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{{Infobox settlement
|name = Tiswadi
|native_name = ''Ilhas'' (''Ilhas de Goa'')
|settlement_type = [[Tehsil|Sub-District]]
|image_map = Tiswadi_taluka_in_North_Goa_district.png
|map_caption = Location of Ilhas in [[North Goa district|North Goa]], [[Goa]]
|coordinates = {{coord|15.498598|N|73.829341|E|region:IN|display=inline,title}}
|subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
|subdivision_name = {{IND}}
|subdivision_type1 = [[States and union territories of India|State]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[Administrative divisions of India|District]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[Goa]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[North Goa district|North Goa]]
|seat_type = Headquarters
|seat = [[Panjim]]
|parts_type = Settlements
|parts_style = para
|p1 = 1 City <br/> 9 Towns <br/> 22 Villages
|leader_title = [[Tehsildar]]
|leader_name = na
|leader_title1 = [[Lok Sabha|Lok Sabha constituency]]
|leader_name1 = na
|area_total_km2 =
|population_total = 1,67,197
|population_as_of = 2011
|population_footnotes =
|population_density_km2 = auto
|population_urban = 83%
|demographics_type1 = Demographics
|demographics1_title1 = [[Literacy in India|Literacy rate]]
|blank_name_sec1 = Rain
|blank_info_sec1 = na
|website =
|footnotes =
|leader_title2 = [[Vidhan Sabha|Assembly constituency]]
|leader_name2 = na
|leader_title3 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]
|leader_name3 = na
|demographics1_info1 = na
|demographics1_title2 = Sex ratio
|demographics1_info2 = na
| registration_plate = [[List of RTO districts in India#Goa|GA]]-07
}}

'''Tiswadi''' or '''[[Ilhas de Goa]]''' is a [[Taluka|Sub-District]] in [[North Goa]] in the state of [[Goa]], [[Konkan region]], India, on which the state capital [[Panjim]] is situated, previously it was the territorial capital of both [[Goa and Damaon|Goa and Daman]].

The word ''Tiswadi'' itself, originated in the late 1970s and it referred to thirty settlements of [[Goud Saraswat Brahmin]]s who settled when they migrated to Goa. The descendants of these settlers now form the native [[Roman Catholic Brahmin|Bammon community]].

It is geographically made up of several river islands within the [[Mandovi River]] forming its northern boundary, the [[Cumbarjua Canal]] making its eastern border and the [[Zuari River]] making up its southern border.

As the native name suggests, the sub-district of ''Ilhas de Goa'' (Islands of Goa) includes the smaller islands of:
* [[Goa (Island)|Goa]],
* [[Chorão (Island)|Chorão]],
* [[Divar]],
* [[St Estevam]],
* [[Cumbarjua]],
* [[Vanxim]] and
* Several other small [[mangrove]] islands and [[sand banks]].
The present capital - [[Panjim]] as well the former capital - [[Old Goa|The City of Goa]], both lie on the [[Goa (Island)|largest island]].

==History==
Tiswadi along with the rest of Goa regularly exchanged hands between the Muslim [[Bahmani Sultanate|Bhahmani Sultanate]] and the Hindu [[Vijayanagara Empire]] of [[South India]] prior to the 14th Century. By the 15th century the [[Adil Shahi dynasty|Bijapur Sultanate]] under the Adil Shahi dynasty conquered Goa and it came under Muslim rule. The [[Old Goa|City of Goa]] was the regional capital of the Sultanates as well as a hub for the [[Hajj|Hajj pilgrimage]]. Numerous temples were demolished under the rule of the sultanates. The Adil Shahi dynasty was defeated by a [[Portuguese conquest of Goa|Portuguese-Vijayanagar alliance]], and Ilhas de Goa was conquered under [[Afonso de Albuquerque]] in 1510. By the time Tiswadi was relived from Muslim rule, Hindus formed a minority in the region, and the Portuguese started conversion efforts against the Muslim majority. The populace was made to accept Christianity or leave the Islands. There was a mass exodus of natives who left the Islands, for the safer havens of [[Ponda, Goa|Ponda]] and the [[Kanara|Canara]], [[Malabar Coast]], [[Chandgad]] and [[Joida]].

The first temple to be built in [[Panaji|Panjim]] was in the mid 1700s, when the Portuguese authorities granted permission to the Hindus to build their place of worship.

