Diu, a small Portuguese island, with a port of the same name, in the Gulf of Cambay, S. of the peninsula of Gujarat, India; was a flourishing place once, and contained a famous Hindu temple; inhabited now chiefly by fishermen.
Population (circa 1900) given as 12,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ditton, Humphry * Divan, The