Quepem is a town with a municipal council in South Goa district in the Indian state of Goa. The town is the administrative headquarters of th…Quepem is a town with a municipal council in South Goa district in the Indian state of Goa. The town is the administrative headquarters of the Quepem taluka. The town was established by a Portuguese nobleman Deão Jose Paulo de Almeida, the dean of the church in AD 1787 after he moved there just five years after the conquest of Quepem sub-district by the Portuguese. He built his famous Palácio do Deão, followed by a public market, hospital, a church and other facilities for the benefit of the inhabitants through his own expense. He was later awarded the unofficial title of Barão de Quepem by then viceroy D. Manuel Francisco Zacarias de Portugal e Castro.
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