Place:Bahia, Brazil

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NameBahia
Alt namesBA
TypeState
Coordinates11°S 42°W
Located inBrazil
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Acajutiba
Aiquara
Alagoinhas ( 1800 - )
Alcobaça
Amargosa
Andaraí
Angical
Antas
Aporá
Araci
Aragarças
Aramari
Aratuípe
Baixa Grande
Barra da Estiva
Barra do Mendes
Barra
Barreiras
Belmonte
Bom Jesus da Lapa
Brejões
Brotas de Macaúbas
Brumado
Buerarema
Bôa Nova
Cachoeira
Caculé
Caetité
Cairu
Camamu
Camaçari
Campo Formoso
Canavieiras
Candeias
Cansanção
Caravelas
Carinhanha
Casa Nova
Catu
Central
Chorrochó
Cipó
Coaraci
Conceição do Almeida
Conceição do Coité
Condeúba
Contendas do Sincorá
Coração de Maria
Coribe
Correntina
Cotegipe
Curaçá
Curuçá
Cícero Dantas
Côcos
Encruzilhada
Entre Rios
Esplanada
Euclides da Cunha
Feira de Santana
Floresta Azul
França
Gabiarra
Gabriel
Galheirão
Gentio do Ouro
Glória
Gongogi
Guanambi
Iaçu
Ibicaraí
Ibicuí
Ibipetuba
Ibiquera
Ibirataia
Ibitiara
Ibotirama
Igaporã
Igara
Iguaí
Ilhéus ( 1532 - )
Inhambupe
Ipiaú
Ipirá
Ipupiara
Irará
Irecê
Itaberaba
Itabuna ( 1800 - )
Itacare
Itaetê
Itagi
Itaju do Colônia
Itajuipe
Itamaraju
Itamari
Itambé
Itanhém
Itapebi
Itapetinga
Itapicuru
Itapitanga
Itapé
Itaquara
Itarantim
Itiruçu
Itiúba
Itororó
Ituaçu
Ituberá
Jacaraci
Jacobina
Jacuípe
Jaguaquara
Jaguarari
Jaguaripe
Jandaíra
Jequié ( 1850 - )
Jeremoabo
Jiquiricá
Jitaúna
Juazeiro ( 1800 - )
Laje
Lapão
Lencóis
Livramento do Brumado
Luis Eduardo Magalhaes
Macajuba
Macarani
Macaúbas
Mairi
Maracás
Maragogipe
Maraú
Mata de São João
Medeiros Neto
Miguel Calmon
Monte Santo
Morro do Chapéu
Mucugê
Mucuri
Mundo Novo
Muritiba
Mutuípe
Nazaré
Nilo Peçanha
Nova Soure
Olindina
Oliveira dos Brejinhos
Palmas de Monte Alto
Palmeiras
Paramirim
Paratinga
Paripiranga
Pau Brasil
Paulo Afonso
Piatã
Pilão Arcado
Pindobaçu
Piritiba
Planalto
Pojuca
Porto Seguro
Potiraguá
Poço Verde
Poções
Prado
Queimadas
Remanso
Riacho de Santana
Riachão do Jacuípe
Ribeira do Amparo
Ribeira do Pompal
Rio Real
Rio de Contas
Ruy Barbosa
Salto da Divisa
Salvador ( 1549 - )
Santa Bábara
Santa Cruz Cabrália
Santa Cruz da Vitória
Santa Inês
Santa Maria da Vitória
Santa Teresinha
Santaluz
Santana
Santo Amaro
Santo Antônio de Jesus
Santo Estêvão
Sapeaçu
Saúde
Senhor do Bonfim
Sento Sé
Serra Preta
Serrinha
Sátiro Dias
São Filipe
São Gonçalo dos Campos
São Roque do Paraguaçu
São Timóteo
Tanquinho
Taperoá
Teixeira de Freitas
Tremedal
Tucano
Uauá
Ubaitaba
Ubatã
Ubaíra
Una
Urandi
Uruçuca
Valente
Valença
Vitória da Conquista ( 1800 - )
Xique-Xique
Municipality
Santa Rita de Cássia
Unknown
Abadia
Abrantes
América Dourada
Antônio Cardoso
Araçás
Argoim
Aritaguá
Açu da Torre
Baixão
Banco da Vitória
Barracão
Barro Vermelho
Barão de Bom Jardim
Belo Campo
Bento Simões
Biritinga
Bom Despacho
Bonfim da Feira
Boninal
Brejinho
Brejolândia
Bucuituba
Cajueiro
Cajuí
Camurugi
Castro Alves
Ceraíma
Conceição da Feira
Conde
Coquinhos
Cruz das Almas
Curralinho
Dom Macedo Costa
Encarnação do Passé
Estiva
Formosa do Rio Prêto
Gavião
Governador Mangabeira
Guerém
Guiné
Humildes
Ibó
Iguape
Ipuaçu
Itaparica
Jacurama
Jibóia
José Gonçalves
João Amaro
Juremal
Lauro de Freitas
Lustosa
Madre de Deus
Manga
Maria Quitéria
Maricoabo
Mataripe
Monte Cruzeiro
Monte Gordo
Monte do Recôncavo
Najé
Nova Viçosa
Oliveira dos Campinhos
Ouriçangas
Outeiro Redondo
Palame
Patamuté
Pedra Branca
Pedrão
Pirajuia
Povoação Wagner
Píçarrão
Remédios
Riachão de Jacuípe
Riachão de Utinga
Ribeira de Pombal
Ribeiro do Amparo
Rio Branco
Rio Fundo
Rio da Dona
Rui Barbosa
Salinas da Margarida
Santa Bárbara
Santa Luzia
Santa Terezinha
Saubara
Seabra
Serra Dourada
Serra Grande
São Desidério
São Felipe
São Francisco do Conde
São Félix
São Miguel das Matas
São Sebastião do Passé
São Simão
Sítio do Mato
Tartaruga
Tiquaruçu
Umburanas
Utinga
Velha Boipeba
Ventura
Vera Cruz
Vila Rica
Água Fria
Água Quente
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Bahia (, ; meaning "bay") is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro) and the 5th-largest by area. Bahia's capital is the city of Salvador (formerly known as "Cidade do São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos", literally "City of the Saint Savior of the Bay of All the Saints"), on a spit of land separating the Bay of All Saints from the Atlantic. Once a monarchial stronghold dominated by agricultural, slaving, and ranching interests, Bahia is now a predominantly working-class industrial and agricultural state. The state is home to 7% of the Brazilian population and produces 4.2% of the country's GDP.

