• A jagunço (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒaˈɡũsu]), from the Portuguese zarguncho (a weapon of African origin, similar to a short lance or chuzo), is an...
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    setting in the sertão and nearly all revolve around the figure of the jagunço, a mercenary-like figure that serves as a militia to farmers and secures...
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    time. Grande Sertão: Veredas is the complex story of Riobaldo, a former jagunço (mercenary or bandit) of the poor and steppe-like inland of the Rio São...
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  • the Jagunço / Killer Sete Homens Vivos ou Mortos (1969) O Cangaceiro Sem Deus (1969) O Cangaceiro Sanguinário (1969) - Capitão / Captain Jagunço Corisco...
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    in the Backlands] It narrates in first person the life of adventures of jagunço Riobaldo. He is joined by Diadorim, a boy for whom he begins to feel a...
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  • ambush referred to in the title is carried out by Natario de Fonseca, a jagunço in the service of a plantation owner, Colonel Boaventura. Twenty gunfighters...
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    bandits who served as irregulars during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. Jagunço – armed hand in Northern Brazil. Kachaks - Albanian bandits and rebels...
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    region, there were two main groups of loosely organized armed outlaws: the jagunços, mercenaries who worked for whoever paid their price, usually land-owners...
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    (in Portuguese). No. 55. pp. 26–33. Benício, Manoel (2013). O rei dos jagunços (PDF) ([2nd ed.] ed.). Brasilia: Senado Federal, Conselho Editorial....
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    most of the inhabitants. The conflict started with Conselheiro and his jagunços (landless peasants) of this "remote and arid" area protesting against the...
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  • Carvana), the corrupt police chief of the town, hires Antônio das Mortes as a jagunço against Coirana and Antônio fatally wounds Coirana in a duel. However,...
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    Dinheiro Online magazine – Jagunço da notícia: Assis Chateaubriand Archived October 22, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (The news jagunço: Assis Chateaubriand...
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  • Zuleika Luciana Souza Filomena Malu Valle Mariquinha Saad Marcello Goncalves jagunço do fazendeiro Osvaldo Mil delegado Raoni Carneiro Osório Pimentel Shimon...
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  • as of April 2024 (link) Calasans, José (2021-08-06). Quase biografia de jagunços: o séquito de Antonio Conselheiro (in Brazilian Portuguese). Edufba....
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    Traquinices de Chiquinho e seu inseparável amigo Jagûnço (The Escapades of Chiquinho and His Inseparable Friend Jagûnço) on April 26, 1917. In 1918, Avênturas de...
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    and speech of the backlands, reaching deep into the psychology of the jagunço of central Brazil. Research into language was a characteristic feature...
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    Os Jagunços. Macedo Soares, Henrique Duque-Estrada de. A Guerra de Canudos.Rio de Janeiro: Typ. Altiva, 1902 Benício, Manoel. O Rei dos Jagunços. Rio...
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    southern Bahia became known for its own culture, marked by land struggles, jagunços, and the luxury of the cacao "colonels". The prospect of wealth increased...
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    trouble in the region, since many of the new residents were not-so-peaceful "jagunços" (hired armed men who worked for farmers), leading to appeals to the government...
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    Azevedo) A Capital Federal (1897) O Badejo (1898) Confidências (1898) O Jagunço (1898) Comeu! (1901) O Retrato a Óleo (1902) O Dote (1907) Portuguese Wikisource...
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  • safety he felt the need to hire armed body guards called by the people Jagunço. Fame had grown of Canudos and because of this the government sent 30 armed...
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    Among these journalists, in addition to Neno Vasco, were Marcelo Varema, Jagunço, A Barão, Albino Moreira, João Penteado, Amaro de Matos, Manuel Moscoso...
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    There was a lack of water and firewood for the trains, and government jagunços took advantage of the dry climate to set fire to the forests on the side...
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  • A list of films that are based on western fiction. Geographically, this page encompasses the frontiers of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well...
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    advance as "slack". The vegetation was dry, and along the route, government jagunços set fire to the sides of the roads to make it difficult for the revolutionaries...
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  • film. Original lost. Traquinices de Chiquinho e seu inseparável amigo Jagunço Unknown Traditional animation Based on the comic strip published in the...
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  • voice to the sertanejo and describes, in monologue, the long journey of jagunços through Minas Gerais, Goiás and Bahia. Another post-modern writer, Clarice...
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    since it was also used in Brazil at the time, especially popular among jagunços (see Meirelles, 2005 (in Portuguese) p.426 penultimate paragraph) and Army...
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    "state within the state" in Chapada Diamantina. An expedition of a thousand jagunços and Public Force soldiers was repelled by Matos' militiamen in Lençóis...
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    gouldingi Vari, 1992 Cyphocharax helleri (Steindachner, 1910) Cyphocharax jagunco Dutra, Penido, G. C. G. Mello & Pessali, 2016 Cyphocharax laticlavius Vari...
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