Palmares (quilombo)
Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was a quilombo, a community of escaped slaves and others, in colonial Brazil that developed from 1605 until its suppression in 1694. It was located in the captaincy of Pernambuco, in what is today the Brazilian state of Alagoas. The quilombo was located in what is now the municipality of União dos Palmares.
Quilombo dos Palmares or Angola Janga | |||||||||
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| 1605–1694 | |||||||||
Southern part of the Captaincy of Pernambuco, in modern-day state of Alagoas, with representation of the Quilombo dos Palmares | |||||||||
| Status | Quilombo | ||||||||
| Capital | Serra da Barriga, today in Alagoas, Brazil | ||||||||
| Common languages | Bantu languages, Portuguese, Indigenous languages | ||||||||
| Religion | Afro-American religions, Kongo religion, Catholicism and Animism, maybe Islam, Protestantism and Judaism minorities | ||||||||
| Government | Confederated monarchy | ||||||||
• c.1670-1678 | Ganga Zumba (first confirmed) | ||||||||
• 1678 | Ganga Zona | ||||||||
• 1678–1694 | Zumbi (last) | ||||||||
| Historical era | Colonial Brazil | ||||||||
• Runaway African slaves found the settlement on Serra da Barriga | 1605 | ||||||||
• Bandeirantes destroy the last fortress (resistance in the region goes until 1790) | 1694 | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1690 | 11,000 | ||||||||
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