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Antônio De Sampaio
Antônio de Sampaio was a Brazilian brigadier general and war hero, considered to be one of the finest generals during the 19th century. He participated in many rebellions and wars during his service but died from three wounds during the Battle of Tuyutí of the Paraguayan War. He was given the title of ''Patrono da Arma de Infantaria'' for his service within the Brazilian infantry. Early military career and descendants Antônio was born on "Fazenda Vitor" in Tamboril, 288 kilometers from Fortaleza. He was the son of Antônio Ferreira de Sampaio, who was a blacksmith and Antônia Xavier de Araújo. He had a normal youth like any young man from the countryside at the harshness of the northeastern backlands. At the age of 20, on July 17, 1830, he enlisted as a volunteer in the ranks of the then 22nd Battalion of Hunters, based in the Fortress of Nossa Senhora de Assunção, commissioned as an ensign on May 20, 1839, and being confirmed on September 2, 1839, and a lieutenant on De ...
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Tamboril, Ceará
Tamboril, Ceará is a municipality in the state of Ceará in the Northeast region of Brazil. It has an area of about 2046.6 km², and is located at a latitude of 04º49'56" South and longitude 40º19'14" West, at an altitude of 322 meters. The estimated population of Tamboril in 2020 was 26,225. Tamboril contains 8 districts: * Boa Esperança * Carvalho * Curatis * Holanda * Oliveiras * Sucesso * Açudinho * Tamboril (Main district) Tamboril is about 54 kilometers away from the municipality of Crateús, the regional capital of Ceará. See also *List of municipalities in Ceará This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Ceará (CE), located in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Ceará is divided into 184 municipalities, which are grouped into 33 microregions, which are grouped into 7 mesoregions. See also ... References Municipalities in Ceará {{Ceará-geo-stub ...
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Battle Of Estero Bellaco
The Battle of Estero Bellaco was one of the bloodiest battles of the Paraguayan War. The battle was fought on 2 May 1866 with the Paraguayan Army suffering 2,000 casualties among the dead and wounded. Likewise, 300 of their men were taken prisoner by the troops belonging to the Triple Alliance: Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. The allies lost nearly 2,000 men, mostly wounded, and the Uruguayan troops of General Venancio Flores - commanded by León de Palleja - were severely decimated, accounting for the vast majority of allied deaths. This estuary is located in the Department of Ñeembucú, Paraguay, on the banks of the river of the same name. To the south is the Argentine Republic. Background On 16 April 1866, Allied troops under the command of Marshal Osório, crossed the River Paraguay The Paraguay River (Río Paraguay in Spanish, Rio Paraguai in Portuguese, Ysyry Paraguái in Guarani) is a major river in south-central South America, running through Brazil, Bolivia, ...
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Ceará
Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the main tourist destinations in Brazil. The state capital is the city of Fortaleza, the country's fourth most populous city. The state has 4.3% of the Brazilian population and produces 2.1% of the Brazilian GDP. Literally, the name ''Ceará'' means "sings the jandaia". According to José de Alencar, one of the most important writers of Brazil and an authority in Tupi Guaraní, ''Ceará'' means turquoise or green waters. The state is best known for its extensive coastline, with of sand. There are also mountains and valleys producing tropical fruits. To the south, on the border of Paraíba, Pernambuco and Piauí, is the National Forest of Araripe. Geography Ceará has an area of . It is bounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, ...
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Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a beta global city, Rio de Janeiro is the sixth-most populous city in the Americas. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a k ...
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Paraná River
The Paraná River ( es, Río Paraná, links=no , pt, Rio Paraná, gn, Ysyry Parana) is a river in south-central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina for some ."Parana River". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012. Web. 26 May. 2012 . "Rio de la Plata". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012. Web. 26 May. 2012 Among South American rivers, it is second in length only to the Amazon River. It merges with the Paraguay River and then farther downstream with the Uruguay River to form the Río de la Plata and empties into the Atlantic Ocean. The first European to go up the Paraná River was the Venetian explorer Sebastian Cabot, in 1526, while working for Spain. A drought hit the river in 2021, causing a 77-year low. Etymology In eastern South America there is "an immense number of river names containing the element ''para-'' or ''parana-''", f ...
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Constitutionalist Revolution
The Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932 (sometimes also referred to as Paulista War or Brazilian Civil War) is the name given to the uprising of the population of the Brazilian state of São Paulo against the Brazilian Revolution of 1930 when Getúlio Vargas assumed the nation's Presidency; Vargas was supported by the people, the military and the political elites of Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul and Paraíba. The movement grew out of local resentment from the fact that Vargas ruled by decree, unbound by a Constitution, in a provisional government. The 1930 Revolution also affected São Paulo by eroding the autonomy that states enjoyed during the term of the 1891 Constitution and preventing the inauguration of the governor of São Paulo, Júlio Prestes, in the Presidency of the Republic, while simultaneously overthrowing President Washington Luís, who was governor of São Paulo from 1920 to 1924. These events marked the end of the First Republic. Vargas appointed a northea ...
