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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 303 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GOYANNA, or GOIANA

GOYANNA, or GOIANA , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

Brazil in the N.E. See also:

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle of the See also:

state of See also:

PERNAMBUCO

Pernambuco, about 65 m. N. of the city of Pernambuco. Pop.( 189o) 15,436. It is built on a fertile See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain between the See also:

rivers Tracunhaem and Capibaribe-mirim near their junction to See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form the Goyanna See also:

RIVER

river, and is 15 M. from the See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast. It is surrounded by, and is the commercial centre for, one of the richest agricultural districts of the state, which produces See also:

SUGAR

sugar, See also:

rum, See also:

COFFEE (Fr: cafe, Ger. Kaffee)

coffee, See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco, See also:

cotton, See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, hides and See also:

CASTOR

castor oil. The Goyanna river is navigable for small vessels nearly up to the city, but its entrance is partly obstructed and difficult. Goyanna is one of the See also:

OLDEST

oldest towns of the state, and was occupied by the Dutch from 1636 to 1654. It has several old-See also:

style churches, an orphans' See also:

asylum, See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital and some small See also:

INDUSTRIES

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