Pernambuco, a seaport in N. Brazil, consists of three portions connected by bridges: Recife, on a peninsula, the business quarter; San Antonio, the modern quarter, on an intermediate island; and Bon Vista, on the mainland; manufactures cotton and tobacco, and has shipbuilding yards; the trade chiefly with England, the United States, and France; it is the capital of a province (1,100) of the name, producing sugar and cotton.
Population (circa 1900) given as 130,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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