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  2. Colonial Argentina - Wikipedia

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    Colonial Argentina is designated as the period of the History of Argentina when it was an overseas territory of the Spanish Empire. It begins in the Precolumbian age of the indigenous peoples of Argentina , with the arrival of the first Spanish conqueror.

  3. History of Argentina - Wikipedia

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    These de facto dictators termed their government program the "National Reorganization Process"; and "Dirty War" (Spanish: guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (Spanish: dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina) for this period of state terrorism in Argentina [56] as part of Operation Condor.

  4. List of colonies - Wikipedia

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    3 Colonies by Asian countries. ... Map of the European Union in the world, ... Puna de Atacama (1825–1839 ceded to Argentina) ...

  5. History of South America - Wikipedia

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    1892 map of South America Animation showing geographic evolution of European colonies and breakaway states in South America, 1700 to present Contemporary political map of South America The history of South America is the study of the past, particularly the written record, oral histories, and traditions, passed down from generation to generation ...

  6. Argentina - Wikipedia

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    Argentina, [C] officially the Argentine Republic, [A] [D] is a country in the southern half of South America.It covers an area of 2,780,085 km 2 (1,073,397 sq mi), [B] making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world.

  7. List of sovereign states by date of formation - Wikipedia

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    Nation-building is a long evolutionary process, and in most cases the date of a country's "formation" cannot be objectively determined; e.g., the fact that England and France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the fact that England is not now a sovereign state (having passed sovereignty to Great ...

  8. Colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    Map of the European Colonial Period in across the World in 1492 to 1945 Overseas possessions of a nation-state A colonial empire is a state engaging in colonization , possibly establishing or maintaining colonies , infused with some form of coloniality and colonialism .

  9. Cartography of Latin America - Wikipedia

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    Cartography of Latin America, map-making of the realms in the Western Hemisphere, was an important aim of European powers expanding into the New World. Both the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire began mapping the realms they explored and settled. They also speculated on the lands that were marked terra incognita. Indigenous groups ...