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	Salsette Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The island of [Trombay (Turbhe)] lay to the southeast of Sashti.
		The island was ruled by a succession of Hindu kingdoms, the last of which to rule the islands were the Silharas.
		Parts of the island are hilly, although many of the hills were cut down and used to enlarge the island by filling in the shallows and to link the islands to one another.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salsette_Island (1072 words)

	SALSETTE - LoveToKnow Article on SALSETTE
		Salsette is a beautiful, well-wooded tract, its surface being diversified by hills and mountains, some of considerable height, while it is rich in rice fields.
		Salsette is crossed by two lines of railway, which have encouraged the building of villa residences by the wealthier merchants of Bombay.
		The island was taken from the Portuguese by the Mahrattas in 1739, and from them by the British in 1774; it was formally annexed to the East India Companys dominions in 1782 by the treaty of Salbai.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SALSETTE.htm (201 words)

	Salsette Island: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An island is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger than a rock, that is completely surrounded by water....
		The coast of the island is inundated by numerous saline creeks.
		Minicoy island is the largest and the southern-most island of the laccadive archipelago north of the maldives....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/salsette_island.htm (1727 words)

	infofx.info - Salsette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The island of Trombay lay to the southeast of Salsette.
		Salsette was part of the northern province of Portuguese India, which was governed from Baçaím (present-day Vasai) on the north shore of Vasai Creek.
		On the Indian Ocean, it is adjacent to the island nations of the Maldives on the southwest, Sri Lanka on the south, and Indonesia on the southeast.
	infofx.info /2280915 (8718 words)

	Bombay
		The Archdiocese of Bombay comprises the Island of Bombay with several outlying churches in the neighbouring Island of Salsette, and a large portion of the Bombay Presidency stretching northwards from the river Nerbudda as far as Quetta, including the districts of Gujerat (Broach, Baroda, Ahmedabad), Kathiawar, Cutch, Sind and a portion of Beluchistan.
		The archdiocese is served by 50 fathers, 19 scholastics, and 16 lay brothers of the German province of the Society of Jesus, and 19 native secular priests, attending 24 churches and 25 chapels, besides Sisters of the Orders of Jesus and Mary and the Daughters of the Cross engaged in education and charitable work.
		The Island of Salsette and the coast country as far as the Nerbudda were placed under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Damaun who also received personal jurisdiction in Bombay Island over all who came from Goa, or from any other district under the Portuguese ecclesiastical regime.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/b/bombay.html (1083 words)

	Hobson Jobson Dictionary
		The island of Bombay is indeed naturally a kind of pendant to the island of Salsette, and during the Portuguese occupation it was so in every sense.
		Salsette was claimed as part of the Bombay dotation of Queen Catherine, but refused by the Portuguese.
		Salsette is also the name of the three provinces of the Goa territory which constituted the VelhasConquistas or Old Conquests.
	dsal.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.2:1:65.hobson (956 words)

	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		by reclamation projects that combined seven basaltic islets and is a peninsula of the larger Salsette Island to the north.
		Salsette Island itself is connected to the mainland by causeways and railroad embankments.
		The Victorian-style India Gate near the waterfront commemorates a 1911 visit by King George V. On Salsette Island are Buddhist caves, and the nearby small island of Elephanta is noted for its hewn-stone temples.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:Bombay (492 words)

	Salsette Island: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Salsette Island is a large island (A land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
		The island is mostly composed of fl basalt (The commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark gray fine-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of calcium-rich plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene)
		Minicoy Island (Minicoy island is the largest and the southern-most island of the laccadive archipelago north of the maldives....)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/salsette_island (2091 words)

	Mumbai Chronical @ IntAdopt.com (International Adoption) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mumbai is located on Salsette Island, off the west coast of Maharashtra.
		In 1534, the Portuguese appropriated the islands from Bahadur Shah of Gujarat.
		The eastern seaboard of Salsette Island is covered with large mangrove swamps, rich in biodiversity.
	www.intadopt.com /encyclopedia/Mumbai (3326 words)

	Mumbai Harbour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The historical island of Elephanta is one of the six islands that lie in the harbour.
		Jawaharlal Nehru Port and Navi Mumbai (New Bombay) lie to the east on the mainland, and the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) lies to the west on Salsette Island.
		Mangrove swamps line much of the northwestern and eastern shores of the harbour, and provide a rich habitat for wildlife, including thousands of migrating birds such as flamingoes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mumbai_Harbour (194 words)

