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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of western India in the Arabian Sea northwest of Mumbai. A Portuguese possession after 1535, Diu was invaded by India in 1961 and annexed the following year. It is now part of the union territory of Daman and Diu.
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Examples
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After all, the churches and bastions in Diu are ruins not because they represent an idea that failed but because they represent no idea at all, whereas India has been an idea since Gandhi’s Salt March in 1930.
India’s New Face 2009
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After all, the churches and bastions in Diu are ruins not because they represent an idea that failed but because they represent no idea at all, whereas India has been an idea since Gandhi’s Salt March in 1930.
India’s New Face 2009
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Nouember, after we had passed the coast of Zindi, is called Diu, which standeth in an Iland in the kingdome of Cambaia, and is the strongest towne that the Portugales haue in those partes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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"Diu," indicating the splendor of heaven or of day.
Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849
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"Union territories such as Diu and Daman, and the territory of the SEZs come under the central government."
Analysis 2010
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From Diu I hired a car and drove two hours westward along the coast to Somnath, site of the Hindu temple destroyed by Mahmud of Ghazni, as well as by other invaders, and rebuilt for the seventh time starting in 1947.
India’s New Face 2009
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From Diu I hired a car and drove two hours westward along the coast to Somnath, site of the Hindu temple destroyed by Mahmud of Ghazni, as well as by other invaders, and rebuilt for the seventh time starting in 1947.
India’s New Face 2009
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All of these other firangis the Portuguese Jesuits had fought hotly in skirmishes around the Empire, slowly acquiring the lands on the western coast—Bombay, Daman, Diu, and Goa, at the last of which was the seat of the Portuguese Viceroy to India.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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All of these other firangis the Portuguese Jesuits had fought hotly in skirmishes around the Empire, slowly acquiring the lands on the western coast—Bombay, Daman, Diu, and Goa, at the last of which was the seat of the Portuguese Viceroy to India.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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All of these other firangis the Portuguese Jesuits had fought hotly in skirmishes around the Empire, slowly acquiring the lands on the western coast—Bombay, Daman, Diu, and Goa, at the last of which was the seat of the Portuguese Viceroy to India.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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