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	Paraguay History
		The original inhabitants of eastern Paraguay were the semi-nomadic GuaranÃ.
		After the war, Paraguay's agricultural sector was resuscitated by a new wave of European and Argentine immigrants, but political instability continued.
		Paraguay enjoyed increasing political stability until the 1993 election of Juan Carlos Wasmosy, a free-market and former member of Stroessner's faction, whose presidency inspired a disturbing number of nationwide strikes.
	www.paraguay.us /history.htm (560 words)

	History of Paraguay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pre-Columbian civilization in the fertile, wooded region that is now Paraguay consisted of numerous seminomadic, Guarani-speaking tribes of Indians, who were recognized for their fierce warrior traditions.
		Paraguay declared its independence by overthrowing the local Spanish authorities on May 14, 1811.
		History of: Argentina · Bolivia · Brazil · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Guyana · Panama · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago · Uruguay · Venezuela
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Paraguay (1082 words)

	PARAGUAY - LoveToKnow Article on PARAGUAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Paraguay proper, or the country between the Paraguay and the Paran, is traversed from north to south by a broad jrregular belt of highlands, which are known as the Cordillera Ambaya, Cordillera Urucury, andc., but partake rather of the character of plateaus, and form a continuation and outwork of the great interior plateau of Brazil.
		But the country sloping to the Paraguay, and comprising the greater part of the settled districts, is, in keeping with its proximity to the vast plains of Argentina, grassy and open, though the hills are usually covered with forest and clumps of trees are frequent in the lowlands.
		In that history the gradual development of commerce, the financial reforms in 1895, and the extension of the Paraguay Central railway after 1906, were events of far greater importance than any political movement which took place between 1870 and 1910.
	39.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PARAGUAY.htm (5049 words)

	Wikinfo \| Paraguay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lying on both banks of the Paraguay River, it borders Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the northeast and Bolivia to the northwest.
		Paraguay's highly centralised and often dictatorial government was fundamentally changed by the 1992 constitution, which provides for a division of powers.
		The Paraguayan landscape consists of grassy plains and wooded hills in the region east of Paraguay River that divides the country in two; the region west of the river, the (Gran) Chaco features mostly low, marshy plains near the river and dry forest and thorny scrub further west.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Paraguay (863 words)

	History of Paraguay
		Pre-Columbian civilization in the fertile, wooded region that is now Paraguay consisted of numerous seminomadic, Guarani-speaking tribes, who were recognized for their fierce warrior traditions.
		Paraguay declared its independence by overthrowing the local Spanish authorities in May 1811.
		In December 2001, Brazil rejected Paraguay's petition to extradite Oviedo to stand trial for the March 1999 assassination and "marzo paraguayo" incident.
	www.historyofnations.net /southamerica/paraguay.html (825 words)

	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Paraguay
		A few isolated Jews came to Paraguay from France, Switzerland, and Italy toward the end of the 19th century and merged with the native population without ever establishing a community.
		Most of them used Paraguay or their Paraguayan visas as stepping stones to Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay where immigration laws were more severe.
		Paraguay voted in 1947 for the UN Resolution on the partition of Palestine and has always been friendly to Israel.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Paraguay.html (667 words)

	History of PARAGUAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For much of the early history of the Spanish empire it is Asunción, rather than Buenos Aires, which is the colonial centre for the entire region south of Brazil.
		And it is subsequently the centre of growing colonial hostility to the missionaries, when their settlements become powerful - resulting eventually in armed raids on the missions and the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767.
		After the death of López in 1870 Paraguay acquires a constitution which remains, technically, the basis of political life in the nation until 1940.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ac48 (1001 words)

	Paraguay Travel Guide & Paraguay Map
		Paraguay's Carnival in February is liveliest in Asuncion.
		Paraguay is about the size of the State of California with approx: 5.5 million population.
		The Paraguay River divides the country into two separate regions: On the western side is the Chaco (jungle, marsh and scrub); on the eastern side is fertile, grassy farmland leading into hilly, forested country.
	www.paraguay.us (358 words)

	CHARLES BRAY's Paragua Journal
		In June 1992 a new constitution, which forbids re-election of the president, was approved as Paraguay moved towards democracy and attempted to redress such problems as the land question and a redistribution of the budget.
		In view of Paraguay’s turbulent history it is not surprising that the economy developed slowly after an initial spurt in the mid-19th century.
		Paraguay's 2.4 million voters were also choosing a vice-president, a new parliament and 178 regional governors.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/South_America/Paraguay (3374 words)

	WWW-VL: History: Paraguay History \| Asunción, Rio Paraguay, José de Francia, Gran Chaco War, Solano López
		The Republic of Paraguay; Since the Death of the Dictator Francia:
		Nicanor Duarte Frutos, President of the Republic of Paraguay and Mrs.
		RETURN TO WWW-VL: History was established as HNSource (Kansas History Gateway) on 6 March 1993.
	vlib.iue.it /history/americas/Paraguay (319 words)

