Bardez

Bardez
Sub-District

Location of Bardez in North Goa district in Goa
Coordinates: 15°35′22″N 73°49′06″E / 15.589407°N 73.818305°E / 15.589407; 73.818305Coordinates: 15°35′22″N 73°49′06″E / 15.589407°N 73.818305°E / 15.589407; 73.818305
Country  India
State Goa
District North Goa district
Headquarters Mapusa
Settlements 1 City
15 Towns
28 Villages
Government
 • Tehsildar na
 • Lok Sabha constituency na
 • MLA na
Population (2011)
 • Sub-District 237,440
 • Urban 68.69%
Demographics
 • Literacy rate na
 • Sex ratio 8/9 na
Rain na

Bardez is the name of a region and taluka in North Goa. The name is credited to the Brahmin immigrants who migrated to the Konkan via Magadha in Gangetic India from Āryāvarta, in the north-western part of the Indian sub-continent. Bardez or more properly Bara (twelve) desh (country) means "twelve countries" (or lands). The form "country" probably refers to clan territorial limits, or to the Brahmin comunidades, of which the twelve, in no particular order, are Aldona, Moira, Olaulim, Nachinola, Siolim, Anjuna, Candolim, Serula, Saligao, Sangolda, Assagao and Pomburpa

Bardez is delimited on the north by the Chapora River, on the south by the Mandovi River, on the east by the Mapusa River which originates in Bardez itself, near the capital city of Mapusa, and on the west by the Arabian Sea.

A native of Bardez is called a Bardezcar, in the native Konkani language.

Bardez is the site of the legislature of Goa, in the southern parish village of Penha de França (Britona), in Serula. Other famous sites are the fort of Aguada, the beaches of Candolim, Sinquerim, Calangute, Baga, Anjuna and Vagator villages, the hill-top monastery and boarding-school of Monte Guirim which was restored by Padre Luna after Pombal's devastation, the village communities of Salvador do Mundo, Penha da Franca, Siolim, Moira, Porvorim, Colvale, Saligao and Sangolda, to name but the most prominent.

The Institute of Hotel Management, Goa and St. Xavier's College are located in Bardez.

The Comunidade of Anjuna was famous as a hippie settlement. Among Goan Catholics, it is famous as the birthplace of Venerable Fr. Agnelo, one of the two most prominent Goan saints, the other being Saint Joseph Vaz, the "Apostle of Sri Lanka".

List of towns and villages

List of towns in Bardez taluk:[1]

List of villages in Bardez taluk:

References

  1. ↑ "Villages & Towns in Bardez Taluka of North Goa, Goa". Census 2011. Government of India.


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