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51 relations: Administrative division, António de Ataíde, Bandeirantes, Bertioga, Cabo Frio, Cametá, Cananéia, Captain general, Captaincies of the Portuguese Empire, Captaincy General, Captaincy of Bahia, Captaincy of Pernambuco, Captaincy of São Vicente, Catholic Church, Coat of arms of Portugal, Colonial Brazil, Colony, Donatário, Duarte Coelho, English language, Equator, Fief, Flag of Portugal, Governor-general, Governorate General of Bahia, Governorate General of Brazil, Governorate General of Rio de Janeiro, Icatu, Ilha de Vera Cruz, João de Barros, John III of Portugal, Laguna, Santa Catarina, List of Portuguese monarchs, Martim Afonso de Sousa, Monarchy, Nobility, Paraty, Paubrasilia, Pernambuco, Philippine dynasty, Plantation, Portugal, Portuguese Empire, Portuguese language, Portuguese real, Provinces of Brazil, State of Brazil, Sugarcane, Treaty of Tordesillas, United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, ..., Vasco Fernandes Coutinho, captain of Espírito Santo. Expand index (1 more) »
Administrative division
An administrative division, unit, entity, area or region, also referred to as a subnational entity, statoid, constituent unit, or country subdivision, is a portion of a country or other region delineated for the purpose of administration.
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António de Ataíde
António de Ataíde (c. 1500 - 1563), count of Castanheira, was a childhood friend and favorite of King John III of Portugal (João III).
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Bandeirantes
The Bandeirantes were 17th-century Portuguese settlers in Brazil and fortune hunters.
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Bertioga
Bertioga is a Brazilian municipality of the state of São Paulo in the Baixada Santista.
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Cabo Frio
Cabo Frio (Cold Cape) is a Brazilian municipality in Rio de Janeiro state, founded by the Portuguese on November 13, 1615.
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Cametá
Cametá is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pará.
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Cananéia
Cananéia is the southernmost city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, near to where the Tordesilhas Line passed.
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Captain general
Captain general (and its literal equivalent in several languages) is a high military rank of general officer grade, and a gubernatorial title.
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Captaincies of the Portuguese Empire
The Captaincies of the Portuguese Empire (Capitanias do Império Português) were the socio-administrative territorial divisions and hereditary lordships established initially by Henry the Navigator, as part of the Donatário system in order to settle and developed the Portuguese overseas Empire.
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Captaincy General
The Captaincy General was a division of a viceroyalty in Spanish or Portuguese colonial administration.
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Captaincy of Bahia
The Captaincy of Bahia, fully the Captaincy of the Bay of All Saints (Modern Capitania da Baía de Todos os Santos), was a captaincy of Portuguese Brazil.
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Captaincy of Pernambuco
The Captaincy of Pernambuco or New Lusitania (Nova Lusitânia) was a hereditary land grant and administrative subdivision of northern Portuguese Brazil during the colonial period from the early sixteenth century until Brazilian independence.
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Captaincy of São Vicente
The Captaincy of São Vicente (1534–1709) was a land grant and colonial administration in the far southern part of the colonial Portuguese Empire in Colonial Brazil.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Coat of arms of Portugal
The coat of arms of Portugal is the main heraldic insignia of Portugal.
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Colonial Brazil
Colonial Brazil (Brasil Colonial) comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to a kingdom in union with Portugal as the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.
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Colony
In history, a colony is a territory under the immediate complete political control of a state, distinct from the home territory of the sovereign.
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Donatário
A donatário (Portuguese for "donated" or "endowed "), sometimes anglicized as donatary, was a private person—often a noble—who was granted a considerable piece of land (a donataria) by the Kingdom of Portugal.
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Duarte Coelho
Duarte Coelho Pereira (c. 1485 – 7 August 1554) was a nobleman, military leader, and colonial administrator in the Portuguese colony of Brazil.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Equator
An equator of a rotating spheroid (such as a planet) is its zeroth circle of latitude (parallel).
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Fief
A fief (feudum) was the central element of feudalism and consisted of heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fealty (or "in fee") in return for a form of feudal allegiance and service, usually given by the personal ceremonies of homage and fealty.
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Flag of Portugal
The Flag of Portugal (Bandeira de Portugal) is a rectangular bicolour with a field unevenly divided into green on the hoist, and red on the fly.
