The Bahia de Todos os Santos (All Saints' Bay, in archaic Portuguese) is the bay where the city of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos was built. Its name expanded to include all the former province, now known as the state of Bahia, Brazil.
De Souza arrived in Bahia on the 29th of March, in 1549, and he went to work building a capital for Brazil and a place for himself to live (or for the governor-general to live and administrate from, rather).
De Souza was accompanied by a group of Jesuits intent on spreading Christianity to the heathen natives of the "new" lands.
Bahia's fortune was in the making, but it was to be a product of the sweat and blood of people who spent their lives producing and not partaking -- enslaved Africans and their descendents.
Bahia was a center of sugar cultivation from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and contains a number of historical towns, such as Cachoeira, dating from this era.
The Catholic Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Geraldo Majella Agnelo, is the Cardinal Primate of Brazil.
Bahia is bordered, in counterclockwise fashion, by Sergipe, Alagoas, Pernambuco, PiauÃ, and Maranhão to the north, Goiás and Tocantins to the west, and Minas Gerais and EspÃrito Santo to the south.
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