A reference encyclopedia article on the Portuguese Inquisition's tribunal at Goa, established 1560 and opening in 1561 under King John III of Portugal and Cardinal Henrique, with Aleixo Dias Falcao as its first inquisitor, targeting New Christians suspected of Judaizing, Goan Catholics suspected of crypto-Hindu practice, and Hindus, Muslims and non-Portuguese Catholic missionaries. Reports roughly 16,000 to 16,202 persons brought to trial between 1561 and 1774, historians' execution counts converging near 57 people burned at the stake in person and 64 more condemned in effigy after dying in custody, 71 recorded public autos-da-fe with the last held in February 1773, and 4,046 further sentences short of execution. Notes that most tribunal records were destroyed by Portuguese officials at the 1812 final abolition, and that scholarly assessment is contested between Black Legend-influenced popular accounts and historians arguing for more measured figures.
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Reliability TierReference-encyclopedia tier 3, drawing on named historians (Machado, Saraiva, Priolkar) for its trial and execution counts, and its own text names the Black Legend versus revisionist dispute over those counts rather than concealing it, which is why the entity's death-toll facts below are recorded as debated rather than attested. Citation
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