Grão Pará and Maranhão Company
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gr-o-par-and-maranh-o-company-278-9740520
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Grão Pará and Maranhão Company
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The General Company of Grão-Pará and Maranhão was a Portuguese chartered company founded in 1755 by the Marquis of Pombal to develop and oversee commercial activity in the state of Grão-Pará and Maranhão, an administrative division of the colony of Brazil. Employees of the company were officially considered to be in the service of the Portuguese Crown and were responsible directly to Lisbon. The company greatly increased the volume of trade in Grão-Pará and Maranhão, though after the Marquis of
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%A3o_Par%C3%A1_and_Maranh%C3%A3o_Company
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2024-04-18T23:14:13Z
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