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Mem de SA, Brazilian History, Biographies

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Mem de SA[mAN di sA] Pronunciation Key, d. 1572, Portuguese colonial official, governor-general of Brazil (1557?–1572). He drove (1567) the French colony from Guanabara Bay and founded the city of Rio de Janeiro at its site.



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