Bandeirante
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Bandeirantes (; ; singular: bandeirante) were frontiersmen and explorers in colonial Brazil who, from the early 16th century, participated in inland expeditions to find precious metals and enslave indigenous peoples. They played a major role in expanding Brazil's borders to its approximate modern-day limits, beyond the boundaries demarcated by the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas.
Key facts
- Historical event.Result
- Bandeirantes being a mixture of indigenous people and Portuguese descendents explored unmapped regions of the Brazilian colony improving the economy and finding new riches. Expansion of Brazilian territory far beyond the Tordesillas line.
- Historical event.Event_Name
- Bandeirantes
- Historical event.Image_Name
- Jesus, Benedito Calixto de - Domingos Jorge Velho e o Loco-tenente Antônio F. de Abreu.jpg
- Historical event.Image_Caption
- Domingos Jorge Velho and Antônio F. de Abreu, by Benedito Calixto
- Historical event.Location
- Colonial Brazil
- Historical event.Date
- 16th–18th century
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Name
- Background
- Paulistas
- Identity
- Slavery
- Relations with Jesuits
- Fernão Dias Pais Leme
- Gold hunting
- Expansion of the bandeirantes to the south
- Legacy
- 20th and 21st centuries
- Notable ''bandeirantes''
- See also
- Notes
- Bibliography
- External links
Bandeirantes (; ; singular: bandeirante) were frontiersmen and explorers in colonial Brazil who, from the early 16th century, participated in inland expeditions to find precious metals and enslave indigenous peoples. They played a major role in expanding Brazil's borders to its approximate modern-day limits, beyond the boundaries demarcated by the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas.
Most bandeirantes hailed from São Paulo, then a small village in the Captaincy of São Vicente from 1534 to 1709 and later the Captaincy of São Paulo from 1720 to 1821. Some bandeirantes were descended from Portuguese colonists who settled in São Paulo, but most were of mameluco descent with both Portuguese and indigenous ancestry. This was due to miscegenation being the norm in colonial Brazilian society, as well as polygamy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bandeirante” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.