"donatary captaincy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1983, James Lockhart, Stuart B. Schwartz, Early Latin America:",
          "text": "The main feature was the hereditary seigneury or donatary captaincy, under which lordship over extensive territories on the Brazilian coast was granted out between 1533 and 1535.",
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          "ref": "1994, Otto Solbrig, Dorothy J. Solbrig, So Shall You Reap: Farming And Crops In Human Affairs, page 155:",
          "text": "Pernambuco proved to be the most successful of the donatary captaincies established in Brazil, largely owing to the donatary Duarte Coelho.",
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          "ref": "2006, John Michael Francis, Iberia and the Americas, page 412:",
          "text": "Donatary captaincies were the political, territorial, and administrative units of colonial Brazil.",
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        "A hereditary land grant in colonial Brazil, held by a donatary captain."
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        "(historical) A hereditary land grant in colonial Brazil, held by a donatary captain."
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  "word": "donatary captaincy"
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          "text": "Pernambuco proved to be the most successful of the donatary captaincies established in Brazil, largely owing to the donatary Duarte Coelho.",
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        "(historical) A hereditary land grant in colonial Brazil, held by a donatary captain."
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