Province of Ais
In the year of 1601 the Spanish King commissioned a map of Florida indicating his desires for a fort to be built in Miami. On the map he indicated the land we know as Brevard county as the Province of Ais, as it was typical in those days to designate a region of specific tribal domination and generally took its name from the ruling cacique.
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