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Paulista Revolt Of 1924
The Paulista Revolt of 1924, also known as the Forgotten Revolution, Isidoro Revolution, Revolution of 1924 and the Second 5 July, was the second tenentist revolt in Brazil. The armed conflict took place mainly in and around the city of São Paulo between 5 and 28 July 1924. It was based in the dissatisfaction of junior officers with the country's economic crisis and the concentration of power in the hands of politicians from São Paulo and Minas Gerais states. Outbreak of the revolt Commanded by general Isidoro Dias Lopes, the revolt involved a number of junior officers, including Joaquim do Nascimento Fernandes Távora (who died in the revolt), Juarez Távora, Miguel Costa, Eduardo Gomes, Artur Índio do Brasil e Silva and João Cabanas. The main aim was to depose President Artur Bernardes, who was considered an enemy of the army since the publication of the forged “cartas falsas” correspondence with Raul Soares de Moura in which the President appeared to have made anti ...
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War Of Canudos
The War of Canudos (, , 1895–1898) was a conflict between the First Brazilian Republic and the residents of Canudos in the northeastern state of Bahia. It was waged in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery in Brazil (1888) and the overthrow of the monarchy (1889), which resulted in a millenarian religious revival led by Antônio Conselheiro (who began attracting attention around 1874). The inhabitants of Canudos were "so numerous, employed such artful strategies and so committed" that it took four military campaigns to defeat them. The conflict came to a brutal end in October 1897, when a large fraction of the Brazilian army was deployed to bombard and overrun the settlement, raze it and slaughter nearly all its inhabitants. This conflict marked the deadliest civil war in Brazilian history. Background The conflict had its origins in the former settlement of Canudos (named ''Belo Monte'' by its inhabitants, meaning "Beautiful Hill" in Portuguese) in the semi-arid backc ...
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Revolta Da Armada
The Brazilian Naval Revolts, or the Revoltas da Armada (in Portuguese), were armed mutinies promoted mainly by admirals Custódio José de Melo and Saldanha da Gama and their fleet of rebel Brazilian navy ships against the claimed unconstitutional staying in power of president Floriano Peixoto. First revolt In November 1891, President Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, amid a political crisis compounded by the effects of an economic crisis, in flagrant violation of the new constitution, decided to "solve" the political crisis by ordering the closure of Congress, supported mainly by Paulista oligarchy. The Navy, still resentful of the circumstances and outcomes of the coup that had put an end to the monarchy in Brazil, under the leadership of admiral Custódio José de Melo, rose up and threatened to bombard the city of Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of Brazil. To avoid a civil war, marshal Deodoro resigned the presidency in 23 November. With the resignation of Deodoro, after just ...
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Rio De Janeiro (state)
Rio de Janeiro () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil. It has the second largest economy of Brazil, with the largest being that of the state of São Paulo. The state, which has 8.2% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for 9.2% of the Brazilian GDP. The state of Rio de Janeiro is located within the Brazilian geopolitical region classified as the Southeast (assigned by IBGE). Rio de Janeiro shares borders with all the other states in the same Southeast macroregion: Minas Gerais ( N and NW), Espírito Santo ( NE) and São Paulo ( SW). It is bounded on the east and south by the South Atlantic Ocean. Rio de Janeiro has an area of . Its capital is the city of Rio de Janeiro, which was the capital of the Portuguese Colony of Brazil from 1763 to 1815, of the following United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1815 to 1822, and of later independent Brazil as a kingdom and republic from 1822 to 1960. The state's 22 largest cities are Rio de Janeiro, São G ...
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Nossa Senhora De Assunção
''Nossa'' is a genus of moths in the family Epicopeiidae. The genus was described by William Forsell Kirby in 1892. Species *''Nossa alpherakii'' ( Herz, 1904) *''Nossa moorei'' ( Elwes, 1890) *''Nossa nagaensis'' ( Elwes, 1890) *''Nossa nelcinna'' ( Moore, 875 *''Nossa palaearctica ''Nossa palaearctica'' is a moth in the family Epicopeiidae first described by Staudinger in 1887. It is found in the Russian Far East and China. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex) is a searchable ...'' ( Staudinger, 1887) Former species * '' Nossa chinensis'' * '' Nossa leechii'' References External links * Epicopeiidae Moth genera {{Geometroidea-stub ...
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Fortaleza
Fortaleza (, locally , Portuguese for ''Fortress'') is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It belongs to the Metropolitan mesoregion of Fortaleza and microregion of Fortaleza. It is Brazil's 5th largest city and the twelfth richest city in the country in GDP. It also has the third richest metropolitan area in the North and Northeast regions. It is an important industrial and commercial center of Brazil, the nation's eighth largest municipality in purchasing power. According to the Ministry of Tourism, the city reached the mark of second most desired destination of Brazil and fourth among Brazilian cities in tourists received. The BR-116, the most important highway of the country, starts in Fortaleza. The municipality is part of the Common Market of Mercosur Cities, and also the Brazilian state capital which is closest to Europe, from Lisbon, Portugal. To the north of the city lies the Atlantic Ocean; to the south are the municipalities of Pacatuba, E ...
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