Who are also known as paulistas. Perhaps one of our Brazilians can explain the distinction.
To complete this thread, I said in DXLD 12-02: I always assumed it meant standard-bearers, or flag-wavers. My Langenscheidt dixionary says: ``(Braz., hist.) member of the expeditions called bandeiras; adj.: of or related to bandeiras`` so it`s related. Note: will people please stop misspelling this ``Bandierantes`` (Guilherme Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn Paulistas is the people whose born in São Paulo state. Bandeirantes are the pioneers of Brazilian colonization times, whose tamed the inland part of the Brazilian country, always coming from São Paulo city. Inittialy they was looking for the natives, to turn them as a slaves; later, precious stones or gold (from Minas Gerais state). In this process, they made important territory conquests, that formed the actual Brazilian territory (other reasons was the cause of this territory formation, but the Bandeirantes was an important part). These excursions, are nominated "Bandeiras". These Bandeiras reached very remote lands in that times, like Roraima or Acre state, always coming from Sao Paulo. Raposo Tavares (who reached northern lands of Brasil) and Fernão Dias Paes (who reached Minas Gerais; his son was the owner of the actual Embu city territory), are the most known Bandeirantes, among others. According some historians, the Bandeirantes "phenomenon" was unique, have no other like in the world history. Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec Embu - Sao Paulo - Brasil ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
