By the time the Portuguese arrived in 1510, the population of Tiswadi had a Muslim majority due to mass immigration from Bijapur. Afonso de Albuquerque took the help of Timoji and defeated the ruling Bijapur king Yusuf Adil Shah during the Portuguese conquest of Goa. The Bijapur Muslim residents of Goa were exiled (e.g. Benastarim) or killed (e.g. Velha Goa) by the Portuguese and the local Hindus. All the mosques (which were previously built on temples) were destroyed and churches were built on them.