Simão Dias is built on what once was a village of indigenous fugitives who had fled the north, where the Governor Luís de Brito e Almeida was busy carrying out colonizing expeditions in the sixteenth century. These indigenous peoples settled in the woods on the river Caiçá. The lands of the county are a rugged due to the presence of a range of mountains, with altitudes ranging from 200 to 750 meters. This favors the existence of a vegetation less vulnerable to droughts typical backcountry. The zones between land and Paripiranga Simão Dias, municipality of Bahia, are formed by rough terrain, where you can check for closed forests, due to the impossibility of cereal crops and pastures. In this same area, there are numerous sites where you grow fruit trees and food crops, this provided relief to the Indigeans who first inhabited this region a true oasis, opposite the backcountry. Hence the origin of several designations contained in historical documents, as "Simão Dias's Woods," Matas Coité or the "Matas of Caiçá." With the Dutch invasion in Sergipe in the mid-seventeenth century, there is the determination of farmers to hide their flocks on the banks of the Rio Real. However Braz Rabelo, owner of Bahia, who owned herds in the lands of present Itabaiana, decides to hide their cattle in the forest land by the River Caiçá. Emerge from this episode is that the historical figure of the cowboy Simão Dias, responsible for driving the cattle and the appearance of the village that would lead to cidade. Simão Dias was also the birthplace of great latinfundiários and planters bringing Mr. Martin Ferreira Matos, then one of the largest planters in the interior of Sergipe. Simão Dias passed the village category for the City on June 12, 1890, by decree of the President of the State Felisbelo Freire, arguing that it had a large population - 10,984 people, a successful business, a railroad Vila said that connected to Aracaju, as well as the existence of a newly created district. Based on these arguments the village was emancipated from the municipality of Lagarto. The railroad, which served as one of the arguments for the political emancipation of the old village, was never completed, leaving today, some excavations and foundations of bridges where would the lines, which remain in abandoned farms. The county name is a tribute to the settler dating back to the early days of the occupation of the territory Sergipe. This is Simão Dias French, who in the years 1599, 1602 and 1607, along with Christopher and Augustine Dias da Costa, by application, requested the granting of land grants in the region. The last requirement, which the codex is the Historical and Geographical Institute of Sergipe, calls "three leagues of land in picture" in Itabaiana of lands for cattle ranching. Freire Felisbelo that besides state president was also a historian says: "The land on which it is built today the village were donated to Simão Dias Fontes, Christopher and Augustine Dias da Costa.". However the thesis sustained by historian Felisbelo Freire was the target of opposition by Fr John Matos Carvalho, who had intended to honor the Honorable Sebastião da Fonseca Andrade for the construction of the temple of the current array of Santana. Father Joao de Matos took advantage of the contradictions found in various theories about the origin of the village, because the historical documents that spoke of Simão Dias, in letters of donation land grants, surnames have diversified beyond requesting allotments in different periods. Therefore, to Father John de Matos Carvalho, had the opportunity to have two historical characters with the same name. In the intention to provoke controversy and weaken the thesis Felisbelo Freire, he published a work entitled "Matas of Simão Dias," in which vehemently defends the thesis that the city would have originated thanks to the donation of their ancestral Ana Francisca Menezes. The goal was to raise doubt about the historical version, as well as to disparage figure cowboy and enhance the figure of his ancestor, donor of the land where the first chapel was built that originated the parish of Santana in Simão Dias. Simão Dias' Church Before having "status" of the village, the current council was formed as a parish by Act of February 6, 1835, breaking up the Parish of Lagarto. The chapel that motivated its creation date of 1655, as advocates historians. However the only ancient document on the subject is from 1784. Due to the progress of the government of the Province Parish fell on March 15, 1850, the decree amounted to a town by the name of Lady Anne Simão Dias. Thus, the municipality of Simão Dias, had that name since the condition of parish and village. But the name that honored its first settler remained a short time, because the intent of Father João de Matos Freire de Carvalho was reached, and on October 25, 1912, the city would become known as Annapolis, by Decree Law n 621 °. After much controversy and reactions, especially the press, the name of Simão Dias was reinstated by the Decree Law No. 533 of 7 December 1944, favored by the determination of the Federal Government, then the Getúlio Vargas, who approved the plan of IBGE, curbing the coincidence of cities with the same name. As a municipality goiano existed with the same name, and oldest, the Annapolis sergipana had to change the name. As for policy, the municipality simãodiense had a long phase of oligarchic rule, where the local government was exclusive to large landowners. The practices coronelista were present at that stage, and you can check remnants of coronelismo until the present day. However, from the 1930s, is starting to decay of large landowners in local politics, due to changes occurring as a result of the revolution, as well as the populist phenomenon developed from the 40s.
Geography
The region is located in the Drought Polygon, with average annual temperature of 24.1 °C, but in winter the temperature can vary between 9 and 18 degrees. An interesting factor is that Simão Dias is the coldest city in the Sergipe. The average precipitation of rainfall per year is 880 mm, most prevalent from March to August. The relief is represented by municipal pediplanos with occasional ridges and tabular forms, the city has many caves and caverns. The municipality comprises capoeira vegetation, scrub, grasslands and fields and traces of dirty Mata. The municipality is inserted in the river basins Vaza-Barris River and Piauí, with major rivers across the river Vaza-Barris, Jacaré rivers and Caiçá.
Economy
The region's main sources of revenue farming, livestock, poultry and mining implemented by Cal manufactures Industrial LTD located in Clover Village Tight Stones in the northeast of the city. The industrial sector is expanding with the creation of the Industrial District with four projects already confirmed in the complex: two of the mobile industry, a renovation on the tires and another with manipulation of metals, in addition to expanding the factory existing footwear.
