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The provinces of Brazil were the primary subdivisions of the country during the period of the Empire of Brazil (1822 – 1889). [1]On February 28, 1821, the provinces were established in the Kingdom of Brazil (then part of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves), superseding the captaincies that were in place at the time.
This centralization later helped to keep Brazil as a unified nation-state, avoiding fragmentation similar to that of the Spanish domains. The captaincies became provinces in 1821, during the final years of the Kingdom of Brazil (united with Portugal), and maintained that designation after independence in 1822 under the Empire of Brazil. Most ...
The Empire of Brazil. The Neutral Municipality is Rio de Janeiro, the imperial capital within the province of the same name. The territory which would come to be known as Brazil was claimed by Portugal on 22 April 1500, when the navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral landed on its coast. [3]
Proclamation of the Piratini Republic.Antônio Parreiras.. The Riograndense Republic, [1] often called the Piratini Republic (Portuguese: República Rio-Grandense or República do Piratini), was a de facto state that seceded from the Empire of Brazil and roughly coincided with the present state of Rio Grande do Sul.
The name comes from the Latin prefix "cis" meaning "on this side of" and "platina", a reference to the Río de la Plata.Thus, the name Cisplatina means "province on the same side of the Río de la Plata", alluding to the fact that, from the Brazilian perspective, the region is located on the same side of the river as Brazil, cf. Cisalpine.
This is a list of territories of the Portuguese Empire (Portuguese: Império Português), that at various times were officially called "states" (estados): State of India (Estado da Índia) (1505–1961) [1] State of Brazil (Estado do Brasil) (1621–1815) [2] State of Maranhão (Estado do Maranhão) (1621–1751)
A large group of slaves gathered on a farm in the province of Minas Gerais (Brazilian southeast), 1876. The diplomatic victory over the British Empire and the military victory over Uruguay in 1865, followed by the successful conclusion of the war with Paraguay in 1870, marked the beginning of the "golden age" of the Brazilian Empire. [190]
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