[4] Historically, the sixty-six settlements south of the Zuari River formed the original Salcette territory.

[5] Salcete forms a part of the bigger Konkan region that stretches along the western shoreline of peninsular India.

[13] King Viramarmadeva of the Kadamba dynasty issued a copper-plate inscription in 1049 CE concerning a grant of a piece of land called Tudukapura in Kudtarika agrahara of Chhat sathi desha.

[14] The original sixty-six settlements of Salcette are as follows:[15] Salcete taluka comprises nine comunidades: Benaulim, Betalbatim, Colva, Curtorim, Loutolim, Margao, Nuvem, Raia, and Verna.

[18] Founded as they seem to be by immigrant Brahmins somewhere between the 4th and the 12th centuries of the present era ... Salcete is the Portuguese corruption of Sāsaṣṭi, the sixty-six settlements which can also be traced in modern times.