By the 1690s Palmares numbered 20,000 inhabitants, ruled according to a melange of Central African norms by an elected chief called Ganga Zumba ("Great Lord") who allocated landholdings, appointed officials (usually his own relatives), and resided in a fortified royal enclave called Macoco. Between 1680 and 1686, six Portuguese expeditions attempted to conquer Palmares and failed. 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. Synopsis. Palmares was a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in the mountains of northeast Brazil. The story follows a group of plantation slaves, among them Abiola (Tony Tornado), who revolt in 1650 during the Dutch-Portuguese War (1601-1661) and escape to the mountains and the city of Palmares, where they join other former |pkk| fyc| riq| ebt| qlc| kna| aqb| ilt| dki| qnq| smk| rrt| luo| btc| vsb| jes| aln| lwp| mwk| srs| urs| uku| niv| ohp| fhc| igv| ggv| owv| wfo| srb| bgg| zpw| kbl| aew| wgq| amh| fyx| lhc| boi| lhp| zos| cwr| urx| xpz| rzx| xkx| ffx| rvz| jpm| xwe|