Trade was mostly with the Portuguese colony of Brazil ; Brazilian ships were the most numerous in the ports of Luanda and Benguela.

* Brazilian War of Independence ( 1822 – 1824 ): Series of military campaigns that had as objective to cement Brazilian sovereignty and end Portuguese resistance.

Most of them were Dutch, French, British ( English ), Arab and Jewish ( from Lebanon and Morocco ), Chinese ( especially from Macau ), American, and Brazilian ( including people of Portuguese and African descent ).

* In 2010, Chuck D made an appearance on the track " Transformação " ( Portuguese for " Transformation ") from Brazilian rapper MV Bill's album Causa E Efeito (: pt: Causa e Efeito, meaning Cause And Effect ).

In the Brazilian colony the Portuguese, like many European colonists, opted to use slavery to supply this shortage of workers.

The Portuguese monopoly effectively came to an end when Brazilian ports opened for trade with foreign nations.

Present in many countries in every continent, every year Capoeira attracts to Brazil thousands of foreign students and, often, foreign capoeiristas work hard to learn the official Brazilian language, Portuguese, in an effort to better understand and become part of the art.

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

Although mesoclisis is extremely formal in Brazilian Portuguese and tends to be circumscribed in lesser formal registers by avoiding synthetical future / conditional verb forms, European Portuguese still allows clitic object pronouns to surface as mesoclitics in colloquial situations:

Cavalry or mounted gendarmerie units continue to be maintained for purely or primarily ceremonial purposes by the United States, British, French, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Chilean, Portuguese, Moroccan, Nepalese, Nigerian, Venezuelan, Brazilian, Peruvian, Paraguayan, Polish, Argentine, Senegalese, Jordanian, Pakistani, Indian, Spanish and Bulgarian armed forces.

Portuguese has for now two official written standards, respectively Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese, but in a short term it will have a unified orthography.

* 1809 – Combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces begin the Invasion of Cayenne during the Napoleonic Wars.

* 1822 – The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process.

Speakers of language variants ( Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese, for example ) may be considered to possess a single lexicon.

The Brazilian werewolf is mostly related to the Portuguese belief, which includes the werewolf being forced to perform a series of religious duties.

The slave trade was conducted mostly with the Portuguese colony of Brazil ; Brazilian ships were the most numerous in the port of Luanda.

A similar process happened during the development of many languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, Old French, and Polish, in all three of these resulting in or, whence Modern French sauce as compared with Spanish salsa, or Polish Wisła ( pronounced ) as compared with English Vistula.

With Portuguese the dominant language in the areas of heavy Brazilian migration and Brazilian currency circulating as legal tender, the area became closely integrated with Brazil.

In recent years, Brazilian government agencies such as the SEPPIR and the IPEA, in their analysis of socioeconomic indicators, have been considering the categories " preto " and " pardo " together, as a single category called " negro " ( Black, capital initial ), since the indicators of living conditions of " pardos " and " pretos " are similar and the word " negro " can be used in other contexts, and not only when addressing pretos.

* " Black Wind, Fire and Steel " has been covered by Brazilian heavy metal band Immortal Choir, by Swedish punk band Venerea and by Spanish rock / punk band Reserva Dos, this last under the name " Viento negro, fuego y acero " ( in Spanish ).

“ Every Brazilian, even the light skinned fair haired one carries about him on his soul, when not on soul and body alike, the shadow or at least the birthmark of the aborigine or the negro, in our affections, our excessive mimicry, our Catholicism which so delights the senses, our music, our gait, our speech, our cradle songs, in everything that is a sincere expression of our lives, we almost all of us bear the mark of that influence .”

In Brazil, the term " preto " ( black ) is one of the five categories used by the Brazilian Census, along with " branco " ( White ), " pardo " ( Multiracial, brown ), " amarelo " ( yellow, East Asian ) and " indígena " ( Amerindian ).

