Politics of Pernambuco: Difference between revisions

At the beginning of [[Colonial Brazil|Brazil's colonization]] in 1530, [[John III of Portugal|King John III of Portugal]] (r. 1521–1557) divided the territory into [[Captaincies of Brazil|hereditary captaincies]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bueno |url=http://www.esextante.com.br/media/upload/livros/CapitaesdoBrasil_Trecho.pdf |title=Capitães do Brasil: A saga dos primeiros colonizadores |publisher= |year=2019 |isbn= |location= |pages=7–9 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161112144802/http://www.esextante.com.br/media/upload/livros/CapitaesdoBrasil_Trecho.pdf|archive-date= 2016-11-12|language=}}</ref> The first donee of the [[Captaincy of Pernambuco]] was [[Duarte Coelho]], who took possession of it in 1535 and named it "''Nova Lusitânia''"<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=História de Pernambuco |url=https://www.pe.gov.br/historia |access-date=February 25, 2019 |website=Governo de Pernambuco |language=pt}}</ref> It became the richest in Brazil, due to the production of [[sugarcane]], and was also the state responsible for more than half of Brazil's sugarcane exports.<ref name=":2" /> Speaking about the center of the colonial economy, Father Fernão Cardim said that "''in Pernambuco one finds more vanity than in [[Lisbon]]''", an opulence that seemed to derive, as suggested by [[Gabriel Soares de Sousa]] in 1587, from the fact that, at the time, the captaincy was "''so powerful (...) that there are more than one hundred men in it who have from 1,000 to 5,000 [[Portuguese real|cruzados]] of income, and some from 8,000 to 10,000 cruzados. From this land many rich men came out to these kingdoms that were very poor''". Around the beginning of the 17th century, the Capitaincy of Pernambuco was the largest and richest sugar-producing area in the world.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Silva |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N-ue_iT-jkQC |title=A faina, a festa e o rito: uma etnografia histórica sobre as gentes do mar (sécs. XVII ao XIX) |publisher= |year=2001 |isbn= 9788530806354|location= |language=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gândavo |url=http://psb40.org.br/bib/b146.pdf |title=Tratado da Terra do Brasil; História da Província Santa Cruz |publisher= |year=1980 |location= |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140416234904/http://psb40.org.br/bib/b146.pdf|archive-date= 2014-04-16|language=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hemming |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pwfw3bCtpbsC |title=Ouro vermelho: a conquista dos índios brasileiros |publisher= |year=2007 |location= |pages=135 |isbn= 9788531409608|language=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bezerra |first=Janaína Santos |date=August 17, 2010 |title=Fragmentos de um Recife Setecentista: Configurações Urbanas e Realizações Culturais |url=http://www.historiahistoria.com.br/materia.cfm?tb=artigos&id=137 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919165038/http://www.historiahistoria.com.br/materia.cfm?tb=artigos&id=137 |archive-date=September 19, 2016 |access-date=February 25, 2010 |website=história e-história |language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Recife — cidade que surgiu do açúcar |url=https://wol.jw.org/pt/wol/d/r5/lp-t/102005410 |access-date=February 25, 2019 |website=Biblioteca on-line da Torre de Vigia |language=pt}}</ref>

 

 

=== Revolts that occurred in Pernambuco ===

 

==== Mascate War ====

 

== Voter statistics ==

 

Recife is the municipality with the largest number of voters, with 1,215,546. It is followed by [[Jaboatão dos Guararapes]], with 478,789 voters, Olinda (297,800) and [[Caruaru]] (239,299).<ref name=":24" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Estatísticas do eleitorado – Consulta por região/UF/município |url=https://www.tse.jus.br/eleicoes/estatisticas/estatisticas-de-eleitorado/quantitativo-do-eleitorado/consulta-quantitativo |access-date=March 1, 2019 |website=Tribunal Superior Eleitoral - TSE |language=pt}}</ref> The municipality with the smallest number of voters is [[Ingazeira]], with just over four thousand.<ref name=":0" /> In Pernambuco there are also municipalities with more voters than inhabitants, the largest difference in the state, in 2020, coming from the city of Cumaru, with 5,143 more voters, the city also has the largest difference in absolute numbers in Brazil, besides [[Cumaru]] the municipalities of [[Brejinho]], [[Calumbi]] and [[Sairé]] have more voters than inhabitants.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Luiza |first=Falcão |date=September 25, 2020 |title=Cumaru, em Pernambuco, lidera lista de cidades com mais eleitores do que habitantes em todo o Brasil |url=https://g1.globo.com/pe/pernambuco/eleicoes/2020/noticia/2020/09/25/cumaru-em-pernambuco-lidera-lista-de-cidades-com-mais-eleitores-do-que-habitantes-em-todo-o-brasil.ghtml |access-date=January 24, 2023 |website=G1 |language=pt}}</ref>

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