	Chapter SALIGRAM <i>to</i> SALSETTE of S by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary
		Salsette is also the name of the three provinces of the Goa territory which constituted the Velhas Conquistas or Old Conquests.
		the island of Goa and minor islands divided by rivers and creeks), (2) Bardez on the northern mainland, and (3) Salsette on the southern mainland.
		The name probably had the like origin to that of the Island Salsette; a parallel to which was found in the old name of the Island of Goa, Tiçoari, meaning (Mahr.) Tis-wadi, “30 hamlets.” [See BARGANY.]
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/260/1286/20206/2.html (635 words)

	Mumbai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These islands, were in turn leased to the British East India Company in 1668 for a sum of £10 per annum.
		From 1817 onwards, the city was reshaped with large civil engineering projects aimed at merging all the islands in the archipelago into a single amalgamated mass.
		Mumbai is located on Salsette Island, which lies at the mouth of Ulhas River off the western coast of India, in the coastal region known as the Konkan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bombay (4305 words)

	How we got the name
		The island of Bombay (Lat-18'58"N, Long-72'40"E) length 7 miles, given to Charles II by Portuguese with his queen in 1602.
		Charles, in 1668, granted the island to the "East India Co.", under a rent of ten pounds in gold, payable annually at the Custom-House at London.
		[Salsette was gallantly defended by an old man of ninety two who fought like a mad man, being summoned to surrender, answered "I was not sent for that purpose".
	art-venture.com /familytree/stories.htm (649 words)

	Mumbai India - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Immediately to the north of Bombay Island is Salsette Island.
		When Salsette Island was made part of Mumbai, residential, industrial, and administrative areas developed there as well.
		To the west are the Elephanta cave temples dating from the 8th century on a small island off the Mumbai Harbor.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /mumbai_india.htm (2047 words)

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		Bombay (city, India), city in western India, capital of Maharashtra State, a port on the Arabian Sea, on the low-lying Bombay, Trombay, and Salsette islands.
		To the north on Salsette Island are industrial districts, suburbs, and shantytowns.
		That the area was settled in ancient times is attested to by the 2nd- to 9th-century carvings of Kanheri Caves on Salsette Island and the 7th-century temples on nearby Elephanta Island.
	www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu /~kedla/bombay.htm (546 words)

	Vasai History
		In Salsette island, the Portuguese built 9 churches: Nirmal (1557), Remedi (1557), Sandor (1566), Agashi (1568), Nandakhal (1573), Papdi (1574), Pali (1595), Manickpur (1606), Merces (1606).
		The importance of Bassein was reduced by transfer of neighboring Bombay island to the British in 1665 (It was a wedding dowry from Catherine Braganza of Portugal to Charles the Second of England).
		In November 1738, Marathas led by Chimaji Appa, captured the fort of Dahanu and on 20 January 1739, Mahim capitulated, the loss of Mahim, was speedily followed by the capture of the forts of Quelme -(Kelve/Mahim), Sirgão, Tarapur, and Asserim on 13 February 1739.
	www.geocities.com /unitedit/vasai_hist.htm (2431 words)

	Indian Odysseys.com - Mumbai History Hindu Kingdoms And Muslim Sultanat
		In the 2nd century BC the nearby island of Salsette was occupied by the Buddhist Satvahanas who began construction of Kanheri Caves.
		The islands were ruled by a succession of Hindu dynasties, including the Chalukyas who swept down from their Deccan strong hold to establish a capital on Gharapuri(now known as Elephanta Island) around the 6th century AD.
		The islands were invaded by Muslims in the 14th century and passed between the Sultans of Gujarat, Delhi and the Deccan as their influence in the region waxed and waned.
	www.indianodysseys.com /mh/mumbai/mumhis_hindu.asp (329 words)

	History - Archdiocese of Bombay
		The islands of Bassein, Salsette, Bombay and Karanja were ceded to the Portuguese by the Bahadur of Gujarat, on board the galleon "St Mathew," anchored in the harbour of Bassein, on December 23, 1534.
		Missionary acitivity in Bassein, Salsette and Bombay commenced from 1534 onwards.
		This was achieved by the Marriage Treaty of 1661 between Charles the II of England and the Infanta of Portugal, whereby Bombay island was ceded to the British as part of the Marriage dowry.
	www.archbom.org /history.htm (3877 words)

	CareerMosaicIndia.com - CityMosaic/ Mumbai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The main large chunk is called Salsette island (Satsati, or thousand villages) which extends from Bandra to Vasai creek.
		From Mahim to the southernmost tip of Mumbai several little rocky islands were gradually connected by the British and the low lying areas filled up with soil.
		Gharapuri, the Elephanta island was a port and an important centre of the Chalukyas of Badami and their successors, of whom the Silaharas were prominent.
	www.careermosaicindia.com /JS/CRC/city/mum/m_hist.htm (391 words)

