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The name Brazil is a shortened form of Terra do Brasil ("Land of Brazil"), a reference to the brazilwood tree. The name was given in the early 16th century to the territories leased to the merchant consortium led by Fernão de Loronha, to exploit brazilwood for the production of wood dyes for the European textile industry.
"Great River of the North"; Rio Grande was the original Portuguese name of the Potenji River Rio Grande do Sul: Portuguese "Great River of the South"; the long and narrow Patos Lagoon (lagoon of the ducks) was probably mistaken for a river; thus the name of the first important settlement in the state, the town of Rio Grande Rondônia
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The country's name became the Republic of the United States of Brazil (which in 1967 was changed to Federative Republic of Brazil). Two military presidents ruled through four years of dictatorship amid conflicts among the military and political elites (two Naval revolts , followed by a Federalist revolt ), and an economic crisis due to the ...
English: On Brazilian territory there are place names of indigenous origin with over five hundred years of existence, given by Indians themselves in the past, perhaps even before the Discovery of Brazil, together with artificial indigenous names having few decades of existence. Such names appeared since the second half of the 19th century and ...
The official Portuguese name of the land, in original Portuguese records, was the "Land of the Holy Cross" (Terra da Santa Cruz), [36] but European sailors and merchants commonly called it the "Land of Brazil" (Terra do Brasil) because of the brazilwood trade. [37]
The names of thirteen of Brazil's twenty six states also have Amerindian origin. Starting in the early 19th century, Brazil started to receive substantial immigration of non-Portuguese-speaking people from Europe and Asia. Most immigrants, particularly Italians [24] and Spaniards, adopted the Portuguese language after a few generations.
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