Tivim, sometimes spelled Thivim, is a village in Nathivim in Bardez, in the North Goa district of Goa, India. It is an important gateway into North Goa as the home to the major railway station in North Goa. Tivim was also the ancestral village of the India's own Russel Alvares, the first global beauty queen of India, Ms. Reita Faria. More recently Prathamesh Maulingkar was crowned Mister Supranational 2018.
Geography
It is located at at an elevation of 23 m above MSL.
Tivim is an ancient village. Oral tradition suggests that the villagers had close ties with the villages of Siolim, Cunchelim and Paraa, as well as the market town of Mapusa. In 1623 the Church of St Christopher was built in Tivim by the villages of Tivim, Sirsaim and Assonora. A Fortress was constructed at Tivim in 1635 by the fourth Count of Linhares. the inscription on its gate read "Reinando O Catholico Rei D. Fillipe 3° governance este Estado o vigilantissimo D. Miguel de Noronha, Conde de Linhares, for feat established obra no anno de 1635". This Fortress was called Forte Novo de Tivim. In the same village two auxiliary forts were raised by Francisco de Távora the Count of Alvôr, respectively named Forte de Assumpção and Forte de Meio de Tivim, which were connected with one another and the one at Colvale by a strong wall protected by a deep ditch. These two forts were taken by Sambhaji in 1683 who retained them for a short time. Sambhaji also destroyed the church of St. Christopher, which was subsequently rebuilt. Writing in 1831 the French priest Rev. Denis L Cottineau regarded Tivim as one of the thirty-six villages and twenty-six parishes of Bardes. In 1834 the forts at Tivim were abandoned In 1878 the population of Tivim was estimated at around 6000 and the village had a school.
One of the main stations for North Goa can be found at Tivim. It is part of the north–south line and trains from Bombay and Kerala stop in this small station. Tivim came on the rail route of India, after the building of the Konkan Railway in the 1990s. This station lies at an elevation of 23 m above sea level, and is part of the Konkan Railway/Konkan zone, in the division of Karwar. It is located just off the Mapusa-Bicholim road at Thivim, Bardez, North Goa.
