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Main article: History of Bombay under Portuguese rule (1534–1661)
Island of Bombay and Colaba
The Seven Islands of Bombay (Portuguese: Ilhas de Bom Baim) were 16th-century Portuguese colonial possessions lying off the Konkan region by the mid-west coast of India.
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respectively to form Greater Bombay. These islands now constitute the southern part of the city ofBombay (Mumbai). The original sevenislands handed over to England...
Christian Bombay East Indians as 'Mazgon' or 'Maz-a-gon' and Marathi-speakers as Mazhgav.[citation needed] It was one of the sevenislandsofBombay. It is...
Islands of Bombay, the sevenislands which united to form the islandofBombaySevenIslands (West Virginia), a group ofseven bar islands in West Virginia...
British India and later the Dominion of India, with its capital in the city that came up over the sevenislandsofBombay. The first mainland territory was...
Vellard was a project to build a causeway uniting all sevenislandsofBombay into a single island with a deep natural harbour. The project was started...
and the Roman script are used by most of its speakers, who are the native Christians of the SevenIslandsofBombay in the northern Konkan division. Though...
separate island, one of the SevenIslandsofBombay which were ceded by the Portuguese to England in 1661; it was linked up with the other islands in the...
site of the Goa state's capital at Panjim, and the SevenIslandsofBombay, on which lies Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra and the headquarters of the...
the southern islandof Mahim. The strategic value of the fort was enhanced in 1661 after the Portuguese ceded the sevenislandsofBombay that lay to the...
wars. The sevenislandsofBombay were presented to the English Crown in 1661, as part of the dowry of Catherine Braganza to Charles II of England, who...
Christians are subgroup of the Koli people, known as Bombay East Indians, the indigenous people of the SevenIslandsofBombay and the Bombay metro area, which...
शिवडी) is a small hamlet on the eastern shore of the Parel island, one of the original sevenislandsofBombay. Sewri has a fort that dates back to 1770....
separate island, one of the SevenIslandsofBombay. The Parel Relief or (Parel Shiva) is an important monolithic relief of the Hindu god Shiva in seven forms...
ruled from the capital in Old Goa. Bombay East Indians were formerly Portuguese citizens until the sevenislandsofBombay were taken over by the British...
Woman's Island as a part of it; with this the last two islandsof Colaba and Old Woman's Island (out of the SevenislandsofBombay), which were first taken...
reclamation projects to connect the SevenIslandsofBombay. This, along with modern apartments, led to availability of better housing, due to which chawls...
Gateway of India is an arch-monument completed in 1924 on the waterfront of Mumbai (Bombay), India. It was erected to commemorate the landing of George...
large number of trees and heritage buildings, such as the official residence of the Chairman of the Bombay Port Trust, the residence of the Municipal...
IIM Act, 2017. The list of experts includes Shri Ashish Kumar Chauhan, MD & CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange & Chancellor University of Allahabad, Prof. Pawan...
the help of either the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) or the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, to conduct the study. The cost of the study...
Fort to the south and Mahim Fort near the creek to defend the SevenIslandsofBombay against attacks by the Portuguese and the Marathas. The Bandra–Worli...
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