antonio Maria de Bettencourt Rodrigues (São Nicolau, Portuguese Cape Verde, 5 March 1854 – Monte Estoril (Cascais), 1933) was a Portuguese diplomat, medical doctor and politician.
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Anvita Abbi
Professor Anvita Abbi (born 9 January 1949) is an Indian linguist and scholar of minority languages, known for her studies on tribal languages and other minority languages of South Asia.
Arab states of the Persian Gulf
The Arab states of the Persian Gulf or the Arab Gulf states (دول الخليج العربي) refers to a group of Arab states bordering the Persian Gulf.
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Australo-Melanesian
Australo-Melanesians (also known as Australasians or the Australomelanesoid, Australoid or Australioid race) is an outdated historical grouping of various people indigenous to Melanesia and Australia.
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Ayesha Kidwai
Ayesha Kidwai is an Indian theoretical linguist.
Bago, Myanmar
Bago (formerly spelled Pegu), formerly known as Hanthawaddy, is a city and the capital of the Bago Region in Myanmar.
Bardez taluka
Bardez or Bardes (IPA) is a ''taluka'' of the North Goa district in the Indian state of Goa.
Bombay East Indians
The East Indians, also called East Indian Catholics or Bombay East Indians, are an ethno-religious Indian Christian community native to the Seven Islands of Bombay and the neighbouring Mumbai Metropolitan Area of the Konkan division.
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Bombay Presidency
The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also called Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India and later the Dominion of India, with its capital in the city that came up over the seven islands of Bombay.
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Braz Fernandes
Braz Fernandes ComC (3 February 1791 – 9 November 1865) was a Portuguese diplomat and philanthropist.
Brexit
Brexit (portmanteau of "British exit") was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU).
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
British Raj
The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.
British rule in Burma
The British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence.
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Caste
A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Catholic Church in India
The Catholic Church in India is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the leadership of the Pope.
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Charles Correa
Charles Mark Correa (1 September 1930 – 16 June 2015) was an Indian architect and urban planner. Credited with the creation of modern architecture in post-Independent India, he was celebrated for his sensitivity to the needs of the urban poor and for his use of traditional methods and materials.
Christianization of Goa
The indigenous population of the erstwhile Portuguese colony of Goa, Daman and Diu underwent Christianisation following the Portuguese conquest of Goa in 1510, which was followed by the Goa Inquisition from 1560 onwards.
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Christians
A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Claire Coutinho
Claire Coryl Julia Coutinho (born 8 July 1985) is a British politician and former investment banker who served as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero from August 2023 to July 2024.
Colonial Brazil
Colonial Brazil (Brasil Colonial) comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to a kingdom in union with Portugal.
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire is a 2015 history book by historian Roger Crowley.
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Decolonisation of Africa
The decolonisation of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa that spanned from the mid-1950s to 1975, during the Cold War.
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Demonym
A demonym or gentilic is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place.
Devanagari
Devanagari (देवनागरी) is an Indic script used in the northern Indian subcontinent.
Dharmaśāstra
Dharmaśāstra (धर्मशास्त्र) are Sanskrit Puranic Smriti texts on law and conduct, and refer to treatises (śāstras) on Dharma.
Dravidian languages
The Dravidian languages (sometimes called Dravidic) are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan, with pockets elsewhere in South Asia.
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Dutch–Portuguese War
The Dutch–Portuguese War was a global armed conflict involving Dutch forces, in the form of the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch West India Company, and their allies, against the Iberian Union, and after 1640, the Portuguese Empire.
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East Indian language
The East Indian language or East Indian dialect, also known as Mobai Mahratti and East Indian Marathi, is the form of Marathi-Konkani languages spoken in Bombay (Mumbai).
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East Midlands
The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England.
Endogamy
Endogamy is the cultural practice of mating within a specific social group, religious denomination, caste, or ethnic group, rejecting any from outside of the group or belief structure as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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English people
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.
