Leopoldina, Minas Gerais
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| Leopoldina | |||
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| Country | Brazil | ||
| State | Minas Gerais | ||
| Mesoregion | Zona da Mata | ||
| Microregion | Catagueses | ||
| Founded | April 27, 1854 | ||
| Area | |||
| - Total | 942.74 km² (364 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 225 m (738 ft) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| - Total | 52,798 | ||
| - Density | 56/km² (145.1/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | BRST (UTC−3) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | BRDT (UTC−2) | ||
Leopoldina is a municipality of 53,000 in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
It is situated in the southeastern Zona da Mata part of the state.
Leopoldina was the site of a wave of immigration of Jews, mostly from Eastern Europe, in the 1920s and 1930s, as detailed in a book Jews of Leopoldina, published in 2007 by the Jewish Museum of Rio de Janeiro. [1]
The city is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leopoldina.
[edit] References
- ^ "Dateline World Jewry", April 2007, World Jewish Congress
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