A view from a Portuguese atlas, 1630

Source: ebay, Mar. 2007

"Don Constantin de Bragance and the City of Daman," a copperplate engraving, Paris 1733

Source: ebay, Oct. 2001

"J. F. Lafitau: '1. Don Constantin de Bragance, 2. La Ville de Daman', pub. Paris 1733 (19.0x14.0 cm²). A  copperplate bird's-eye-view of the fortified city of Daman to the north of Bombay, India, established in 1558 by the Portuguese explorer Constantin de Bragance, whose ornate medallion portrait is shown above."

The Fort of St. Jerome, built 1614-27, in Daman

Source: http://www.indiamike.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/1142/sort/1/cat/all/page/13
(downloaded Feb. 2005)




Ruins of a Christian church, inside the fort

Source: http://www.indiamike.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/37214/
(downloaded Dec. 2009)

Another gateway of the old fort of St. Jerome

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chippuabraham/115960675/
(downloaded Feb. 2007)

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