Captaincy of Pernambuco

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colonial administrative division former Portuguese colony hereditary captaincy

The Captaincy of Pernambuco was a major colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil, centered on the lucrative sugar-producing region around present-day Recife and Olinda.

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Label Occurrences
Captaincy of Pernambuco canonical 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf colonial administrative division ⓘ
former Portuguese colony ⓘ
hereditary captaincy ⓘ
administrativeCenter Olinda ⓘ
Recife ⓘ
borderedBy Captaincy of Bahia ⓘ
Captaincy of Ceará ⓘ
Captaincy of Itamaracá ⓘ
Captaincy of Paraíba ⓘ
Captaincy of Paraíba ⓘ
surface form: Captaincy of Rio Grande do Norte
capital Olinda ⓘ
Recife ⓘ
colonizer Kingdom of Portugal ⓘ
continent South America ⓘ
country Portuguese Empire ⓘ
createdBy Portuguese Crown ⓘ
economyType plantation economy ⓘ
endCause transformation into Province of Pernambuco ⓘ
endTime 1821 ⓘ
foundedBy Duarte Coelho Pereira ⓘ
governedBy donatário captain ⓘ
royal governor ⓘ
hadEvent Luso-Dutch War in Brazil ⓘ
surface form: Dutch occupation of Pernambuco
hasCoastlineOn Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
hasMajorCity Olinda ⓘ
Recife ⓘ
hasPort Porto do Recife ⓘ
surface form: Port of Recife
hasRebellion Mascate War ⓘ
Pernambucan Insurrection ⓘ
Pernambucan Revolution of 1817 ⓘ
knownFor Atlantic slave-based plantation economy ⓘ
sugar production ⓘ
sugarcane plantations ⓘ
language Portuguese ⓘ
locatedIn Northeast Region of Brazil ⓘ
mainExport Brazilwood ⓘ
sugar ⓘ
namedAfter Pernambuco ⓘ
occupiedBy Dutch Republic ⓘ
Dutch West India Company ⓘ
partOf Portuguese America ⓘ
surface form: Portuguese Brazil

Portuguese Empire ⓘ
surface form: Portuguese colonial empire

Portuguese America ⓘ
surface form: State of Brazil (Portuguese colony)
religion Roman Catholicism ⓘ
startTime 1534 ⓘ
successor Pernambuco ⓘ
surface form: Province of Pernambuco

Pernambuco ⓘ
surface form: State of Pernambuco
usedLabor enslaved Africans ⓘ
indigenous labor ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mauritsstad → locatedIn → Captaincy of Pernambuco ⓘ
Captaincy of Ceará → borderedBy → Captaincy of Pernambuco ⓘ