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Caxias
(kə-shēˈəs)
A city of northeast Brazil east-northeast of Teresina. It is an agricultural processing center. Population: 106,000.
, Duke of. Title of Luiz Alves de Lima y Silva. 1803-1880.
Brazilian general and statesman who commanded the Brazilian army that drove the Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas from Buenos Aires (1851).