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Duarte Coelho Pereira

Portuguese donatário

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role in Brazilian history

  • Core map of Pernambuco, Brazil
    In Pernambuco

    …at Olinda in 1535 by Duarte Coelho Pereira, who had been granted a captaincy extending from the mouth of the São Francisco River northward to the vicinity of modern Recife. The Dutch occupied the region from 1630 to 1654, and during their occupation a well-planned town was built where present-day…

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  • Brazil
    In Brazil: Exploration and initial settlement

    Its donatário, Duarte Coelho Pereira, converted Pernambuco into a great sugar-producing region, offering the first example of a profitable agrarian export from the New World to Europe.

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