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Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata

LC control no.n 88244682
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Geographic headingProvincias Unidas del Río de la Plata
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Geographic subdivision usageProvincias Unidas del Río de la Plata
Variant(s)Provincias Unidas en Sud-América
United Provinces in South America
United Provinces of Río de la Plata
Río de la Plata (United Provinces)
Províncias Unidas do Rio da Prata
Rio da Prata (United Provinces)
Provincias del Río de la Plata
See alsoArgentina
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Río de la Plata (Viceroyalty)
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Found inManifiesto del Congreso General constituyente a los pueblos de la Republica Argentina, 1826 (name not given)
NUC pre-1956 NA 0389027 (Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata; on this 1826 publication the Congreso General Constituyente is stated to be "de las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata")
LC manual authority cd. for Argentine Republic (hdg.: Argentine Republic; among variants: Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata, Provincias Unidas en Sud-América, United Provinces in South America, Rio de la Plata (United Provinces))
Silva, L.M. de L. e. Guerra com as Províncias Unidas do Rio da Prata, 1956: t.p. (Provincías Unidas do Rio da Prata)
Gran encic. Argentina, 1956: v. 1, p. 248 (Full discussion of name of Argentina; Constitution of 1826 first made official the name República Argentina, though some form of "argentino" had long been in literary use to refer to the area/country/people; from 1811 to Dec. 1826 the name was Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata; variants: Provincias del Río de la Plata, Provincias Unidas en Sud América, Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata en Sud América; good bibliography of sources for official names of the country) v. 2, p. 407 (after the failure inia, the national government was dissolved and conduct of war and foreign affairs was assigned to the government of the Province of Buenos Aires; a new national constitution was not enacted until 1853)
Columbia encyclopedia: under Plata, Río de la (the viceroyalty Río de la Plata, roughly corresponding to present-day Argentina, was established in 1776)
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