Damão

     Damão, today Daman, was a fortified port on the east coast of the Golf of Cambay about a hundred miles north of Bombay. It was first entered by the Portuguese in 1531, and captured a second time in 1558. It remained in Portuguese hands until 1961 when it was annexed by India.

Diu 

    Diu or Dio is a seaport on the island of the same name. It was acquired from the Sultan of Gujarat by treaty in 1535. It became Indian territory in 1961.

Cochim 

     Pedro Alvarez Cabral gained control of Cochim or cochin for the Portuguese by treaty in 1500. In 1502 Vasco Da Gama built a trading post and a year later Alfonso de Albuquerque built a fort. The English took over in 1635, and the territory was ceded to India in 1961.