	PARAGUAY: Information and History
		Climate of Paraguay is subtropical, as it is crossed by the Tropic of Capricorn.
		Paraguay standard time is UTC minus 4 hours, although it is changed to UTC minus 3 from October to March, during the Spring and Summer seasons.
		Paraguay native inhabitants, were aborigines of various tribes known as Guaranies because of their common language, when the country was first visited, about 1524 by Alejo García, an explorer who crossing the brazilian forests and the Parana river, reached what we know as Bolivia, while looking for a path to El Dorado.
	www.qsl.net /zp5yw/paraguay.htm (1393 words)

	Paraguay: history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		There were three ethnic groups in the Paraguay River basin in the 16th century: the GuaranÃs in the center and the GuaycurÃºs and PayaguÃ¡s in the Chaco region to the south.
		Meanwhile, in what is now Paraguay, the Jesuits organized a system of agricultural colonies in which the indigenous population worked the land and produced handicrafts on a communal basis.
		Paraguay continued to develop under the patriarchal governments of Gaspar RodrÃguez de Francia (El Supremo), Carlos Antonio LÃ³pez and his son, Francisco Solano LÃ³pez.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=119 (2201 words)

	Paraguay History
		The region that would become Paraguay was inhabited by a number of indigenous peoples prior to the arrival of the Europeans in the early 1500s.
		As a consequence of the War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) Paraguay was devastated: the population decimated (nearly all adult males died), tens of thousands of square miles of territory lost, and a huge debt accrued.
		In March 1999, the country was again in turmoil as the vice president was assassinated, the president impeached on charges of complicity (he fled to Brazil), and a new president installed.
	www.multied.com /NationbyNation/Paraguay/History1.html (183 words)

	Paraguay on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Paraguay is enclosed by Bolivia on the north and west, Brazil on the east, and Argentina on the south and west; Bolivia and Paraguay are the two landlocked nations of the continent.
		The eastern part of the country, between the Paraguay and Paraná rivers, where most of the population lives, is a lowland, rising in the east and north to a plateau region.
		Paraguay's main trading partners are the fellow members of Mercosur, the United States, and European Union countries.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Paraguay.asp (2474 words)

	Paraguay (03/06)
		Paraguay's highly centralized government was fundamentally changed by the 1992 constitution, which provides for a division of powers.
		Paraguay is a partner in hemispheric initiatives to improve counternarcotics cooperation, combat money laundering, trafficking in persons, and other illicit cross-border activities, and adequately protect intellectual property rights.
		Paraguay was deemed eligible in both 2004 and 2005 to participate in the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) Threshold Country Program (TCP), which helps countries improve their governance, levels of investment in their citizens, and economic freedom, so they can qualify for the MCC’s principal program.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/1841.htm (3201 words)

	The Ultimate Paraguay - American History Information Guide and Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The name "Paraguay" is derived from the Guarani words "pará", meaning "river" and "guay", meaning "this side".
		In the Chaco War of 1932-1935 invading Bolivian troops, trying to gain a port on the Paraguay river for their landlocked country, were expelled by the Paraguayan Armed Forces from most of the Chaco region.
		Paraguay's economy is very dependent on Brazil, its neighbour in the east.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Paraguay (1017 words)

	Paraguay - Gurupedia
		Alfredo Stroessner was overthrown in 1989, and, despite a marked increase in political infighting in recent years, relatively free and regular presidential elections have been held since then.
		Paraguay's highly centralised and often dictatorial government was fundamentally changed by the 1992
		Koreans, ethnic Chinese, Arabs, Brazilians, and Argentines are among those who have settled in Paraguay and they have to an extent retained their respective languages.
	www.gurupedia.com /p/pa/paraguay.htm (727 words)

	Paraguay - History
		Paraguay's authoritarianism derives from Spanish attitudes, isolation amid hostile neighbors, and political inexperience and naiveté among a population that has historically proved willing to abdicate its political rights and responsibilities.
		Paraguay was the only major country in Spanish America to undergo a major social revolution as a direct result of independence.
		Typically for Paraguay, the coup was not a bloodless affair; estimates of the number killed ranged from Rodríguez's claim of 27 to Western observers' assertions of up to 300.
	countrystudies.us /paraguay/2.htm (3832 words)

	Paraguay History & Paraguay Culture \| iExplore.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The recorded history of Paraguay starts from the first encounters between European explorers and the Guarani tribes populating the upper reaches of what are now the Parana and Paraguay rivers.
		Although democratic politics in Paraguay have more or less survived, the population is deeply disillusioned and there are signs that the rural peasantry, after decades of impoverishment, are now organizing to challenge the established order.
		Although since the early 1990s Paraguay has implemented major economic reforms centered on liberalization and deregulation of the public sector and large private monopolies, as required by its principal external creditors and donors, the economy has performed poorly in recent years.
	www.iexplore.com /dmap/Paraguay/History (1368 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Paraguay
		Historians disagree as to the true origin of the word "Paraguay", one of the most common versions being that it is a corruption of the term "Payagua", the name of an Indian tribe and "i" the Guaraní for water or river, thus "Paragua-i" or "river of the Payaguas".
		The Republic of Paraguay, with an area of about 196,000 square miles, occupies the central part of South America, bounded by Brazil to the north and east, by the Argentine Republic to the south-east and south-west, and by Bolivia to the west and north-west.
		The population of Paraguay is composed of Indians, white Europeans, a very small number of negroes, and the offspring of the mixture of the various races, among whom the Spanish-Indian predominates.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11470b.htm (1724 words)

