State of Brazil
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State of Brazil Estado do Brasil | |
|---|---|
| 1530-1815 | |
The State of Brazil in 1790 | |
| Status | State of the Portuguese Empire |
| Capital | Salvador (1645-1763) Rio de Janeiro (1763-1815) |
| Common languages | Portuguese |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Government | Dependent territory under an absolute monarchy |
| Monarch | |
* 1521-1557 | John III (first) |
* 1777-1816 | Maria I (last) |
| Governor General/Viceroy | |
* 1549-1553 | Tome de Sousa (first) |
* 1806-1808 | Count of Arcos (last) |
| History | |
* End of hereditary captaincies | 1549 |
* Transference of the capital to Rio de Janeiro | 1763 |
| 1792 | |
| 22 January 1808 | |
* Elevation of Brazil to Kingdom | 16 December 1815 |
| Currency | Portuguese Real |
| ISO 3166 code | BR |
The State of Brazil (Portuguese: Estado do Brasil) was one of the states of the Portuguese Empire, in the Americas during the period of Colonial Brazil.
History
[edit]In 1621, the Governorate General of Brazil was split into two states, the State of Brazil and the State of Maranhao. The state was created on June 13, 1621 by Philip II of Portugal.[1]
This action divided Portuguese America into two administrative units, with the capital of the State of Brazil located in Sao Salvador and the capital of the State of Maranhao located in Sao Luis.
The State of Brazil became a Viceroyalty in January 1763, when the capital of the State of Brazil was transferred from Sao Salvador to Rio de Janeiro.
Composition
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The State of Brazil originally included 12 of the original 15 captaincies, all except Ceara (which became subordinate to Pernambuco later) and Maranhao, two parts, which included the subcaptaincy of Para west of the Tordesillas Line at that time (north to south):
- Captaincy of Rio Grande de Norte
- Captaincy of Paraiba (southern Rio Grande & Itamaraca)
- Captaincy of Pernambuco
- Captaincy of Bahia
- Captaincy of Ilheus (became a comarca of Bahia in 1761)
- Captaincy of Porto Seguro
- Captaincy of Espirito Santo
- Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro (Sao Tome and Sao Vicente first section)
- Captaincy of Santo Amaro
- Captaincy of Sao Vicente (second section, later renamed Captaincy of Sao Paulo e Minas de Ouro)
- Captaincy of Santana
Captaincies created by the state
[edit]- Captaincy of Alagoas 1817 from Pernambuco
- Captaincy of Ceara 1799 re-split from Pernambuco (previously existed as one of 15 original donatary captaincies)
- Captaincy of Goias
- Captaincy of Mato Grosso
- Captaincy of Minas Gerais
- Captaincy of Sao Paulo
- Captaincy of Sergipe 1820 from Bahia
- Captaincy of Rio Grande do Sul (from region of Rio Grande de Sao Pedro)
- Captaincy of Santa Catarina
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Mundo Vestibular: BRASIL COLONIA". Archived from the original on 11 March 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
External links
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