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Governor-general
Governor-general (plural governors-general) or governor general (plural governors general), in modern usage, is the title of an office-holder appointed to represent the monarch of a sovereign state in the governing of an independent realm.
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Governorate General of Bahia
The Governorate General of Bahia (Portuguese: Governo-Geral da Bahia) was a colonial administration of the Portuguese Empire.
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Governorate General of Brazil
The Governorate General of Brazil (Portuguese: Governo-Geral do Brasil) was a colonial administration of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil.
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Governorate General of Rio de Janeiro
The Governorate General of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Governo-Geral do Rio de Janeiro) was a colonial administration of the Portuguese Empire.
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Icatu
Icatu is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil.
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Ilha de Vera Cruz
Ilha de Vera Cruz (Portuguese for Island of the True Cross) was the first name given by the Portuguese navigators to the newly discovered land on the northeast coast of what later became known as Brazil.
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João de Barros
João de Barros (1496 – 20 October 1570), called the Portuguese Livy, is one of the first great Portuguese historians, most famous for his Décadas da Ásia ("Decades of Asia"), a history of the Portuguese in India, Asia, and southeast Africa.
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John III of Portugal
John III (João III; 7 June 1502 – 11 June 1557) nicknamed "o Colonizador" (English: "The Colonizer") was the King of Portugal and the Algarves from 13 December 1521 to 11 June 1557.
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Laguna, Santa Catarina
Laguna is a Brazilian municipality located in the southern state of Santa Catarina, 120 kilometers south of the state's capital, Florianópolis, and north east of Porto Alegre.
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List of Portuguese monarchs
The monarchs of Portugal ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal, in 1139, to the deposition of the Portuguese monarchy and creation of the Portuguese Republic with the 5 October 1910 revolution.
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Martim Afonso de Sousa
Martim Afonso de Sousa (c. 1500 – 21 July 1564) was a Portuguese fidalgo, explorer and colonial administrator.
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Monarchy
A monarchy is a form of government in which a group, generally a family representing a dynasty (aristocracy), embodies the country's national identity and its head, the monarch, exercises the role of sovereignty.
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Nobility
Nobility is a social class in aristocracy, normally ranked immediately under royalty, that possesses more acknowledged privileges and higher social status than most other classes in a society and with membership thereof typically being hereditary.
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Paraty
Paraty (or Parati) is a preserved Portuguese colonial (1500–1822) and Brazilian Imperial (1822–1889) municipality with a population of about 36,000.
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Paubrasilia
Paubrasilia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.
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Pernambuco
Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country.
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Philippine dynasty
The Philippine Dynasty, also known as the House of Habsburg in Portugal, was the third royal house of Portugal.
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Plantation
A plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.
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Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire (Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas (Ultramar Português) or the Portuguese Colonial Empire (Império Colonial Português), was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in world history and the first colonial empire of the Renaissance.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.
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Portuguese real
The real (meaning "royal", plural: réis or reais) was the unit of currency of Portugal from around 1430 until 1911.
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Provinces of Brazil
The provinces of Brazil were the primary subdivisions of the country during the period of the Empire of Brazil (1822 - 1889).
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State of Brazil
The State of Brazil (Estado do Brasil) was one of the states of the Portuguese Empire, in the Americas during the period of Colonial Brazil.
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Sugarcane
Sugarcane, or sugar cane, are several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Melanesia, and used for sugar production.
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Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas (Tratado de Tordesilhas, Tratado de Tordesillas), signed at Tordesillas on June 7, 1494, and authenticated at Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.
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United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves
The United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves was a pluricontinental monarchy formed by the elevation of the Portuguese colony named State of Brazil to the status of a kingdom and by the simultaneous union of that Kingdom of Brazil with the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of the Algarves, constituting a single state consisting of three kingdoms.
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Vasco Fernandes Coutinho, captain of Espírito Santo
Vasco Fernandes Coutinho (1490–1561) was a Portuguese fidalgo and the first donatary of the Captaincy of Espírito Santo, a colonial territory in what is now Brazil.
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Captaincy Colonies of Brazil, Captaincy of São José do Rio Negro, Hereditary captaincies.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captaincies_of_Brazil