Ethnic groups in South Asia
Ethnic groups in South Asia are ethnolinguistic groupings within the diverse populations of South Asia, including the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
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Ethnolinguistics
Ethnolinguistics (sometimes called cultural linguistics) is an area of anthropological linguistics that studies the relationship between a language and the cultural behavior of the people who speak that language.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
Expulsion of Asians from Uganda
In early August 1972, the President of Uganda Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of his country's Indian minority, giving them 90 days to leave the country.
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Frederika Menezes
Frederika Menezes (born 1979 or 1980) is an Indian author, poet, and artist best known for her book Unforgotten, a love story for young adults published in 2014.
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Goa
Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.
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Goa Inquisition
The Goa Inquisition (Inquisição de Goa) was an extension of the Portuguese Inquisition in Portuguese India.
Goan Catholics
Goan Catholics (Goenchem Katholik) are an ethno-religious community of Indian Christians adhering to the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church from the Goa state, in the southern part of the Konkan region along the west coast of India. Goans and Goan Catholics are Goan society and people from Goa.
Goan cuisine
Goan cuisine consists of regional foods popular in Goa, an Indian state located along India's west coast on the shore of the Arabian Sea.
Goan literature
Goan literature is the literature pertaining to the state of Goa in India.
Goan Muslims
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.
This page is about Goan achievers in the world of sport.
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Goykanadi
or Kandavī is a Brahmic script that was once used in the territory of Goa to write Konkani and sometimes Marathi in the Konkan coast.
Guntakal–Vasco da Gama section
The Guntakal–Vasco da Gama section, or Mormugao Railway (formerly known as West of India Portuguese Railway), is a railway line connecting the town of Guntakal in Andhra Pradesh and Vasco da Gama in Goa, India.
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Hinduism in Goa
Hinduism is the majority religion of people living in Goa.
Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
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Hindustani language
Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India, Pakistan and the Deccan and used as the official language of India and Pakistan. Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (written in Devanagari script and influenced by Sanskrit) and Urdu (written in Perso-Arabic script and influenced by Persian and Arabic).
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History of Bombay under British rule (1661–1947)
Bombay, also called Bom baim in Portuguese, is the financial and commercial capital of India and one of the most populous cities in the world.
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History of Kolkata
Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) was a colonial city.
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History of Pune
Pune is the 9th most populous city in India and one of the largest in the state of Maharashtra.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Indo-Aryan languages
The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family.
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Instituto Camões
The Instituto Camões (English: Camões Institute), formally, Camões — Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I. P. (English: Camões — Institute for Cooperation and Language, Public Institute), is a Portuguese international institution dedicated to the worldwide promotion of the Portuguese language, Portuguese culture, and international aid, on behalf of the Government of Portugal.
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Jack de Sequeira
João Hugo Eduardo de Sequeira (20 April 1915 – 19 February 1989), popularly known as Dr.
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Jaime Valfredo Rangel
Francisco Newton João Vicente da Piedade Jaime Valfredo Rangel (13 February 1897 – 6 July 1959) was a medical practitioner, director of Tipografia Rangel (Rangel Printing Press), president of the municipal council of Bardez (Mayor of Bardez) in Goa and a delegate to the International Labour Organization for Portugal.
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Jāti
Jāti is the term traditionally used to describe a cohesive group of people in the Indian subcontinent, like a tribe, community, clan, sub-clan, or a religious sect.
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José Camillo Lisboa
José Camillo Lisboa (5 March 1823 – 1 May 1897) was a Portuguese-Goan physician and botanist.
