History of Brazilian nationality History of Brazilian nationality Located in South America, Brazil is the fifth largest and fifth most populous nation in the world. First discovered by Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral on April 22, 1500, it remained a Portuguese colony until it declared its independence on September 7, 1822. Brazil's economy was largely based on agriculture and mining; specifically the production of sugar and tobacco for export. As a result, land was concentrated in the hands of relatively few wealthy, plantation-owning families, and production was largely dependent on slave labor. The intermixing of these Europeans and Blacks, as well as the native
Nationality law of the People's Republic of China civil war, until it was revised in 2000 (see Nationality law of Taiwan for more details). From the establishment of the Communist regime on 1 October 1949 to 9 September 1980, China had no statutory nationality law except for the Sino-Indonesian Dual Nationality Treaty adopted in 1955, which was a bilateral treaty between China and Indonesia's Sukarno government instead of a statutory law. From the period between 1949 and 1955, China recognized dual nationality as did Taiwan, therefore the Treaty was the first regulation in Chinese history to ban dual nationality between China and other countries. On 10 September 1980,