Spain and Portugal. Under the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), the Spanish were granted the right to claim lands west of the line (most of the Americas) while the Portuguese could claim lands east of it (Brazil, colonies in India and Asia).
Brazil was a colony of Portugal not the other way around.
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Brasil was the only Portuguese colony because the Treaty of Tordesillas.
It was likely that the Portuguese colony of Brazil would eventually expand into Spanish claimed territory. Already by the time of the Treaty of Tordesillas' signing, there were skirmishes over the area that now forms the border between Argentina and Brazil. Furthermore, Spain wanted to avoid a conflict with Portugal in the Old World as concerns Portugal's numerous maritime colonies.
The first Portuguese settlements in Brazil were east of the Tordesillas line.
Spain and Portugal. Under the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), the Spanish were granted the right to claim lands west of the line (most of the Americas) while the Portuguese could claim lands east of it (Brazil, colonies in India and Asia).
Spain----------------------------------------------Brazil declared its independence from Portugalon September 7, 1822. Portugal acknowledged Brazil's independence in the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro, signed August 29, 1825.
Portugal was not a British colony.
Brazil was a colony of Portugal not the other way around.
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Portugal was the colonial ruler of Brazil when Brazil was a colony of Portugal.
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