	Indian Odysseys.com - Mumbai Place Physiography Page One
		Mumbai is an island city in the western coast of India.
		The island city of Mumbai stretches 20km from the southern most tip of Colaba to Mahim Creek in the north, and an average 5km from the Arabian Sea shore to the edge of Mumbai Harbour.
		These islands were then amalgamated to the much larger island of Salsette to the north in the l9th century.
	www.indianodysseys.com /mh/mumbai/mump_phys.asp (389 words)

	Bombay Province (bombay province resources) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In 1626 the Dutch and British made an unsuccessful attempt to gain possession of the island of Bombay in the coastal Konkan region from Portugal, and in 1653 proposals were suggested for its purchase from the Portuguese.
		In 1803 the Bombay presidency included only Salsette, the islands of the harbour (since 1774), Surat and Bankot (since 1756); but between this date and 1827 the framework of the presidency took its present shape.
		- September 5 - The island of Malta, that was occupied by the French, is conquered by British troops.
	1952.groundhog.day.tropical.storm.en.xanax-buy.be /en/Bombay+Province (10417 words)

	THANA - LoveToKnow Article on THANA
		The town is on the west of the Salsette creek or Thana river, just where the Great Indian Peninsula railway crosses to the mainland, 21 m.
		At Kurla, in Salsette island, there are cotton mills and rice mills.
		Since then the operations to put down the Koli robbers, which extended over several years, have been the only cause of serious trouble.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TH/THANA.htm (363 words)

	A ILHA DOS AMORES
		The description of the island, given in the above transcribed octaves, fits squarely the Angediva of olden times and corresponds to the succint description given by Gama himself when he referred to the island as terra alta, muito graciosa e de bons ares (a high land, very charming and with good climate).
		At the time of Saldanha’s writing (1898) the island had a church and was inhabited by 49 persons but, according to A. Lopes Mendes, the 1881 census had registered one “freguesia”, one village and 34 families with 93 individuals of both sexes.
		By 1856 its population was devastated by a great epidemic which had its origin in the localisation of the cemetery near a fountain which supplied water to the population.
	www.colaco.net /1/JdAN-IsleOfLove.htm (1294 words)

	Bandra as it was centuries ago
		In 1534, King Bahadur Shah of Gujarat, ceded Vasai, Salsette and the adjacent areas to the Portuguese.
		Bandra was (and is) situated on the south-west extremity of the island of Salsette; in fact Bandra itself was called an island.
		The island of Salsette on which Bandra was located was often referred to as a granary.
	www.goldenbandra.com /backpage.htm (1086 words)

	Mumbai Plan - Introduction
		Geographically speaking, Greater Mumbai is an island outside the mainland of Konkan in Maharashtra separated from the mainland by the narrow Thane Creek and a somewhat wider Harbour Bay.
		The central portions of Salsette island comprise a range of hills trending north-south merging into the tidal swamps towards the east, while towards the west these hills pass into wide plains with a few isolated hillocks.
		This island is separated from Mumbai and Salsette by intensive tidal flats with a series of low hills extending north-south in the centre.
	www.karmayog.com /floods/mumbaiplan.htm (9177 words)

	Department of Relief and Rehabilitation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Geographically speaking, Greater Mumbai is an island outside the mainland of Kokan in Maharashtra separated from the mainland by the narrow Thane Creek and a somewhat wider Harbour Bay.
		The basalts are intersected by sills and dykes of olivine dolelite, tachylyte etc. The dykes have a general north - south trend and appear to be limited to the eastern margin of the main ridge from west of Mulund, and the eastern banks of the Vihar lake to Vikhroli.
		Being an island city, the coastal wards (facing the Arabian Sea) are prone to gusty winds and cyclonic impacts.
	mdmu.maharashtra.gov.in /pages/Mumbai/mumbaiplanShow.php (9753 words)

	Bombay (bombay info) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Shiv Sena Mumbai is located on Salsette Island which lies at the mouth of Ulhas River off the western coast of India in the coastal region known as the Konkan.
		The Andaman and Nicobar Islands was established as a union territory, ruled by a Lieutenant Governor appointed by the central Indian government.
		Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Tripura, Pondichery, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the Laccadive, Mincoy, and Amandivi Islands became union territories.
	6a4181483ce58cbc44a36bf1ad2dea50.zh.xanax-prescription.be /en/Bombay (10258 words)

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