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1879); Carlos Matzenauer, _Bolivia in historischer, geographischer und
cultureller Hinsicht_ (Vienna, 1897); M.F. Soldan, _Narracion de
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des sudostlichen Boliviens," _Centralb. f. Min., Jahrg._ (1904), pp.
1-4. (A. J. L.)
HISTORY
The country now forming the republic of Bolivia, named after the great
liberator Simon Bolivar (q.v.), was in early days simply a portion of
the empire of the Incas of Peru (q.v.). After the conquest of Peru by
the Spaniards in the 16th century the natives were subjected to much
tyranny and oppression, though it must in fairness be said that much of
it was carried out in defiance of the efforts and the wishes of the
Spanish home government, whose legislative efforts to protect the
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