Timoji
15/16th-century Indian privateer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Timoji (also Timoja or Timmayya)[1] was a privateer who served the Vijayanagara Empire and the Portuguese Empire, in the first decade of the 16th century. He claimed to have been born in Old Goa and escaped the city in 1496, during the conquest by the Adil Shahi dynasty of Bijapore. After his support in the 1510 Portuguese conquest of Goa, he was appointed aguazil of the city, for a short time.