Buenos Aires
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- Names
Buenos Aires
Santa María del Buen Aire
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Founded in 1580; seat of viceroyalty of La Plata (Buenos Aires) in 1776; was blockaded by British in dispute over Uruguay 1845; drew up its own constitution & battled provinces over control of country 1854-1880.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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