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Q. With reference to the entry of European powers into India, which one of the following statements is not correct?
Answer: The Portuguese captured Goa in 1499
Notes: The Portuguese conquest of Goa occurred when the governor of Portuguese India Afonso de Albuquerque captured the city in 1510. Goa was not among the cities Albuquerque had received orders to conquer: he had only been ordered by the Portuguese king to capture Hormuz, Aden and Malacca.

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