	A short history of Paraguay
		Present-day Paraguay is populated by seminomadic Guarani-speaking tribes.
		In 1776 Paraguay becomes part of Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata.
		Through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Paraguay is characterized by chronic instability and rule by strongmen like Carlos Antonio López and his son, Francisco Solano López.
	www.electionworld.org /history/paraguay.htm (629 words)

	History of PARAGUAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Paraguay's major enterprises are nationalized; land reforms include the distribution of small holdings to veterans of the war; and steps are taken to introduce a degree of social welfare.
		Paraguay forms close links with Argentina during the Perón period, first under Federico Chávez (president from 1947 to 1954) and then in the early years of Stroessner - a caudíllo who proves himself capable of dominating Paraguay to a degree not seen since Francia and the López family.
		The real circumstance may be even less favourable to the Colorado party, which has held continuous power in Paraguay since the death of Estigarribia in 1940.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=2352&HistoryID=ac48 (867 words)

	Paraguay History
		When the smoke had settled, Paraguay had lost over 150,000 sq km (58,500 sq mi) of territory and almost a quarter of its population, including López junior.
		After the war, Paraguay's agricultural sector was resuscitated by a new wave of European and Argentine immigrants, but political instability continued.
		Paraguay enjoyed increasing political stability until the 1993 election of Juan Carlos Wasmosy, a free-market zealot and former member of Stroessner's faction, whose presidency inspired a disturbing number of nationwide strikes.
	www.donquijote.org /tourist/profiles/paises/paraguay/history.asp (652 words)

	HLAS 52 History Argentina Paraguay Uruguay
		An economic history of the post-1870 years that incorporates the results of recent research remains to be written.
		In labor history Korzeniewicz (item bi 90002712) finds more evidence that the labor force did adjust to changing labor conditions in the 1880s and 1890s, while Falcón (item bi 92007029) seeks to identify the views of the laborer on labor issues at the turn of the century.
		Contributions to Church history in the last biennium focus on the reaction of the Church to the heavy influx of immigrants and the incipient industrialization.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /hlas/hum52hist-criscenti.html (3365 words)

	History and Government, Paraguay. information about Paraguay, complete guide for Paraguay, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		History : The recorded history of Paraguay starts from the first encounters between European explorers and the Guarani tribes populating the upper reaches of what are now the Parana and Paraguay rivers.
		The territory of Paraguay was then governed as a subsidiary of the Vice-Royalty of Peru and later of Buenos Aires.
		Although democratic politics in Paraguay have more or less survived, the population is deeply disillusioned and there are signs that the rural peasantry, after decades of impoverishment, are now organising to challenge the established order.
	destinia.com /guide/the-world/south-america/paraguay/1-30008-30175/16/en (1092 words)

	History (from Paraguay) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		As Paraguay prepared to celebrate its 10th anniversary of democratic rule in February 1999, the country was in the midst of a constitutional crisis that pitted Pres.
		Located in the interior of southern South America, Paraguay is one of the smaller countries of the continent, with an area of 157,048 square miles (406,752 square kilometers).
		The principal tributary of the Paraná River, the Paraguay is the fifth largest river in South America.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-214495 (752 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Paraguay, 1536-1811
		Bolivia's), Paraguay's strategic importance diminished, and the area was neglected by Spanish authorities.
		In the 1750es, the Jesuit missions came under attack by settlers envious of their commercial success and keen on forcing the Indios protected by the missions to work for them; the missions were dissolved by force, the Jesuits expelled.
		In contrast to Argentina, in Paraguay the Indios and Mestizos continue to be the largest population group.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/samerica/paraguay15361811.html (459 words)

	Peace Corps \| World Wise Schools \| Lesson Plans \| Teacher Guides \| Paraguay
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		Paraguay's history and culture have been shaped by its geography.
	www.peacecorps.gov /wws/guides/paraguay (485 words)

	History Lesson Paraguay
		For much of its history it has distanced itself from the Latin American mainstream, and for a substantial period of this century was South America's most notorious and durable police state.
		Paraguay is a landlocked country surrounded by Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia.
		Many of Paraguay's finest attractions are just a short hop from the capital and include the weaving capital of Itaguá, where the famous ñandutí or spiderweb lace is made, and the lakeside resorts of Areguá and San Bernadino, both on Lago Ypacaraí.
	www.gypsylounge.com /x/sam/history_lesson/par.htm (2772 words)

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