The evangelization of Tiswadi was spearheaded by the [[Dominican Order|Dominicans]], who were assigned 15 villages, and the [[Jesuits]], who were assigned the remaining part along with the smaller islands of [[Chorão (Island)|Chorão]] and [[Divar]], by the Portuguese authorities. In 1552, the island of Chorão had a population of 300 Christians out of 3,000 and, by this time, also had a small church which was visited by a Jesuit from St. Paul's every Sunday. By the end of 1559, over 1,200 had accepted [[baptism]]. The following year, the first bishop from the [[Jesuit]] order, Dom João Nunes de Barreto, set up residence in Chorão, which eventually became a Noviciate. Most of Chorão's population converted en masse to Roman Catholicism in mid-1560.<ref name="Machado">''Sarasvati's Children: A History of the Mangalorean Christians'', Alan Machado Prabhu, I.J.A. Publications, 1999, pp. 100 – 101</ref>

By January 1563, the Jesuit provincial claimed that Ilhas de Goa had been completely Christianized, with a population of 70,000, the great majority of which had converted in the last six years, corresponding to the terms of Viceroys [[Francisco Barreto]] and [[Constantino of Braganza]], whose {{frac|2|1|2}}-year term saw between 25,000 and 30,000 conversions.<ref name="Machado" />

==Highlights==
[[Panaji|Panjim]], [[Velha Goa]] and its monuments, [[Divar]], [[Chorão (Island)|Chorão]]

== Settlements ==

=== Cities ===
{|class="wikitable"
!#
!City
!State
!Population
|-
|1
|Panjim Municipal Corporation
|Goa
|40000
|}

=== Towns ===
{|class="wikitable"
!#
!Town
!State
!Population
|-
|1
|[[Chimbel]] Census Town
|Goa
|15,289
|-
|2
|[[Calapor]] or [[Santa Cruz, Goa]] Census Town
|Goa
|14,077
|-
|3
|Murda, Census Town
|Goa
|7,517
|-
|4
|[[Bambolim]] Census Town
|Goa
|6,885
|-
|5
|[[Corlim]] Census Town
|Goa
|6,568
|-
|6
|[[Mercurim]] Census Town
|Goa
|4,970
|-
|7
|[[Cumbarjua]] Census Town
|Goa
|4,917
|-
|8
|[[Goa Velha]] Census Town
|Goa
|4,322
|-
|9
|Jua Census Town
|Goa
|4,134
|-
|10
|[[Old Goa]] (Velha Goa) Census Town
|Goa
|2,550
|-
|11
|[[Ribandar]] Census Town
|Goa
|2,450
|-
|12
|[[Tiswadi Town|Tiswadi]] Census Town
|Goa
|2,300
|}

=== Villages ===
{|class="wikitable"
!#
!Villages
!Administrative Division
!Population
|-
|1
|Ambarim
|Tiswadi
|93
|-
|2
|Azossim
|Tiswadi
|1,142
|-
|3
|Bainguinim
|Tiswadi
|1,501
|-
|4
|Batim
|Tiswadi
|1,489
|-
|5
|Capão
|Tiswadi
|135
|-
|6
|Caraim
|Tiswadi
|202
|-
|7
|Carambolim
|Tiswadi
|5,179
|-
|8
|Chorão
|Tiswadi
|5,268
|-
|9
|Curca
|Tiswadi
|2,518
|-
|10
|Ella
|Tiswadi
|5,372
|-
|11
|Gancim
|Tiswadi
|519
|-
|12
|Gandaulim
|Tiswadi
|301
|-
|13
|Goalim Moula
|Tiswadi
|441
|-
|14
|Goltim
|Tiswadi
|1,634
|-
|15
|Malar
|Tiswadi
|1,630
|-
|16
|Mandur
|Tiswadi
|3,113
|-
|17
|Naroa
|Tiswadi
|487
|-
|18
|Navelim
|Tiswadi
|1,133
|-
|19
|Neura-O-Grande
|Tiswadi
|1,440
|-
|20
|Neura-O-Pequeno
|Tiswadi
|563
|-
|21
|[[Siridao|Siridão]]
|Tiswadi
|2,417<ref name="Census 2011 India">{{cite web | title=Siridao Village Population - Tiswadi - North Goa, Goa | website=Census 2011 India | date=May 29, 1980 | url=http://www.census2011.co.in/data/village/626724-siridao-goa.html | access-date=November 17, 2016}}</ref>
|-
|22
|Talaulim
|Tiswadi
|972
|}

==See also==
*[[Konkani people]]
*[[History of Goa]]
*[[Salcette]]
*[[Bardez]]
*[[Goan Catholics]]

==References==
{{commons category}}
{{reflist}}

{{Goa Topics}}

[[Category:Islands of the Indian Ocean]]
[[Category:Islands of Goa]]
[[Category:Taluks of Goa]]
[[Category:Geography of North Goa district]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in North Goa district]]

Tiswadi - Revision history

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