Coffee Plantation up São João do Manhuaçu City mouth – Minas Gerais State – Brazil.

Amethyst is produced in abundance from the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil where it occurs in large geodes within volcanic rocks.

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.

Amblygonite from Taquaral, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Until the 1980s, the flagship of the ocean-going navy was the aircraft carrier Minas Gerais ( the ex-British HMS Vengeance ), which has been in service since 1945.

Purchased from Britain in 1956, the Minas Gerais was reconstructed in the Netherlands in 1960 and refitted extensively in Brazil in the late 1970s, and again in 1993.

In 1994 Mário César Flores, a former minister of navy, declared in an interview that the navy would be hard-pressed to defend the Minas Gerais in a conflict.

While the Minas Gerais was not considered likely to be replaced until the next century, it was nonetheless decommissioned in 2001 following the purchase of the French aircraft carrier Foch.

As of July 2002, the fate of the Minas Gerais was still unknown, with China having reportedly made a surprise bid for its purchase.

The complement of aircraft carried by the Minas Gerais included at one point six Grumman S-2E antisubmarine planes, in addition to several SH-3D Sea King helicopters and Aérospatiale Super Puma and HB-350 Esquilo helicopters.

A crew of the Minas Gerais with full air complement consisted of 1, 300 officers and enlisted personnel.

The Brazilian government has announced that a Helibras factory in the city of Itajubá, Minas Gerais, will initially produce 50 units of the EC 725 and up to 150 new helicopters for the Brazilian military.

More redeployments are expected since the states of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo still concentrate over 49, 000 soldiers.

* Corinto, Minas Gerais

The federal Brazilian judge Carlos Alberto Simões de Tomaz, of the Minas Gerais judiciary section, ordered the ban in October 2007 because, according to him, the games " bring imminent stimulus to the subversion of the social order, attempting against the democratic and rightful state and against the public safety ".

On 17 January 2008, the Judge of the 17th Federal Court of Minas Gerais State forbade the sales of the game in the whole Brazilian territory.

*** Governors of Minas Gerais

* Montezuma, Minas Gerais, Brazil, a municipality

Minas Gerais federal University.

On July 9, 1775 a Cavalry Regiment was created in Minas Gerais for maintaining law and order.

Slave being whipped in Brazil, during the heyday of gold exploration in Minas Gerais ( 1770 ).

Although samba exists throughout Brazil – especially in the states of Bahia, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, and São Paulo – in the form of various popular rhythms and dances that originated from the regional batuque, a type of music and associated dance form from Cape Verde, the samba is most frequently identified as a musical expression of urban Rio de Janeiro, where it was born and developed between the end of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century.

Another such claim is made for a stalactite that hangs in the Chamber of Rarities in the Gruta Rei do Mato ( Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil ).

* Sacramento, Minas Gerais

Colorless topaz, Minas Gerais, Brazil

The Portuguese spoken across the states of Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo, as well neighboring towns in Minas Gerais and in the city of Florianópolis, has similar features, little distinctive from each other, so that cities as Paraty, Resende, Juiz de Fora, Campos dos Goytacazes, Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Vila Velha and Linhares may be said to sport the same dialect together with Rio de Janeiro, as they will hardly be perceived as strong regional variants by people from other parts of Brazil.

Ceasa Minas Greater BH ( regional wholesale supply center ) is located in Contagem.

Juiz de Fora is an important regional cultural center, one of the few towns in south-east Minas Gerais to have permanently functional cinemas, theatres, music venues and light entertainment.

There is also a regional center for treatment of cancer, which serves a population of three million people in the south of Minas Gerais.

There is a large regional bus terminal in Chitré ; destinations include Las Minas, Las Tablas, Los Posos, Ocú, Panama City, Pesé, Santiago, and Tonosí.

Vivo Minas ( formerly known as Telemig Celular ) was a regional Brazilian telecommunications company headquartered in Belo Horizonte.

Originally a general aviation company, Air Minas started its operations as a regular regional carrier on August 16, 2006.

The production team noted this in DVD commentary, explaining their decision to include some Byzantine domes into Minas Tirith architecture and to have civilians wear Byzantine-styled clothing.

Other locations include include the Ural Mountains of Russia ; Sweden ; Minas Gerais, Brazil ; Ampangabe, Madagascar ; Ontario, Canada ; and in Arizona, Wyoming and Colorado in the U. S. A.

Some planned capitals include Abuja, Nigeria ( 1991 ); Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil ( 1855 ); Ankara, Turkey ( 1923 ); Austin, Texas ( 1839 ); Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil ( 1897 ); Dhaka, Bangladesh ( 1971 ); Brasília, Brazil ( 1960 ); Canberra, Australia ( 1927 ); Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil ( 1933 ); Islamabad, Pakistan ( 1960 ); Frankfort, Kentucky ( 1792 ); Jefferson City, Missouri ( 1821 ); Jhongsing New Village, Taiwan, Republic of China ( 1955 ); New Delhi, India ( 1911 ); Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ( 1889 ); Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ( 1857 ); Palmas, Tocantins, Brazil ( 1989 ); Quezon City, Philippines ( 1948 – 1976 ); Raleigh, North Carolina, USA ( 1792 ); Washington D. C., USA ( 1800 ); and Wellington, New Zealand ( 1865 ).

These include neo-Pentecostalists, old Pentecostalists and Traditional Protestants ( most of them Baptists, Presbyterians and Methodists ) predominantly from Minas Gerais to the South.

Its borders include: ( E ) Domingos Martins, Santa Maria de Jetibá and Itarana ( N ) Laranja da Terra and the neighbouring state of Minas Gerais, ( W ) Brejetuba ( S ) Conceição do Castelo and Venda Nova do Imigrante.

But the province of São Paulo, enlarged by the Bandeiras to include Mato Grosso, Goiás, Paraná and Santa Catarina, remained undeveloped, having neither the gold of Minas Gerais nor the sugar cane of Pernambuco.

Corregimientos include Las Minas ( capital ), Chepo, Chumical, El Toro, Leones, Quebrada del Rosario and Quebrada El Ciprián.

Both domains include several cities, including Edoras, Minas Tirith, Minas Morgul and Pelargir.

Board games include Risk: Lord of the Rings Trilogy Edition and another simply entitled Lord of the Rings, as well as the Middle Earth Games from Simulations Publications, Inc. containing the games War of the Ring ( strategic, covering all three books ), Gondor ( tactical, covering the siege of Minas Tirith ) and Sauron ( covering the decisive battle of the Second Age ) in 1977.

Other notable localities include: Arendal and Tvedestrand, Norway ; Novo Horizonte, São Paulo, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, and Minas Gerais, Brazil ; Madagascar ; and California, Colorado, Georgia, and North Carolina, New Hampshire, United States.

The similar parable in, the Parable of the Minas, is generally similar, but differences include the inclusion of the motif of a king obtaining a kingdom, and the entrusting of the servants with equal amounts, measured in minas rather than talents ( 1 talent = 60 mina ).

Nearby villages include El Jute, Minas, Guadalupe, Chapas, San Juan Tapalapa, El Palmar.