Simbor
Simbor is a small area of 0.91 square kilometers situated in the cove Simbor, 20 km east of Diu. It belonged to Portugal until 1961.
It consists of two strips of land on either side of a creek (River Vançoso) and a small island home of the Fort, Pani-Kota (fort of the Sea), or St. Anthony of Simbor, (Santo António de Simbor, in Portuguese). It was an ancient port of watery.
Bibliography
- PEREIRA, A.B. de Bragança, Etnografia da Índia Portuguesa (consulted in https://books.google.com/)
See also
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