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The history of Bolivia involves thousands of years of human habitation. Lake Titicaca had been an important center of culture and development for thousands of years. The Tiwanaku people reached an advanced level of civilization before being conquered by a rapidly expanding Inca Empire in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Bolivia's defeat by Paraguay in the Chaco War of 1932–1936 marked a turning point in the modern history of Bolivia.Significant loss of life and territory discredited the traditional ruling classes, while service in the army produced stirrings of political awareness among the indigenous people.
Tarija is mostly distributed to Bolivia [2] [3] Peruvian-Bolivian War of 1841-1842 (1841–1842) Bolivia Peru: Indecisive, both sides claimed victory [4] Signature of the Treaty of Puno; Withdrawal of the Peruvian troops from the Bolivian territory. Bolivian withdrawal from southern Peru. [5] Pérez Rebellion (1862) Bolivia: General Gregorio ...
Bolivia, [c] officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, [d] is a landlocked country located in central South America.It is a country with the largest geographic extension of Amazonian plains and lowlands, mountains and Chaco with a tropical climate, valleys with a warm climate, as well as being part of the Andes of South America and its high plateau areas with cold climates, hills and snow ...
Having lost its entire coastal territory, Bolivia withdrew from the war, while the war between Chile and Peru continued for three more years. Bolivia officially ceded the coastal territory to Chile only twenty-four years later, under the 1904 Treaty of Peace and Friendship. [6] The War of the Pacific was a turning point in Bolivian history.
Bolivia and the United States: A limited partnership (University of Georgia Press, 1999). Morales, Waltraud Q. A brief history of Bolivia (2nd ed. Infobase Publishing, 2010) online. Ribando, Clare, ed. "Bolivia: Political and economic developments and relations with the United States." (Congressional Research Service, 2006) online.
The country's former President Evo Morales, a longtime leader of coca growers’ unions who famously threw the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency out of Bolivia in 2009, used his office to develop ...
The history of Bolivia from 1964 to 1982 is a time of periodic instability under various military dictators. On November 4, 1964, power passed from the elected leader of the Bolivian National Revolution, Víctor Paz Estenssoro, to a military junta under vice-president General René Barrientos.