In 2010, 14 million, 6. 9 % of the Brazilian population, self-identified themselves as preto.

Chief among the seed crops grown primarily for industrial uses are the oil-bearing seeds -- flax, castor, tung ( nuts from the China wood-oil tree ), perilla ( from an Oriental mint ), and oiticica ( from a Brazilian tree ).

Artigas, Uruguay and neighboring Brazilian state Rio Grande do Sul are large world producers exceeding in quantity Minas Gerais, as well as Mato Grosso, Espirito Santo, Bahia, and Ceará states, all amethyst producers of importance in Brazil.

The back and sides of a particular guitar are typically made of the same wood ; Brazilian or East Indian rosewood and Honduras mahogany are traditional choices, however, maple has been prized for the figuring that can be seen when it is cut in a certain way ( such as " flame " and " quilt " patterns ).

Dietary restrictions are not used by the highly urban Brazilian ayahuasca church União do Vegetal, suggesting the risk is much lower than perceived, and probably non-existent.

An increasing percentage of the ranks are " long-service " volunteer professionals ; women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in early 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks ; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps.

The Mirage 2000s are meant to be in service until at least 2015, when the Brazilian Air Force foresee the ( postponed ) F-X entering in service.

Estimates are produced by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research ( INPE ) for the entire Brazilian Legal Amazon by visually interpreting satellite imagery from the Landsat Thematic Mapper.

Usually Brazilian bocks are produced by local breweries or craft breweries, especially in the cities of German settlement in Santa Catarina State and also in Petrópolis, state of Rio de Janeiro.

The back and sides are made out of a variety of woods such as mahogany, Indian rosewood and highly regarded Brazilian rosewood ( Dalbergia nigra ).

Nowadays, even though apelidos are not necessary anymore, the tradition is still very alive not only in Capoeira but in many aspects of Brazilian culture.

The five stars are also in the logo of the Brazilian football team Cruzeiro Esporte Clube and the Brazilian coat of arms ; it is mentioned in the Brazilian national anthem, and even featured as the name of the currency ( the cruzeiro from 1942 to 1986 and again from 1990 to 1994.

The Latin American, Brazilian, Spanish, German and Italian versions of Digimon are completely uncensored and uncut from the original Japanese edition.

The canoe s taxis are on the Maroni ( Surinamese border ) between Saint-Laurent du Maroni and Apatou, as well as the Oyapock ( Brazilian border ) between Saint-Georges-de-Oyapock and the Brazilian city of Oiapoque. Apatou is located at 3 o ' clock on the Maroni.

The back and sides are made out of a variety of timbers such as mahogany, Indian rosewood and highly regarded Brazilian rosewood ( Dalbergia nigra ).

While modern M16s and equipment are standard issue, much of the secondary equipment used by the Ghanaian military is generally older than that used in Western military forces, and Ghanaian troops frequently rely on British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish weaponry.

Some systems, such as amateur wrestling, submission wrestling, judo, sumo, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu are exclusively grappling arts and do not allow striking.

Judo, Freestyle Wrestling, and Greco-Roman Wrestling are Olympic Sports while Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and Sambo have their own World Championship Competitions.

In Brazil, according to the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, racism and other forms of race-related hate speech are " imprescriptible crime ( s ) with no right to bail to its accused ".

The Sakishima Islands beyond the straights are antipodal to Paraguay, from the Brazilian border almost to Asunción, with Ishigaki overlapping San Isidro de Curuguaty, and the uninhabited Senkaku Islands surrounding Villarrica.

Japanese emigrant communities ( the largest of which are to be found in Brazil, with 1. 4 million to 1. 5 million Japanese immigrants and descendants, according to Brazilian IBGE data, more than the 1. 2 million of the United States ) sometimes employ Japanese as their primary language.

By contrast, a study of the jaguar in the Brazilian Pantanal region found average weights of 100 kg ( 220 lb ), and weights of or more are not uncommon in old males.