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founded the city of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro in 1565 and, in 1567, established the Royal Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, appointing Estácio de Sá as its first representative. He died later that same year. In 1570, the then governor of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, Antônio Salema, assembled an army of Portuguese troops supported by catechized indigenous people

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