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The State of Brazil or Government-General of Brazil was one of the states of the Portuguese Empire in the Americas during the period of Colonial Brazil. in force between 1548 and 1815. Created in the
The Paço dos Vice-Reis, today the Paço Imperial, administrative seat of the State of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro after 1763.
State of Brazil, 1549.
Rio Branco Palace (Salvador) of 1919 at Praça Tomé de Sousa, where the former Casa do Governo stood, seat of the government-general of the State of Brazil (from 1549 to 1763).
Matias de Albuquerque, Count of Alegrete was a Portuguese colonial administrator and soldier. He was nicknamed "Hero of Two Continents" for his performance, beginning in 1624, against the Dutch invade
Matias de Albuquerque
Seventeenth-century view of Olinda
View of the city of Maurícia (Recife) by Pieter Schenck, based on a drawing from Frans Post, 1645