"Bardez (Konkani: \u092C\u093E\u0930\u094D\u0926\u0947\u0938 / Bardes, pronounced [ba\u02D0rd\u032Ae\u02D0s]) is the name of a region and taluka in North Goa. The name is credited to the Brahmin immigrants who migrated to the Konkan via Magadha in Gangetic India from Aryavarta, in the north-western part of the Indian sub-continent. Bardez or more properly Bara (twelve) desh (country) means \"twelve countries\" (or lands)."@en .