NATAL, VILA OU CIDADE?

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Título
NATAL, VILA OU CIDADE?
Mercator
UFRN
Autor
Rubenilson Brazão Teixeira
Assunto
Cidade
Fundação
Natal
Poder municipal
Terminologia
Vila
Abstract
In the studies that deal with the history of the city of Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, there are contradictory assertions about the urban status it received when it was founded in 1599. For some authors, it emerged as a vila (village); for others, as a cidade (city), two categories of urban settlements included in the Portuguese urban terminology of that period. In this work, we show that it is possible to decide clearly in favor of one of these assertions based upon the analysis of a series of historiographic and documentary evidences and other considerations.Keywords: Natal, village, city, foundation, terminology, municipal power.
volume
18
Date
2019
Língua
en-US
doi
10.4215/rm2019.e18001
issn
1984-2201
Coleções
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