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Sonsonate was formerly part of Guatemala before this point. [1] 1833-1834: A short lived Department of Tejutla was established from the districts of Metapan and Tejutla in San Salvador. [2] January 22, 1835: The Federal District of San Salvador is separated both from San Salvador department and from the State of Salvador. The remainder of San ...
The initially poorly trained Armed Forces of El Salvador (ESAF) engaged in repression and indiscriminate killings, the most notorious of which was the El Mozote massacre in December 1981. The United States supported the government, while Cuba and other Communist states supported the insurgents—now organized as the Farabundo Martí National ...
El Salvador, [a] officially the Republic of El Salvador, [b] is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. The country's population in 2024 was estimated to be 6 million according to a ...
General Carlos Ezeta. On the morning of 29 April 1894, a group of rebels and landowners, known as "the 44", captured the western Salvadoran city of Santa Ana. [12] [13] The rebels, who had arrived from exile in Guatemala, [14] captured the city's army barracks and forced Antonio Ezeta and General Jacinto Colocho, the barrack's commander, to flee the city to Coatepeque. [9]
The 1811 Independence Movement (Spanish: Movimiento de Independencia de 1811), known in El Salvador as the First Shout of Independence (Primer Grito de Independencia), [1] was the first of a series of revolts in Central America in modern-day El Salvador against Spanish rule and dependency on the Captaincy General of Guatemala.
San Salvador, El Salvador: Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador. ISSN 2307-3942. Giusto, Vicente Jorge; and Rolando Iuliano (1989). "Aportes Para Una Historia Socio-economica De El Salvador: Desde La Colonia Hasta La Crisis Del Mercado Comun Centroamericano" (in Spanish). Revista de Historia de América, no. 108: 5–71. Mexico City: Pan ...
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The Blue Room (Salon Azul) was the meeting place of the Legislature of El Salvador from 1906, and its classical architecture with Ionian, Corinthian and Roman elements is notable. The room is now called the Salvadoran Parliament in commemoration of its former purpose, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974.