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Colonia del Sacramento

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Colonia del Sacramento (formerly the Portuguese Colónia do Sacramento) is a city in southwestern Uruguay, by the Río de la Plata, facing Buenos Aires, Argentina. [1]

57 relations: Argentina, Azulejo, Baltazar García Ros, Banda Oriental, Basílica del Santísimo Sacramento, Colonia del Sacramento, Bastion, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Cisplatina, Cisplatine War, City, Colonia Airport, Colonia Department, Coordinated Universal Time, Departments of Uruguay, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, First Cevallos expedition, First Treaty of San Ildefonso, Fog, Fray Bentos, Free-trade zone, Frost, Gaucho, Humid subtropical climate, Independence of Brazil, Institute of technology, José de Garro, José Gervasio Artigas, Köppen climate classification, Liga Federal, Marta Canessa, Montevideo, Pedro Antonio de Cevallos, Pelotas, Peter II of Portugal, Plaza de toros Real de San Carlos, Portuguese conquest of the Banda Oriental, Portuguese language, Portuguese Restoration War, Río de la Plata, Route 1 (Uruguay), Siege of Colonia del Sacramento, Spanish–Portuguese War (1735–37), Spanish–Portuguese War (1776–77), Telephone numbers in Uruguay, Textile, Treaty of Lisbon (1668), Treaty of Madrid (13 January 1750), Treaty of Paris (1763), Treaty of Utrecht, ..., UNESCO, United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, Uruguay, Villa Soriano, Void (law), War of the Spanish Succession, World Heritage site. Expand index (7 more) »

Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.

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Azulejo

Azulejo (or, or, from the Arabic al zellige زليج) is a form of Spanish and Portuguese painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework.

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Baltazar García Ros

Baltazar García Ros (Valtierra, Spain, ca. 1670 - Buenos Aires, Río de la Plata, September 18, 1740) was a Navarrese-Spanish soldier and administrator.

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Banda Oriental

Banda Oriental, or more fully Banda Oriental del Uruguay (Eastern Bank), was the name of the South American territories east of the Uruguay River and north of Río de la Plata that comprise the modern nation of Uruguay; the modern state of Brazil Rio Grande do Sul; and some of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

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Basílica del Santísimo Sacramento, Colonia del Sacramento

The Basilica of the Holy Sacrament (Basílica del Santísimo Sacramento) is a Roman Catholic parish church in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.

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Bastion

A bastion or bulwark is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina.

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Cisplatina

Cisplatina Province or Cisplatine Province (Província Cisplatina) was a Brazilian province in existence from 1821 to 1828 created by the Luso-Brazilian annexation of the Oriental Province.

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Cisplatine War

The Cisplatine War, also known as the Argentine-Brazilian War, was an armed conflict over an area known as Banda Oriental or the "Eastern Strip (roughly present-day Uruguay) in the 1820s between the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (as Argentina was then called) and the Empire of Brazil in the aftermath of the United Provinces' independence from Spain.

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City

A city is a large human settlement.

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Colonia Airport

Laguna de los Patos International Airport is the airport serving Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.

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Colonia Department

Colonia is a department of southwestern Uruguay.

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Coordinated Universal Time

No description.

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Departments of Uruguay

Uruguay consists of 19 departments.

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Federico Mayor Zaragoza

Federico Mayor Zaragoza (born 27 January 1934 in Barcelona) is a Spanish scientist, scholar, politician, diplomat, and poet.

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First Cevallos expedition

The First Cevallos expedition was a military action between September 1762 and April 1763, by Spanish colonial forces led by Don Pedro Antonio de Cevallos, Governor of Buenos Aires, against Portuguese colonial forces in the Banda Oriental area during the Seven Years' War.

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First Treaty of San Ildefonso

The First Treaty of San Ildefonso was signed on 1 October 1777 between the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire.

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Fog

Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of minute water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface.

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Fray Bentos

Fray Bentos is the capital city of the Río Negro Department, in south-western Uruguay.

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Free-trade zone

A free-trade zone (FTZ) is a specific class of special economic zone.

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Frost

Frost is the coating or deposit of ice that may form in humid air in cold conditions, usually overnight.

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Gaucho

A gaucho or gaúcho is a skilled horseman, reputed to be brave and unruly.

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Humid subtropical climate

A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.

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Independence of Brazil

The Independence of Brazil comprised a series of political and military events that occurred in 1821–1824, most of which involved disputes between Brazil and Portugal regarding the call for independence presented by the Brazilian Empire.

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Institute of technology

An institute of technology (also: university of technology, polytechnic university, technikon, and technical university) is a type of university which specializes in engineering, technology, applied science, and sometimes natural sciences.

