Sobral (Ceará) 6.89

Sobral, CE
Brazil

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Sobral is a municipality in the state of Ceará, Brazil.Sobral is the fifth largest municipality of Ceará, after Fortaleza. Its economy is based on agriculture, services and some manufacturing industries. The city has two public universities (Universidade Federal do Ceará, with a medical school, computer engineering, electrical engineering, finance, economy, dentistry, psychology and teaching music) and the Universidade Estadual do Vale do Acaraú, and also has two other private colleges, Faculdade Luciano Feijão, Unopar, Ieducare, and Inta − a theological institute. The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sobral.The city became internationally known as the place where the first astronomical observation of a solar eclipse on May 29, 1919, by a team of British scientists led by Sir Frank Watson Dyson was offered as the first proof of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, which had been published in 1916. The town's "Museum of the Eclipse" celebrates this event. There is a monument at the museum marking the location of this solar eclipse, erected in honor of a planetarium in the Patrocinio Square. In recent times, the city has become the very core of the Reactionary Political Thinking in Brazil, receiving by his members the title of "The Fourth Rome", in reference to Rome(the "Aeterna Civitas"), Constantinople(The "Second Rome" and the "Most Holy City of Constantine") and Moscow("The Third Rome") and in reference to the Catholic Faith, followed by most of population.

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