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Francisco Monteiro, CHRONOLOGY OF TERRORIST ACTIVITY UNLEASHED BY THE INDIAN UNION AGAINST THE TERRITORIES OF GOA, DAMÃO AND DIU 存档副本. [2015-05-08]. （原始内容存档于2015-09-23）.
Goa was first recognized as equal to the metropolis in the Royal Charter of 1518, and affirmed in subsequent legislation. The term 'province' was first used in 1576, and the term 'overseas provinces' used in virtually all legislation and constitutions thereafter, e.g. Art.1-3 & Art. 162-64 of 1822 Constitution online （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, 1826 constitution online （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, Art. I & Title X of the constitution of 1838 online （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, Title V of the Republican constitution of 1911 online （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） and the 1932 Constitution of the Estado Novo.
存档副本. [2012-03-14]. （原始内容存档于2012-02-14）. Lambert Mascarenhas, "Goa's Freedom Movement," excerpted from Henry Scholberg, Archana Ashok Kakodkar and Carmo Azevedo, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India New Delhi, Promilla (1982)
