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Recife

1537 CE

Major sugar trade port in colonial Brazil, briefly capital of Dutch Brazil and center of the transatlantic sugar…

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Recife

1537 CE – still standing

Major sugar trade port in colonial Brazil, briefly capital of Dutch Brazil and center of the transatlantic sugar economy

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