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José de Garro

Marcos José de Garro Senei de Artola, nicknamed "El Santo" ("The Saint"), (1623–1702) was a Spanish military man who served in many positions in the colonial administration of the Spanish Empire.

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José Gervasio Artigas

José Gervasio Artigas Arnal (June 19, 1764 – September 23, 1850) was a national hero of Uruguay, sometimes called "the father of Uruguayan nationhood".

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Liga Federal

The Federal League or League of Free Peoples (Spanish: Liga Federal or Liga de los Pueblos Libres) was an alliance of provinces in what is now Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil that aimed to establish a confederal organization for the state that was emerging from the May Revolution in the war of independence against the Spanish Empire.

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Marta Canessa

Marta Canessa is a Uruguayan historian.

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Montevideo

Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay.

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Pedro Antonio de Cevallos

Pedro Antonio de Cevallos Cortés y Calderón, also spelled Ceballos (29 June 1715 – 26 December 1778), was a Spanish military Governor of Buenos Aires between 1757 and 1766, and the first Viceroy of the Río de la Plata in 1776.

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Pelotas

Pelotas is a Brazilian city and municipality (município), the third most populous in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.

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Peter II of Portugal

Dom Pedro II (26 April 1648 – 9 December 1706), nicknamed "the Pacific", was the King of Portugal and the Algarves from 1683 until his death, previously serving as regent for his brother King Afonso VI from 1668 until his own accession.

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Plaza de toros Real de San Carlos

Plaza de toros Real de San Carlos is a bull ring in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.

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Portuguese conquest of the Banda Oriental

The Portuguese conquest of the Banda Oriental was the armed-conflict that took place between 1816 and 1820 in the Banda Oriental, for control of what today comprises the whole of the Republic of Uruguay, the northern part of the Argentine Mesopotamia and southern Brazil.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

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Portuguese Restoration War

The Portuguese Restoration War (Guerra da Restauração; Guerra de Restauración portuguesa) was the name given by nineteenth-century Romantic historians to the war between Portugal and Spain that began with the Portuguese revolution of 1640 and ended with the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668.

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Río de la Plata

The Río de la Plata ("river of silver") — rendered River Plate in British English and the Commonwealth and La Plata River (occasionally Plata River) in other English-speaking countries — is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay and the Paraná rivers.

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Route 1 (Uruguay)

Route 1 is a national route of Uruguay.

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Siege of Colonia del Sacramento

The Siege of Colonia del Sacramento was a successful siege in 1704 by Spanish forces of the Portuguese colonial town of Colonia del Sacramento, opposite Buenos Aires and now in the nation of Uruguay.

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Spanish–Portuguese War (1735–37)

The Spanish-Portuguese War between 1735-1737 was fought over the Banda Oriental, roughly present-day Uruguay.

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Spanish–Portuguese War (1776–77)

The Spanish-Portuguese War was fought between 1776 and 1777 over the border between Spanish and Portuguese South America.

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Telephone numbers in Uruguay

Uruguay's calling code is +598.

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Textile

A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres (yarn or thread).

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Treaty of Lisbon (1668)

The Treaty of Lisbon of 1668 was a peace treaty between Portugal and Spain, concluded at Lisbon on 13 February 1668, through the mediation of England, in which Spain recognized the sovereignty of Portugal's new ruling dynasty, the House of Braganza.

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Treaty of Madrid (13 January 1750)

The Spanish–Portuguese treaty of 1750 or Treaty of Madrid was a document signed in the Spanish capital by Ferdinand VI of Spain and John V of Portugal on 13 January 1750, to end armed conflict over a border dispute between the Spanish and Portuguese empires in South America in the vicinity of the Uruguay River, an area known as the Banda Oriental (now comprising parts of Uruguay, Argentina and the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).

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Treaty of Paris (1763)

The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Great Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War.

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Treaty of Utrecht

The Treaty of Utrecht, which established the Peace of Utrecht, is a series of individual peace treaties, rather than a single document, signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht in March and April 1713.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves

The United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves was a pluricontinental monarchy formed by the elevation of the Portuguese colony named State of Brazil to the status of a kingdom and by the simultaneous union of that Kingdom of Brazil with the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of the Algarves, constituting a single state consisting of three kingdoms.

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Uruguay

Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a sovereign state in the southeastern region of South America.

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Villa Soriano

Villa Soriano is a town in the Soriano Department of Uruguay.

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Void (law)

In law, void means of no legal effect.

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War of the Spanish Succession

The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was a European conflict of the early 18th century, triggered by the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonia_del_Sacramento

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