Goa, Daman, and Diu

American

[goh-uh] / ˈgoʊ ə /

noun

an administrative territory of India, in the W part: formerly Portuguese India; annexed by India 1961. 1,426 sq. mi. (3,693 sq. km). Panjim.

Goa, Daman, and Diu British

noun

a former Union Territory of India consisting of the widely separated districts of Goa and Daman and the island of Diu. Capital: Panjim (or Panaji). Area: 3814 sq km (1472 sq miles)

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A few strips along the African coast, tenuously held by sufferance of the great powers, and bits of territory at Goa, Daman, and Diu in India, are the twentieth century remnants of Portugal's colonial empire.

From A History of Sea Power by Stevens, William Oliver

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