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{{Infobox settlement<br />
| name = Agaçaim<br />
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| other_name = Agassaim<br />
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| settlement_type = Village<br />
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Agaçaim in [[Goa]]<br />
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| subdivision_name = India<br />
| subdivision_type1 = State<br />
| subdivision_name1 = [[Goa]]<br />
| subdivision_type2 = District<br />
| subdivision_name2 = [[North Goa]]<br />
| subdivision_type3 = Sub-district<br />
| subdivision_name3 = [[Ilhas de Goa]]<br />
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| postal_code = 403204<br />
| area_code = 0832<br />
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Aghanashini / '''Agaçaim''' (pronounced ''Aagshi'') or '''Agassaim''', is a village on the northern banks of the [[Zuari River]] in [[Ilhas]], [[Goa]], surrounded by [[Panjim]] to the north, [[Margão]] to the south, [[Vasco da Gama, Goa|Vasco da Gama]] to the west and [[Ponda, Goa|Ponda]] to the east, thus making it a main connection between [[North Goa]] and [[South Goa]] via the [[Zuari Bridge]]. Agaçaim is famous for its [[Goan chouriço]].<br />
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==History==<br />
Agaçaim was a bazaar/mercado/market or mercantile-cum-migrating Christian community on the fringes of the Indian Ocean and is attested by the discovery of stone crosses with Pahlavi (archaic Persian) inscription in several places along the west coast of India.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/?id=rN69iFj1PJoC&pg=PA6&dq=agassaim+near+gopakapattanam#v=onepage&q=agassaim%20near%20gopakapattanam&f=false | title=Maritime India: Trade, Religion and Polity in the Indian Ocean| isbn=9789380607016| last1=Malekandathil| first1=Pius| year=2010}}</ref> The 2001 discovery of a granite stone cross by Father Cosme Costa, sfx, has been dated to the seventh century with a Pahlavi inscription.<br />
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Agassaim near Agaçaim has played a significant role in the political scene of Goa, be it the ''Save Goa Campaign'' or the [[Konkani language agitation]] in 1986. During these events, 7 martyrs died for the [[Konkani language]].<br />
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