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Hello Jorge, While many others are struggling to get their facts right and sell it on the internet it appears it is ONLY YOU who has the facts like I always believed it to be so. I am confident that many others will also think you have done a great job in setting the record straight. Kudos to you. Ivor (Samora) -----Original Message----- From: Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Goanet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:03 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] All Goans are Indians or GOVAPURIANS? >**************************************** >For more information/links, see http://goanet.netfirms.com >**************************************** > >Portugal did not change "Govapuri" to "Goa". "Govapuri" is not the ancestral >or historical name of "Goa" but of the place that was the capital city of >the Kadambas' Goa and is now known as "Goa Velha". In Goa Velha there is a >plaque that states the latter fact. And before the colonisation there was no >nation called "India". > >Jorge > >----- Original Message ----- >From: edgar furtado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:10 PM >Subject: Re: [Goanet] All Goans are Indians or GOVAPURIANS? > > >> >> I am in agreement with Santosh. >> >> We are Indians before we became colonialized. >> >> Goa's ancestral or historic name was GOVAPURI. >> >> Before the Portuguese decended on Goa, they knew they >> were getting into GOVAPURI and decided to change an >> ugly name to GOA. >> >> Tracing back our historical anecdotes "GOA" one would >> be surprised to hear that "GOVAPURI" was what we >> inherited from the Kadambas, Chalukyas, and Hoshyara >> dynasties that ruled GOVAPURI during early >> civilizations or when we were all DRAVIDIANS. >> >> Does this all make us less INDIANS? >> >> I am proud to be called an INDIAN in North America? >> We are the best technocrats the world can provide to >> the Western World. >> >> EF >> Boston >> > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Goanet mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.goanet.org/mailman/listinfo/goanet _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goanet.org/mailman/listinfo/goanet
