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Montevideo's country
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uruguay
Alternative clues for the word uruguay
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
country named for river that flows past it, which is from a native name in an extinct language, said to represent uru "bird" + guay "tail," perhaps a reference to some totemic animal. Related: Uruguayan .
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Uruguay is a station on Line 1 of Milan Metro in Milan , Italy . The underground station was opened in 1980 and is located between Via Benedetto Croce and Via Giacomo Quarenghi , near Via Uruguay It's an underground station, placed within the urban fare ...
Usage examples of uruguay.
Jesuits should be reinstated in their college in Asuncion, and that the missions should be taken from the jurisdiction of the Governors of Paraguay and placed under the control of the Governor of the River Plate, as had been previously done in the case of the other Jesuit missions beyond the Uruguay.
The constant expulsions of the Jesuits from Asuncion, the turmoils in the State, and the fact that every now and then the Indians had to take arms to defend their territory, acted most mischievously on the reductions, both in Paraguay and in those between the Parana and Uruguay.
Mamelucos took place, and Father Alfaro, who had been left in charge of the missions on the Uruguay and Parana, was shot by a Mameluco with a crossbow, and fell dead from his horse.
Christian Commonwealth of the Jesuit Missions between the Parana and Uruguay, I now address myself.
Certain it is that but a few years after their final exit from the missions between the Uruguay and Parana all was confusion.
By the treaty entered into at this marriage, seven of the most flourishing of the missions situated on the left bank of the Uruguay were ceded to Portugal in exchange for La Colonia del Sacramento on the river Plate.
Therefore, the charges against the Jesuits in Paraguay, which Cardenas first started, are with us still, and warp our judgment as to the doings of the Order in the missions of the Parana and Uruguay even until to-day.
But in the Chaco the Jesuits found conditions most different from those prevailing in their missions between the Uruguay and Parana.
At that date Francois Retz was General of the Jesuits, and on him devolved the duty of communicating the orders of the courts of Spain and Portugal to the Jesuits in the missions of the Uruguay.
Jesuit missions on the Uruguay and Parana, with all the riches of their fertile territory, and the enormous wealth which every Spaniard firmly believed the Jesuits had acquired.
The ancient enmity of the two nations has been continued in their descendants, the Brazilians and the Argentines and Uruguayans, and little by little Brazil is absorbing all the northern portion of the Republic of Uruguay.
Uruguay can declare war on Iceland, if their government decides to, and nobody can stop them with anything short of military force, if the Uruguayans are truly determined to have their war.
Although still unable to penetrate high-level Soviet ciphers, the agency had broken the cipher systems of more than forty nations, including Italy, France, the United Arab Republic, Indonesia, Uruguay, and even some Soviet satellite countries, such as Yugoslavia.
Later she discovered it had become the centerpiece for a roundup of the atrocities committed that night around the world and for the terrorist attacks in Uruguay, Venezuela, and Peru, in another Georgia and Azerbaijan, in South Africa and Israel and the Sudan, in Laos and the Philippines.
Amniar recognized it as a standard Egyptian school map of South America, A blowup of the coastal city of Punta del Este, Uruguay, was circled in red.