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Daman and Diu is a union
territory in India. For over 450
years, these coastal enclaves on
the Arabian Sea coast were part
of Portuguese India, along with
Goa and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Goa, Daman, and Diu were
incorporated into the Republic
of India on December 19, 1961,
by military conquest; Portugal
did not recognize the Indian
annexation of these territories
until 1974. Goa, Daman, and Diu
were administered as part of a
single union territory until
1987, when Goa was granted
statehood, leaving Daman and Diu
as a separate union territory;
each enclave constitutes one of
the union territory's two
districts.
Gujarati and, to a much lesser
extent, Marathi are the official
and main languages. The use of
Portuguese goes on declining
because it is no longer official
nor taught at school, though a
number of elder people can still
understand it, some even
preferring it for discourse at
home.
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