However, it was only conquered more than a decade later with the supposed extinction of the Captaincy of Itamaracá in the second half of the 18th century, since it was originally part of French America and its fiefdoms, such as Forte Velho and Baía da Traição.

[1] The Captaincy of Itamaracá was extinguished by Portuguese law in 1574, after a revolt articulated by French brazilwood smugglers against the bellicose Potiguaras on the banks of the Paraíba River, thus destroying Diogo Dias's Tracunhaém mill.

[1] To subdue the rebellion, at the beginning of the following year, an expedition was sent from the Captaincy of Pernambuco under the command of Fernão da Silva, general ombudsman, and Royal Treasury Provider, without success.

He joined forces with the Captain-Major of the Paraíba captaincy, Frutuoso Barbosa, and organized a new expedition (1584), which founded the first Royal City in Brazil under the Philippine Dynasty: "Filipeia de Nossa Senhora das Neves".

The definitive peace with the Potiguaras, then allied with the English, the Bretons, and the Normans (the latter two peoples from present-day France), was only achieved in 1599, after an epidemic of smallpox (which until then did not exist in the Americas) decimated the native population without immunity to such viruses.

The river Paraíba lost its name São Domingos without official explanation and was renamed with the Tupi term Parahyba, which is how the natives already knew it before the European set foot on the territory.