quilombo community
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Vinony's link graph records 188 inbound references to quilombo community, and connects out to Garifuna, quilombola and Colombia.
It is catalogued under topics including Ethnic groups in Brazil, Maroons (people) and Quilombo.
Vinony links it to 19 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- community
- Subclass of
- social movement
- Has part
- slave
- Notable work
- Palmares
- Country
- Brazil
- Creator
- slave
- Image
- Quilombo Biritinga (16263456495).jpg
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- time period
- Colonial Brazil
- model item
- Palmares
- used by
- quilombola
- facet of
- African diaspora
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Other meaning in Spanish
- History
- Background: Slavery in Brazil
- Quilombo in the early modern period
- Constitution of Brazil
- Quilombos
- Palmares
- Mola
- Curiaú
- Cunani
- Popular culture
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Brazilian quilombolas during a meeting in [[Brasília, 2007]] thumb|A quilombo in Amapá
A quilombo (; from the Kimbundu word , ) is a Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by people of African origin, and others sometimes called Carabali. Most of the inhabitants of quilombos, called quilombolas, were maroons, a term for escaped slaves. Documentation about refugee slave communities typically uses the term mocambo for settlements, which is an Ambundu word meaning "war camp". A mocambo is typically much smaller than a quilombo. Quilombo was not used until the 1670s, primarily in the more southerly parts of Brazil. In Colombia, such villages or camps were called . Its inhabitants are . They spoke various Spanish-African-based creole languages such as Palenquero.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “quilombo community” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.