Goa is a small state on the western coast of India. Even though it is the smallest of all Indian states it has played a very noteworthy role in Indian history. Goa was one of the major trade centers in India, thus it had always been attracting the influential dynasties, seafarers, merchants, traders, monks and missionaries since its earliest known history. Through the passage of time, Goa has undergone a constant flux, transition, change and transformation, which has left an indelible impression on various aspects of cultural and socio-economic development of Goa.
The Portuguese Conquest of Goa occurred in 1510 on behalf of the Portuguese admiral Afonso de Albuquerque. Goa (also Old Goa or Velha Goa) was not among the cities Albuquerque had received orders to conquer: he had only been ordered by the Portuguese king to capture Hormuz,Aden and Malacca.
The city of Goa had been garrisonned since at least 1504 by Ottoman troops: 400 soldiers under an "Osmani Turkish Mamluk", a Persian from the northern Persia city of Sâva, named Yusuf Adil Shah of Bijapur.
Albuquerque attacked Goa at the invitation of a local chieftain Thimayya, an exiled Hindu from Goa who was admiral of the Honavar fleet who had received appeals from the Hindu population of Goa to relieve them from Muslim rule.Goa was a great and prosperous trading port on the Indian coast.Wikipedia
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Map of Goa, in Histoire générale des Voyages, de la Harpe, 1750. | |||||||
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.svg){kind=small} Portuguese Empire | Bijapur Sultanate.svg){kind=small} Ottoman Empire | ||||||
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| Afonso de Albuquerque Thimayya | Yusuf Adil Shah | ||||||
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| 1500 Portuguese 300 Malabarese 34 ships | Unknown | ||||||
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Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
