Complex sentence: It was a strategic area and was linked with the mining city of Salvador, the former colonial capital, it became a parish on December 27,1693, it also became Vila de Nossa Senhora do Rosário do Porto da Cachoeira do Paraguaçu in 1698.
Split into simpler sentences: It was a strategic area and was linked with the mining city of Salvador, the former colonial capital. It also became Vila de Nossa Senhora do Rosário do Porto da Cachoeira do Paraguaçu in 1698.