🗺 State & UT profiles

Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu

Kingdoms and empires18
Events on the map1

🗺 Geography

⛰ Land and rivers

Mountains & hills: The Western Ghats (part of the state)

Physical India →

⚠ Natural hazards

NCERT’s hazard maps do not name this state as a whole.

Natural hazards →

🌿 Protected areas and natural heritage

None of the reserves and sites on our Climate & life page is in this state.

Climate & life → · Water & protected areas →

🏭 Resources and economy

NCERT does not name this state for a crop, mineral, industry or major port.

Resources & economy →

📜 History

👑 Who held this land

Kingdoms, empires and cultures whose territory, as drawn on our map, covered a large part of today’s Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, or that were based here. Extents are approximate, so treat this as a guide to who held the region — not as exact borders.

Chalcolithic Cultures c. 3,000–700 BCE
Jorwe Culture c. 1,500–900 BCE
Mauryan Empire c. 321–185 BCE
Satavahana Empire c. 200 BCE – c. 225 CE
Western Kshatrapas c. 35 CE – c. 415 CE
Maitraka Dynasty c. 475 CE – c. 776 CE
Chalukyas of Badami c. 543 CE – c. 753 CE
Rashtrakuta Empire c. 753 CE – c. 982 CE
Seuna (Yadava) Dynasty c. 1187 – 1317
Delhi Sultanate 1206 – 1526
Bahmani Sultanate 1347 – 1527
Gujarat Sultanate 1407 – 1573
Mughal Empire 1526 – 1857
Portuguese Diu 1535 – 1961 · based here
Portuguese Daman 1559 – 1961 · based here
Maratha Empire 1674 – 1818
3,000 BCE1950

📅 Events in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu

🎨 People and culture

🎨 Art & culture

Nothing listed for this state on this page yet.

Art & culture →

Geography: features are those on our Geography map that cover a good part of the state (or that NCERT places in it); hazards, reserves, crops, minerals, industries and ports are where NCERT, UNESCO or the Ramsar list name or place them. Census figures are for 2011, as NCERT prints them.

How this is made: nothing here is new — it is YugMap’s own map data sorted by today’s states. A kingdom is listed if its territory on our map covered at least 40% of the state at some point, or if its centre or capital lies here; events and places are listed where their map point falls inside the state. State outlines follow India’s official map.