And despite annually dispatched Portuguese India Armadas suffering losses in ships and men of up to 35 percent, it remained hugely profitable throughout the 16th century.

More than 400 years after Goa was colonized by the Portuguese, India finally took over Goa from Portugal after an Indian boat was shot by the Portuguese and an Indian fisher was killed. This set ...

Leaving India in January, armadas return to Iberia in summer. This circuit is the carreira da Índia or the “India Run”. Portuguese envoy Vasco da Gama, just 20 years earlier in 1498, has ...

But consider this: A 16th-century Portuguese trading vessel, carrying a fortune in gold and ivory and bound for a famed spice port on the coast of India, is blown far off course by a fierce storm ...

Providence's India Street, which runs along historic India Point Park in the Fox Point neighborhood of Providence, has been renamed “Portugal Parkway.” The renaming ceremony on June 10 ...

The Bengali word “harmad” – with a range of meanings from “pirate” to “goon” – comes from the Portuguese armadas that were feared in medieval Bengal for piracy and slave trading.

Police have removed a Hindu idol installed in front of a church in India's Goa state, a former Portuguese colony, where a government panel is active to renovate Hindu temples destroyed during the ...