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Joseph Vaz
Joseph Vaz, CO (Konkani: San Zuze Vaza; São José Vaz; ಪವಿತ್ರಾ ಯೋಸೆಫ್ ವಾಸ್ ಸಂತರು Pavitra Yoseph Vaz Santaru; புனித சூசை வாஸ் முனிவர் Punitha Sūsai Vas Munivar; ශාන්ත ජුසේ වාස් මුනිතුමා, ශ්රී ලංකාවේ අපෝස්තුළුවරයාණන් Santha Juse Vas Munithuma, Sri Lankawe Aposthuluvaraya) (21 April 165116 January 1711) was an Oratorian priest and missionary in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), originally from Sancoale in Portuguese India.
Kala pani (taboo)
The kala pani (lit. black water) represents the proscription of the over reaching seas in Hinduism.
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Kanara
Kanara or Canara, also known as Karavali, is the historically significant stretch of land situated by the southwestern coast of India, alongside the Arabian Sea in the present-day Indian state of Karnataka.
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Kannada
Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), formerly also known as Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states.
Karachi
Karachi (کراچی) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh.
Karnataka
Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.
Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.
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Kerala
Kerala (/), called Keralam in Malayalam, is a state on the Malabar Coast of India.
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Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
Konkan
The Konkan is a stretch of land by the western coast of India, bound by the river Daman Ganga at Damaon in the north, to Anjediva Island next to Karwar town in the south; with the Arabian Sea to the west and the Deccan plateau to the east.
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Konkani in the Roman script
Konkani in the Roman script, commonly known as Roman Konkani or Romi Konknni refers to the writing of the Konkani language in the Roman script.
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Konkani language
Konkani (Devanagari: sc, Romi: sc, Kannada: sc, Malayalam: sc, Perso-Arabic: sc, IAST) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Konkani people, primarily in the Konkan region, along the western coast of India.
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Konkani people
The Konkani people are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group native to the Konkan region of the Indian subcontinent who speak various dialects of the Konkani language.
Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
Leena Fernandes
Leena Dias (née Fernandes; 19 December 1929 – 30 July 2021) was an Indian actress known for her role in the first Konkani film, Mogacho Aunddo (1950).
Leicester
Leicester is a city, unitary authority area, unparished area and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England.
List of people from Goa
This is a list of notable people from Goa, India. Goans and list of people from Goa are people from Goa.
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Literacy in India
Literacy in India is a key for social-economic progress.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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Luso-Asians
Luso-Asians (Portuguese: luso-asiáticos) are Eurasian people whose ethnicity is partially or wholly Portuguese and ancestrally are based in or hail primarily from Portugal, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia.
Luso-Indian
Luso-Indians or Portuguese-Indian, is a subgroup of the larger Eurasian multiracial ethnic creole people of Luso-Asians.
M. C. Albuquerque
Mary C. Albuquerque (born about 1890 – died after 1952), known professionally as M. C. Albuquerque or MC Albuquerque, was an Indian physician.
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Maharashtra
Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.
Malawi
Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.
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Mangalore
Mangalore, officially known as Mangalururomanized: Maikala)-->, is a major industrial port city in the Indian state of Karnataka and on the west coast of India. It is located between the Laccadive Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bangalore, the state capital, 14 km north of Karnataka–Kerala border and 297 km south of Goa.
Mangalorean Catholics
Mangalorean Catholics (italic) are an ethno-religious community of Latin Christians from the Diocese of Mangalore and the erstwhile South Canara area, by the southwestern coast of present-day Karnataka, India.
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Maratha–Portuguese War (1683–1684)
The Maratha–Portuguese War of 1683–1684 refers to the Mahratta invasion of the Portuguese-controlled portions of Goa and the Bombay area of coastal Konkan.
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Marathi language
Marathi (मराठी) is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Marathi people
The Marathi people (Marathi: मराठी लोक, Marāṭhī lōk) or Marathis (Marathi: मराठी, Marāṭhī) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are native to Maharashtra in western India.
Modi script
Modi (मोडी) is a script used to write the Marathi language, which is the primary language spoken in the state of Maharashtra, India.
Moors
The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages.
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Mormugao Port
Mormugao Port is a port on the western coast of India, in the coastal state of Goa.