History

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The Portuguese Pedro Álvares Cabral sighted Monte Pascoal ("Easter Mountain") near Itamaraju and landed at what is now Porto Seguro on the southern coast of Bahia in 1500, claiming the territory for Portugal. In 1549, Portugal established the city of Salvador on a hill facing the Bay of All Saints. The city and surrounding captaincy served as an administrative capital of Portugal's colonies in the Americas until 1763. It remained the religious capital of Brazil's Roman Catholic hierarchy, with its archbishop serving as the national primate until 1907. Salvador holds the country's oldest cathedral and first medical college (1810), and an engineering school was established in 1899.

Bahia's captaincy was the first to fail, with its lands reverting to the Portuguese crown in 1549. While Portugal was united with Spain, the Dutch West India companies tried to conquer Bahia but was unsuccessful in the area, with Dutch Brazil restricted to the area from Pernambuco Northward.

Bahia was a center of sugarcane cultivation from the 16th to the 18th centuries and contains a number of historic towns, such as Cachoeira, dating from this era. Integral to the sugar economy was the importation of a vast number of African slaves: more than a third of all slaves taken from Africa were sent to Brazil, mostly to be processed in Bahia before being sent to work in plantations elsewhere in the country.

The state was the last area of the country to join the Empire of Brazil, as members in the local elite remained loyal to the Portuguese crown after the rest of the country proclaimed independence under on 7 September 1822. Control of the province was disputed in several battles, mostly in Pirajá, before the Portuguese were fully expelled on 2 July 1823. It became a Brazilian state in 1889.

Charles Darwin visited Bahia in 1832 on his famous voyage on the Beagle. In 1835, Bahia was the site of an urban slave revolt, the Malê Revolt of 1835 by the predominantly Muslim West African slaves at the time. The term malê was commonly used to refer to Muslims at the time from the Yoruba word imale. The revolt is particularly notable as the greatest slave rebellion in the history of the Bahia. Under the Empire, Bahia returned 14 deputies to the general assembly and 7 senators; its own provincial assembly consisted of 36 members. In the 19th century, cotton, coffee, and tobacco plantations joined those for sugarcane and the discovery of diamonds in 1844 led to large influx of "washers" until the still-larger deposits in South Africa came to light. A smaller boom hit Caetité in 1872 upon the discovery of amethysts there. The cattle industry of the interior led to the development of Feira de Santana before collapsing in a series of droughts.

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