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Governorate General of Rio de Janeiro Governo-Geral do Rio de Janeiro | |||||||||
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| 1572–1578 1607–1613 | |||||||||
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 Brazil in 1574 | |||||||||
| Status | Colonial State of thePortuguese Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Rio de Janeiro | ||||||||
| Common languages | Portuguese | ||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||
| Government | Dependent territory under afeudalmonarchy | ||||||||
| Monarch | |||||||||
• 1572–1578 | Sebastian I | ||||||||
• 1607–1613 | Philip II | ||||||||
| Governor General | |||||||||
• 1572–1574 | Cristóvão de Barros | ||||||||
• 1608–1613 | Afonso de Albuquerque | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1572 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1613 | ||||||||
| Currency | Portuguese Real | ||||||||
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TheGovernorate General of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese:Governo-Geral do Rio de Janeiro) was a colonial administration of thePortuguese Empire.
In 1534,John III of Portugal started granting land rights to colonize Portuguese territory inSouth America, they were theCaptaincy Colonies of Brazil. These fifteen autonomous and separate colonies were, for the most part, a failure administratively, and thus economically.
In 1549, in order to solve the governance problem of his South American colonies, John III established theGovernorate General of Brazil.[1] The governorate united the fifteen colonies into a single colony, but each captaincy would continue to exist as a provincial administrative unit of the governorate.
In 1572, in order to establish a stronger and more capable military presence in the continent, the governorate was dismantled into two separate colonies, theGovernorate General of Bahia, which encompassed the northern part, and the Governorate General of Rio de Janeiro, which took the south.
In 1578, the governorate was reestablished from the governorates of Bahia and Rio de Janeiro. This secondGovernorate General of Brazil would be once again partitioned into the two separate colonies, in 1607.
Finally in 1613, the Governorate General of Rio de Janeiro and theGovernorate General of Bahia merged to form the third, and final,Governorate General of Brazil.
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