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Rio de Janeiro was the host of the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics, making the city the first South American and Portuguese-speaking city to ever host the events, and the third time the Olympics were held in a Southern Hemisphere city. [13]
The original demonym for the State of Rio de Janeiro is fluminense, from Latin flumen, fluminis, meaning "river".While carioca (from Old Tupi) is an older term, first attested in 1502, fluminense was sanctioned in 1783, twenty years after the city had become the capital of the Brazilian colonies, as the official demonym of the Royal Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro and subsequently of the Province ...
Cariocas. The archaic demonym for the Rio de Janeiro State is Fluminense, taken from the Latin word flūmen, meaning "river".Despite the fact that Carioca is a more ancient demonym of Rio de Janeiro's inhabitants (known since 1502), it was replaced by fluminense in 1783, when the latter was sanctioned as the official demonym of the Royal Captainship of Rio de Janeiro (later the Province of Rio ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Rio de Janeiro: . Rio de Janeiro – capital and most populous city of Rio de Janeiro state, and the second most populous city in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was founded in 1565 by the Portuguese as part of the Portuguese Empire.
Rio de Janeiro is a city in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro may also refer to: Rio de Janeiro (state), a state of Brazil; Greater Rio de Janeiro, the metropolitan area of the city in Brazil; A former name for Guanabara Bay; Rio de Janeiro (Bahia), a river in the Brazilian state of Bahia; Río de Janeiro (Buenos Aires Metro), a metro station in Buenos Aires
Rio de Janeiro, a Brazilian city; Rio de Janeiro (state), a state in Brazil; Rajasthan, a state in India; Technology. Registered jack, a standardized ...
Mary C. Karasch, Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850 (Princeton University Press, 1987) Jeffrey D. Needell, A Tropical Belle Epoque: Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro (Cambridge University Press, 1987) "Rio de Janeiro City", Brazil (4th ed.), Lonely Planet, 1998, p. 146+, ISBN 9780864425614 – via Open Library
Janeiro is the Portuguese word for January. It may also refer to: "Janeiro", abbreviation for Rio de Janeiro or Rio de Janeiro (state) Janeiro Tucker, Barbadian cricketer "Janeiro" (song) Janeiro de Baixo , parish in Pampilhosa da Serra; Janeiro de Cima , parish in Fundão, Portugal; Vale de Janeiro , parish in Vinhais