California Colony (Bahia, Brazil)
Colonia Nova was a Mennonite colony founded in 1949 in the Rio Grande do Sul state in Brazil. The colony comprised of a land area of 2,300 hectares. The colonists came primarily from Witmarsum (Brazil).
Bibliography
Le Polain de Waroux, Yann, Janice Neumann, Anna O’Driscoll and Kerstin Schreiber. “Pious pioneers: the expansion of Mennonite colonies in Latin America.” Journal of Land Use Science 16, no. 1 (2021): 1-17.
Author(s) | Samuel Boucher |
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Date Published | June 2023 |
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Boucher, Samuel. "California Colony (Bahia, Brazil)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. June 2023. Web. 20 Aug 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=California_Colony_(Bahia,_Brazil)&oldid=176099.
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