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.
Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Muscat
Muscat (مَسْقَط) is the capital and most populated city in Oman.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.
Narana Coissoró
Narana Sinai Coissoró, GOIP GOC GCIH (born 3 October 1933), is a Portuguese lawyer, professor and retired politician of the right-wing CDS – People's Party (Centro Democrático e Social/Partido Popular – CDS/PP).
Norteiro people
Norteiros (lit. Northerners) were a historical people who lived in the former Portuguese exclaves in the western littoral parts of the northern Konkan region, in the present-day Greater Bombay Metropolitan Area and the federal territory of Damaon, Dio & Silvassa.
Novas Conquistas
The Novas Conquistas or "New Conquests" are a group of seven concelhos (municipalities) of Goa and Damaon, officially known as Portuguese India.
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Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics (ONS; Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.
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Ormus
The Kingdom of Ormus (also known as Hormoz or Hormuz; هرمز; Ormuz) was located in the eastern side of the Persian Gulf and extended as far as Bahrain in the west at its zenith.
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Parsis
The Parsis (singular: Parsi) or Parsees are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent adhering to Zoroastrianism.
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Persian alphabet
The Persian alphabet (translit), also known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
Portuguese Africa
Portuguese Africa may refer to.
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Portuguese Ceylon
Portuguese Ceylon (Ceilão Português; පෘතුගීසි ලංකාව; போர்த்துக்கேய இலங்கை) is the name given to the territory on Ceylon, modern-day Sri Lanka, controlled by the Portuguese Empire between 1597 and 1658.
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Portuguese conquest of Goa
The Portuguese conquest of Goa occurred when the governor Afonso de Albuquerque captured the city in 1510 from the Adil Shahis.
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Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire (Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas or the Portuguese Colonial Empire, was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal.
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Portuguese India
The State of India (Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Estado Português da India, EPI) or simply Portuguese India (Índia Portuguesa), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama, a subject of the Kingdom of Portugal.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Portuguese language in Goa
The Portuguese controlled Goa until 1961, when India took over.
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Portuguese Malacca
Portuguese control of Malacca –a city on the Malay Peninsula– spanned a 130 year period from 1511 to 1641 as a possession of the Portuguese East Indies.
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Portuguese name
A Portuguese name, or Lusophone name – a personal name in the Portuguese language – is typically composed of one or two personal names, the mother's family surname and the father's family surname (rarely only one surname, sometimes more than two).
Portuguese passport
A Portuguese passport (Passaporte português) is an identity document issued to citizens of Portugal for the purpose of international travel.
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Portuguese people
The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.
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Portuguese Timor
Portuguese Timor (Timor Português) was a colonial possession of Portugal that existed between 1702 and 1975.
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Portuguese-speaking world
The Portuguese-speaking world, also known as the Lusophone World (Mundo Lusófono), comprises the countries and territories in which the Portuguese language is an official, administrative, cultural, or secondary language.
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Prakrit
Prakrit is a group of vernacular Middle Indo-Aryan languages that were used in the Indian subcontinent from around the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE.
Pune
Pune, previously spelled in English as Poona (the official name until 1978), is a city in Maharashtra state in the Deccan plateau in Western India.
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Reita Faria
Reita Faria Powell (née Faria; born 23 August 1943) is an Indian physician, former model and the winner of Miss World 1966 pageant.
Religious conversion
Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others.
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Roman Catholic Brahmin
Roman Catholic Brahmin (IAST Bamonns in Romi Konkani & Kupari in Bombay East Indian dialects) is a caste among the Goan, Bombay East Indian and Mangalorean Catholics who are descendants of Konkani Brahmin converts to the Latin Catholic Church, in parts of the Konkan region that were annexed into the Portuguese East Indies, with the capital (metropole) at Velha Goa, while Bombay (Bom Bahia) was the largest territory (province) of Portuguese India. Goans and Roman Catholic Brahmin are Goan society.
