| | Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Paraguay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The city eventually became the centre of a Spanish colonial province, as well as a primary site of the Jesuit (Roman Catholic) missions and settlements in South America in the 18th century. |
| | In the disastrous War of the Triple Alliance (1865–1870), Paraguay lost two-thirds of its adult male population and 140,000 km² of its territory. |
| | Paraguay's highly centralised and often dictatorial government was fundamentally changed by the 1992 constitution, which provides for a division of powers. |
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