Governorate General of Rio de Janeiro
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Governorate General of Rio de Janeiro |
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Governo-Geral do Rio de Janeiro | ||||||||||
Colonial State of the Portuguese Empire | ||||||||||
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Brazil in 1572
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Capital | Rio de Janeiro | |||||||||
Languages | Portuguese | |||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism | |||||||||
Government | Monarchy | |||||||||
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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The Governorate General of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Governo-Geral do Rio de Janeiro) was a colonial administration of the Portuguese Empire.
History[edit]
In 1534, John III of Portugal started granting land rights to colonize Portuguese territory in South America, they were the Captaincy 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 the Governorate 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, the Governorate 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 second Governorate 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 the Governorate General of Bahia merged to form the third, and final, Governorate General of Brazil.
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- Former countries in South America
- States and territories established in 1572
- States and territories disestablished in the 1610s
- Colonial states of the Portuguese Empire
- Portuguese colonization of the Americas
- Former Portuguese colonies
- Former subdivisions of Brazil
- Governorates of the Portuguese Empire
- 1572 establishments in Brazil
- 1578 disestablishments in Brazil
- 1607 establishments in Brazil
- 1613 disestablishments in Brazil