Title: European immigration to Brazil
Content: of Europeans to occupy plots of land and become small farmers. After independence from Portugal, the Brazilian Empire focused on the occupation of the provinces of Southern Brazil. From 1824, immigrants from Central Europe started to populate what is nowadays the region of São Leopoldo, in the province of Rio Grande do Sul. Immigration stalled in 1830, due to legislation forbidding government spending with the settlement of immigrants. Besides, Rio Grande do Sul, the main target of immigration, was convulsed with civil war from 1835 to 1845. Between 1820 and 1871, 350,117 immigrants entered Brazil. Of these, 45.73% were Portuguese,

Title: Portuguese people
Content: them went there during the gold rush of the 18th century. Brazil received more European settlers during its colonial era than any other country in the Americas. Between 1500 and 1760, about 700,000 Europeans immigrated to Brazil, compared to 530,000 European immigrants in the United States. They managed to be the only significant European population to populate the country during colonization, even though there were French and Dutch invasions. The Portuguese migration was strongly marked by the predominance of men (colonial reports from the 16th and 17th centuries almost always report the absence or rarity of Portuguese women). This lack

Title: European immigration to Brazil
Content: a reaction among slave owners, which contributed to the erosion of the political foundations of the monarchy. After a few months of parliamentary crises, the Emperor was deposed by the military on November 15, 1889, and a Republican government established. European immigration to Brazil European immigration to Brazil refers to the movement of European people to Brazil. It should not be confused with the colonisation of the country by the Portuguese. Maria Stella Ferreira Levy suggests the following periodisation of the process of immigration to Brazil: During the first two of these periods, immigration to Brazil was almost exclusively of

Title: European immigration to Brazil
Content: European immigration to Brazil European immigration to Brazil refers to the movement of European people to Brazil. It should not be confused with the colonisation of the country by the Portuguese. Maria Stella Ferreira Levy suggests the following periodisation of the process of immigration to Brazil: During the first two of these periods, immigration to Brazil was almost exclusively of European origin, and it remained majoritarily so during all four of them, in spite of the increasing importance of Japanese immigration. Immigration properly started with the opening of the Brazilian ports, in 1808. The government began to stimulate the arrival

Title: Brazil
Content: South America to approximately the current Brazilian borders. In this era other European powers tried to colonize parts of Brazil, in incursions that the Portuguese had to fight, notably the French in Rio during the 1560s, in Maranhão during the 1610s, and the Dutch in Bahia and Pernambuco, during the Dutch–Portuguese War, after the end of Iberian Union. The Portuguese colonial administration in Brazil had two objectives that would ensure colonial order and the monopoly of Portugal's wealthiest and largest colony: to keep under control and eradicate all forms of slave rebellion and resistance, such as the Quilombo of Palmares,

Question: Which European country colonized Brazil?
Answer: Portugal