Captaincies of Brazil (Portuguese: Capitanias do Brasil) were captaincies of the Portuguese Empire, administrative divisions and hereditary fiefs of Portugal...

General of Brazil. The governorate united the fifteen original donatary captaincy colonies some of which had reverted to the Crown, and others of which...

success, the Captaincy Colonies of Brazil were united into the Governorate General of Brazil. The captaincy colonies were reorganized as provincial districts...

the date of establishment, earlier to later: Captaincy Colonies of Brazil (Private and autonomous colonies 1534–1549) Captaincies of Brazil (Colonial...

capital at the Bay of All Saints, making it at the Captaincy of Bahia. Tomé de Sousa built the capital of Brazil, Salvador, at the Bay of All Saints in 1549...

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overview Surinam (Suriname) Essequibo New Holland (Brazil – Half the captaincies) Welserland (Venezuela) Brazil (Rio de Janeiro briefly, and São Luís briefly)...

capital of the State of Brazil was transferred from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro. The State of Brazil originally included 12 of the original 15 captaincies, all...

royal captaincies. The government of the Marquis of Pombal (1750–1777) significantly centralized the administration of the Portuguese colonies. By 1759...

Dynasty, known in Brazil as the Iberian Union, a period between 1580 and 1640 when Portugal and its colonies were under the rule of the Spanish Crown...