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The history of Goa dates back to prehistoric times, ... coastal Maharashtra, Goa, and approximately half of the North Kanara district. ... Timeline of Goan history ...
c. 80,000 – c. 100,000, B.P.(Before Portuguese) Arrival of modern Homo sapiens in the valleys of Mandovi and Zuari as evidenced from Acheulian handaxes. c. 80,000 – c. 8000 B.P. Stone Age of Goa, cave dwellings, hunter -food gatherer society, humans migrate from the river banks towards the coast in search of sea salt, the first rudimentary petroglyphs (Usgao), birth of shamanism and cult ...
Timeline of Maharashtra history. 1 language. ... 1 November 1956: Bombay state enlarged to include all of present Maharashtra. 1 May 1960: ...
Although Islamic rulers dominated most of Maharashtra region after the fall of Deogiri Yadavas, in the Vidarbha region of present-day Maharashtra—and adjoining areas of present-day Telangana, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh—the Gond tribal people established kingdoms that remained free until the advent of the Mughals. From the reign of ...
Goa at its height under Portuguese occupation. The Velhas Conquistas are highlighted in red. 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. Goa, Daman and Diu comprised the last remaining Portuguese possessions in India.
The name of Gopa rashtra forms part among the various kingdoms of Ancient India as narrated in the epic Mahabharata. [6]The state of Goa is described as ancient Goparashtra and it takes its present name from earlier used terms like- Gomant, Gomantaka, Govarashtra or Goparashtra.
Goa is a unique Eastern place with a Westernised cultural identity of its own, having been part of the Portuguese East Indies for over 450 years. [3] If Goa was merged, Goan culture would be subsumed in Marathi culture and disappear. Goa would be reduced from a state to a "backwater district of Maharashtra".
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