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someone describe portuguese​

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Portuguese

The Portuguese was the first to establish their political power along the west coast of India. They established their settlements in the coastal areas of Cochin, Calicut, Daman and Diu. They controlled their commercial and political power there for nearly four and a half century. By the 17th century, their empire began to decline and they could no longer retain their monopoly of trade with India due to various causes - Portugal was a small European country and did not have abundant resources and manpower to look after this far-off trade, so the other more powerful European countries displaced them.