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• chile — /chil ee/, n. chili. * * * Chile Introduction Chile Background: A three year old Marxist government was overthrown in 1973 by a dictatorial military regime led by Augusto PINOCHET, who ruled until a freely elected president was installed in 1990 …   Universalium

• Chile — Chilean, adj., n. /chil ee/; Sp. /chee le/, n. a republic in SW South America, on the Pacific Coast. 14,508,168; 286,396 sq. mi. (741,765 sq. km). Cap.: Santiago. * * * Chile Introduction Chile Background: A three year old Marxist government was… …   Universalium

• Peru — Peruvian /peuh rooh vee euhn/, adj., n. /peuh rooh /, n. 1. Spanish, Perú /pe rddooh /. a republic in W South America. 24,949,512; 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Cap.: Lima. 2. a city in N central Indiana. 13,764. 3. a city in N Illinois. 10 …   Universalium

• Latin America, history of — Introduction       history of the region from the pre Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th century, the 19th century wars of independence, and developments to the end of World War II.… …   Universalium

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• Pacific, War of the — (1879–83) Conflict involving Chile, Bolivia, and Peru over disputed territory on the mineral rich Pacific coast. National boundaries in the region were not definitively established prior to the conflict, and in the 1870s Chile controlled nitrate… …   Universalium

• Contemporary Bolivian history — 19th century= During the presidency of Mariscal Andrés de Santa Cruz, Bolivia enjoyed the most glorious period of her history with great social and economic advancement. Santa Cruz got involved in internal Peruvian political problems and… …   Wikipedia

• German-Chilean — Infobox Ethnic group group = flagicon|Germany German Chilean flagicon|Chile caption = Notable German Chileans: Rodolfo Armando Philippi • Hans Helfritz • Miguel Kast • Patricio Manns poptime = 500,000Fact|date=November 2007 popplace = Viña del… …   Wikipedia

• Guggenheim, Daniel — ▪ American industrialist and philanthropist born July 9, 1856, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. died Sept. 28, 1930, Port Washington, N.Y.  American industrialist and philanthropist who oversaw the expansion of his family s vast mining empire in the early …   Universalium

• CALLA`O —    (32), a port in Peru, 7 m. from Lima, with a fine harbour the safest on the coast, if not in the world; its prosperity depends on trade, which is less than it was before the annexation of the nitrate fields to Chile …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• salar — I. səˈlär noun (plural salar or salars) Usage: usually capitalized 1. : a Moslem people of Chinese Turkestan speaking a Turkic dialect 2. : a member of the Salar people II. adjective …   Useful english dictionary