![]() ![]() The capital of the viceroyalty was transferred from Cochin in the Malabar region to Goa in 1530. With the Portuguese conquest of Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate in 1510, Goa became the major anchorage for the Portuguese Armadas arriving in India. ![]() ![]() The first viceroy, Francisco de Almeida established his base of operations at Fort Manuel, after the Kingdom of Cochin negotiated to become a protectorate of Portugal in 1505. The capital of Portuguese India served as the governing centre of a string of military forts and trading posts scattered all over the Indian Ocean. The State of India ( Portuguese: Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India ( Estado Português da Índia, EPI) or simply Portuguese India ( Índia Portuguesa), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama, a subject of the Kingdom of Portugal. ![]()
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