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Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was a quilombo, a community of escaped slaves and others, in colonial Brazil that developed from 1605 until its suppression in 1694. It was located in the captaincy of Pernambuco, in what is today the Brazilian state of Alagoas.
In the 1630s, Brazil provided 80% of the sugar sold in London, while it only provided 10% by 1690. [32] The Portuguese colony of Brazil did not recover economically until the discovery of gold in southern Brazil during the 18th century. [33] The Dutch period in Brazil was "a historical parenthesis with few lasting traces" in the social sphere. [34]
English: Map of Dutch Brazil from 1630-1654, overlayed on a modern day map of Brazil. Referenced from Groote historische schoolatlas ten gebruike bij het onderwijs in de vaderlandsche en algemeene geschiedenis P42
1694 in Brazil (1 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 31 August 2019, at 03:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Portuguese map by Lopo Homem (c. 1519), showing the coast of Brazil and natives extracting brazilwood, as well as Portuguese ships On 22 April 1500, during the reign of king Manuel I , a fleet led by navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral landed in Brazil and took possession of the land in the name of the king.
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Zumbi (c. 1655 – November 20, 1695), also known as Zumbi dos Palmares (Portuguese pronunciation: [zũˈbi dus pɐwˈmaɾis]), was a Brazilian quilombola leader and one of the pioneers of resistance to enslavement of Africans by the Portuguese in colonial Brazil.