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Showing posts with the label The Mormugao fort was located on the southern tip of the mouth of the Zuari river in Mormugao in the state of Goa on the west coast of India.

Mormugao Fort

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History This fortification was built on the order of the  Viceroy  of the  Portuguese State of India , Dom Francisco da Gama, Fourth  Count of Vidigueira , during his second government, for the defense of South Goa bar, which was then capital of the state of India The area was lost in 1737, during the invasion of the Marathas. In the nineteenth century