- Ribandar
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native_name = Reis Magos | type = town | latd = 15.50| longd = 73.85
state_name = Goa
district = North Goa
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footnotes =Ribandar is an unincorporated town in
Goa , India, in the district (conselho) ofIlhas orTiswaddi , lying in between the cities ofPangim (orNova Goa ) andOld Goa .Etymology
The name Ribandar originates from "Rayachem Bandar" meaning the wharves, docks or
portage of the "Rayas" or Kings. It is unclear which kings are meant here.Geography
Ribandar is located at coord|15.50|N|73.85|E|. [ [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/33/Ribandar.html Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Ribandar] ] It has an average elevation of 3
metre s (10 feet).It is separated from
Pangim by theRio de Ourem , "River of Gold", whose junction with theMandovi here forms a large, wide marshyestuary .This estuary in traversed by an old
causeway built in 1633 under the auspices of one of the Viceroys of Portuguese India, the Count of Linhares, after whom it is called thePonte de Linhares . This causeway is the sole direct land access Ribandar has with Pangim.History
Goa was ruled by a break-away branch of the Kadamba dynasty belonging to native Kannadiga language speakers of Karnataka. It was conquered by Sultan Allauddin Khilji's General Mahmud Ghawan for the Delhi Sultanate, became part of the breakaway Bahamani Sultanate, conquered by Vijayanagar, Yusuf Adil Shah I of the Sultanate of Bijapur before being conquered by Affonso de Albuquerque in 1510.
Presently, Ribandar, although far separated geographically from Pangim by the Rio de Ourem, has been made a part of the City Corporation of Pangim.
Historical places of Ribander
A Igreja da Nossa Senhora da Ajuda or "The Church of Our Lady of Help" (i.e., "Auxiliatrix Christianorum" or "Perpetual Succor") was built on the banks of the Mandovi river in 1565. The ship bringing the body of
St. Francis Xavier fromMalacca was welcomed with canon salute at this church on the night of 14th March,1554 . The church has a peculiar architectural style, being built like a ship.The
Santa Casa da Misericórdia or "The Holy House of Charity", also calledThe Royal Portuguese Hospital : Today it houses a management school, theGoa Institute of Management . It is a heritage structure and has been left unchanged despite the pressures of housing a college. Unconfirmed sources claim that this Hospital is Asia's first one.Fr. Alvares / Bishop Mar Julious
Ribandar is associated with the later life of Fr.
Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares (1837-1923), the Goan Catholic priest who defected toMonophysitism or theJacobite Orthodox Church based inKerala or theMalabar Coast , and was made by it a bishop asMar Julious I , "Archbishop-Metropolitan for the Archdiocese of Ceylon, Goa and the whole of India." Alvarez consecratedJoseph René Vilatte (1854-1929) and thus is the person from whom mostOld Catholic bishops in the West claimapostolic succession . Fr. Alvares or Bishop Mar Julious died and is buried here, in a Jacobite church, which is still maintained by Jacobite priests from Kerala.See Terence Boyle's page on [http://www.tboyle.net/Catholicism/Vilatte.html Vilatte]
Education
Ribandar also has the famous
Goa Institute of Management which is located on the banks on Mandovi river.References
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