Leopoldina
Encyclopedia
Leopoldina is a municipality
in the Brazil
ian state of Minas Gerais
. , it has a population of 51,136.
It is situated in the southeastern Zona da Mata
mesoregion
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.
The city is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leopoldina
.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in the Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian state of Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
. , it has a population of 51,136.
It is situated in the southeastern Zona da Mata
Zona da Mata (Minas Gerais)
Zona da Mata is a mesoregion of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, situated in the southeastern part of the state, along the border of the states of Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo...
mesoregion
Mesoregion (Brazil)
Mesoregions are subdivisions of Brazilian states, grouping together various municipalities in proximity and with common characteristics. They were created by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics for statistical purposes and do not, therefore, constitute an administrative area....
of the state.
Leopoldina was the site of a wave of immigration of Jews, mostly from Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
, in the 1920s and 1930s, as detailed in a book Jews of Leopoldina, published in 2007 by the Jewish Museum of Rio de Janeiro.
The city is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leopoldina
Roman Catholic Diocese of Leopoldina
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Leopoldina is a diocese located in the city of Leopoldina in the Ecclesiastical province of Juiz de Fora in Brazil.-History:...
.