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- Vasai-Virar is a city in Maharashtra state in western India. It is located in Thane District, 50 km north of Mumbai. The city is located on the north bank of Vasai Creek, part of the estuary of the Ulhas River. Vasai-Virar is an agglomeration of several formerly separate towns, including Vasai, Virar, and the ancient city of Sopara. Sopara was known as 'SHURPARAK' in ancient time. Sopara was a big trading center and the harbour was in today's Village Gass. It was known as OPHIR and some of the trading which took place in the 3 rd century with middle east (now Israel) the wood (specially Teak Wood) supplied in middle east is used in the church of Nativity in Bethelehem. it's still there in that Church. (I have seen these Wood used for Roof in that church in my recent visit to Israel in 2007. Vasai-Virar has four stations Naigaon, Vasai Road, Nala Sopara, and Virar on the Mumbai suburban railway's Western Railway railway line. The town of Sopara Gass, was center of the Indian Ocean trade going in Roman times, but its harbour has since silted up. Trade shifted to Vasai, which traded in horses, fish, salt, timber, and quarried basalt and granite, and was a shipbuilding center. Vasai came under the control of the Sultans of Gujarat in the 15th century. The Portuguese attacked the city in 1528, and captured it in 1532. The city, known to the Portuguese as Baçaim, became the center of Portuguese India's Northern Province, which included a string of Portuguese settlements extending almost 100 km along the coast and in some places 30–50 km inland. Other settlements in the Northern Province included Daman, Mahim, Thane, Kalyan, Salsette, Bombaim, and Chaul. In the second half of 16th century the Portuguese enclosed the town in a new fortress wall with 10 bastions. The city reached the height of its prosperity at the end of the 17th century. During the 18th century, the city was eclipsed by nearby Bombay, which had been ceded to the British in 1661, and shortly thereafter became the headquarters of the British East India Company in India. The Marathas captured Kalyan in 1720, and in 1737 they captured Thane and Salsette Island from the Portuguese. The other Portuguese settlements in the northern province were captured in 1738-39, and in February 1739, the Maratha General Chimnaji Appa laid siege to Baçaim, which capitulated on 16 May 1739. The British captured Salsette and Baçaim, which they called Bassein, from the Marathas in 1774, at the start of the First Anglo-Maratha War. The Treaty of Bassein was concluded between the Marathas and the British East India Company on December 31, 1802, which left the British in possession of Bassein. The Great Indian Peninsular and the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway were built through Vasai-Virar in 1860, and regular rail service started in 1869. The first electric locomotives first started operating on the line in 1927. Four stations on the Mumbai Suburban Railway serve the town Naigaon, Vasai Road, Nala Sopara and Virar. The region has seen a building boom since the 1980s, including the expansion of branch plants and offices from Mumbai. The land development boom has resulted in the loss of much of the region's wetlands and forest cover. Communicable diseases are widespread here due to the open sewers and stagnated water everywhere. The remains of the old Bassein Fort is today a beautiful scenery for long walks. All About vasai
- Vasai-Virar (anomenat Baçaim pels portuguesos) va ser un antic territori de Portugal entre els anys 1535 i 1739. Està ubicat al Subcontinent indi, més concretament a l'Estat de Maharashtra, a l'oest de l'Índia. Es troba a 50 km al nord de Bombai i a 15 Km al sur d'Agashi.
- Vasai-Virar är en stad i sin linda i västra Indien, och tillhör distriktet Thane i delstaten Maharashtra. Delstatens myndigheter har beslutat att slå samman fyra tidigare städer med 53 omgivande byar och samhällen, som tillsammans bildar den kommunala enheten Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation. Ett meddelande om detta gick ut offentligt den 3 juli 2009. Den sammanlagda befolkningen för de enheter Vasai-Virar nu omfattar uppgick till cirka 700 000 invånare vid senaste folkräkningen, som genomfördes 2001. Man kommer även att utvärdera möjligheten att inkludera ytterligare elva byar, som tillsammans hade cirka 35 000 invånare 2001. Stadens myndigheter planeras att läggas i Virar, som är belägen cirka 6 mil norr om centrala Bombay. De före detta städerna som ingår i Vasai-Virar (med invånarantal 2001) är Nalasopara (184 538), Navghar-Manikpur (116 723), Vasai (49 337) och Virar (118 928). Därutöver ingår, förutom ett stort antal byar, ytterligare några urbana samhällen, som Gokhivare (20 075), Kopharad (5 276), Sandor (8 336) och Waliv (15 388). Vasai, även känd som Bassein, hette Baçaím under portugisiskt styre. Många protester har höjts över bildandet av staden, då många i de berörda byarna fruktar att de kommer att påverkas negativt av den ökande urbaniseringen i området som förväntas av sammanslagningen. De flesta av byarna motsatte sig anslutningen till Vasai-Virar vid ett möte den 21 september 2006, men sammanslagningen har genomförts trots detta.
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- Vasai-Virar is a city in Maharashtra state in western India. It is located in Thane District, 50 km north of Mumbai. The city is located on the north bank of Vasai Creek, part of the estuary of the Ulhas River. Vasai-Virar is an agglomeration of several formerly separate towns, including Vasai, Virar, and the ancient city of Sopara. Sopara was known as 'SHURPARAK' in ancient time. Sopara was a big trading center and the harbour was in today's Village Gass.
- Vasai-Virar (anomenat Baçaim pels portuguesos) va ser un antic territori de Portugal entre els anys 1535 i 1739. Està ubicat al Subcontinent indi, més concretament a l'Estat de Maharashtra, a l'oest de l'Índia. Es troba a 50 km al nord de Bombai i a 15 Km al sur d'Agashi.
- Vasai-Virar är en stad i sin linda i västra Indien, och tillhör distriktet Thane i delstaten Maharashtra. Delstatens myndigheter har beslutat att slå samman fyra tidigare städer med 53 omgivande byar och samhällen, som tillsammans bildar den kommunala enheten Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation. Ett meddelande om detta gick ut offentligt den 3 juli 2009.
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