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Roman Catholic Kshatriya
Roman Catholic Kshatriyas (also simply Cxatrias in Romi Konkani, Indo-Portuguese & Indian English) are a modern Christianised caste among Goan, Bombay East Indian, Mangalorean, Kudali & Karwari Catholics. Goans and Roman Catholic Kshatriya are Goan society.
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Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado
Msgr Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado (8 May 1855 – 4 April 1922) (Romanised Konkani: Sebastav Rodolf Dalgad) was a Catholic priest, academic, university professor, theologian, orientalist, and linguist from Portuguese Goa.
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Sikhs
Sikhs (singular Sikh: or; sikkh) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.
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Southall
Southall is a large suburban town in West London, England, part of the London Borough of Ealing and is one of its seven major towns. It is situated west of Charing Cross and had a population of 69,857 as of 2011. It is generally divided in three parts: the mostly residential area around Lady Margaret Road (Dormers Wells); the main commercial centre at High Street and Southall Broadway (part of the greater Uxbridge Road); and Old Southall/Southall Green to the south consisting of Southall railway station, industries and Norwood Green bounded by the M4.
Sultanate of Bijapur
The Sultanate of Bijapur was an early modern kingdom in the western Deccan and South India, ruled by the Adil Shahi or Adilshahi dynasty.
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Swindon
Swindon is a town in Wiltshire, England.
Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
Vamona Navelcar
Vamona Ananta Sinai Navelcar (5 May 1930 – 18 October 2021) was an artist from Goa, India, who had studied and worked in Portugal, Mozambique, and Goa.
Vasai
Vasai (Konkani and Marathi pronunciation: ʋəsəi; British English: Bassein; formerly and alternatively Marathi; Bajipur) is a historical place and city located in Palghar district; which was partitioned out of the Thana district in 2014.
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Velhas Conquistas
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 century AD.
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Vimala Devi
Teresa da Piedade de Baptista Almeida (born), known by her pen name Vimala Devi, is a Goan writer, poet, and translator.
War of the League of the Indies
The War of the League of the Indies (December 1570–1575) was a military conflict in which a pan-Asian alliance formed primarily by the Sultanate of Bijapur, the Sultanate of Ahmadnagar, the Kingdom of Calicut, and the Sultanate of Aceh, referred to by the Portuguese historian António Pinto Pereira as the "league of kings of India", "the confederated kings", or simply "the league", attempted to decisively overturn Portuguese presence in the Indian Ocean through a combined assault on some of the main possessions of the Portuguese State of India: Malacca, Chaul, Chale fort, and the capital of the maritime empire in Asia, Goa.
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Wembley
Wembley is a large suburbIn British English, "suburb" often refers to the secondary urban centres of a city. Wembley is not a suburb in the American sense, i.e. a single-family residential area outside of the city itself. in the London Borough of Brent, north-west London, northwest of Charing Cross.
See also
Goan society
- Caste system in Goa
- Culture of Goa
- Gauda and Kunbi
- Goan Catholic names and surnames
- Goan Catholics
- Goans
- Gomant Vibhushan
- Gomantak Maratha Samaj
- Kalidás Barreto
- Last Hippie Standing
- Miguel Caetano Dias
- Religion in Goa
- Roman Catholic Brahmin
- Roman Catholic Kshatriya
- San Franciscu Xavier-a, tuji kudd-i Goeam xara
- Shenoy
- Yashadamini Puraskar
People from Goa
- Anil Joseph Thomas Couto
- Anthony Alwyn Fernandes Barreto
- Bruno Souza (architect)
- Goan Catholics
- Goan people
- Goans
- Harminder Singh Nihang
- J C Almeida
- John D'Souza
- List of people from Goa
- Maluda (artist)
- Mathias Fernandes
- Paresh Narendra Kamat
- Romuald D'Souza
- Roque Santana Fernandes
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goans
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