There is some modern-day research, including by Croatian historian Darko Bekić, into a trading post established by Croat merchants in 1530–35, shortly after the Portuguese conquest of Goa in 1510. It was economically successful for a while, mainly dealing in Indian spices and textiles. Bekić thought the Ragusans founded their own colony on the outskirts of Goa, named São Brás after the church they had built in 1563.