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Event trade Americas

Salvador da Bahia

1549 CE

First capital of Portuguese Brazil and major sugar trade port, also the largest entry point for enslaved Africans in the…

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Capital city of Bahia, Brazil

Salvador, Bahia on Wikipedia.

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Salvador da Bahia

1549 CE – still standing

First capital of Portuguese Brazil and major sugar trade port, also the largest entry point for enslaved Africans in the Americas

Standing in 1549 CE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

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