Cisplatine Province
Cisplatine Province
Cisplatine Province, the buffer territory of the eastern bank of the Uruguay River. In 1821 a weak and subservient Uruguayan congress formally annexed the Banda Oriental to Portuguese Brazil as the Cisplatine Province. Between 1825 and 1828 the region was a battleground between Argentina and Brazil. Argentina regarded the area as its east bank; Brazil considered it the Cisplatine Province, or Estado Cisplatino. Great Britain, anxious to enlarge its trade in the Plata region, persuaded Brazil to end the conflict. The Cisplatine Province was recognized as the independent state of Uruguay in 1828.
See alsoBoundary Disputes; British-Latin American Relations.
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