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History of Argentina in maps
Argentina as it appears in 4 interactive history atlases, from 1750 to 1991: Argentina, Río de la Plata. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Argentina before it was Argentina? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History atlases — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Argentina · Industrial Revolution
A land of grassland and immigrants that prospered by feeding industrial Europe. British capital built its railways, refrigerated ships carried its frozen beef to London from the 1880s, and millions of Italian and Spanish migrants worked its farms and ports. On the eve of 1914 it was among the richest countries in the world per head, with very little heavy industry of its own.
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Agrarian economy |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Río de la Plata (mod. Argentina) · Age of Revolutions
The Río de la Plata expelled two British invasions itself (1806–07), made its May Revolution (1810) and was never reconquered — then spent decades arguing what it had made: Buenos Aires against provinces, unitarians against federalists, down to the Rosas dictatorship. Its gift to the age was San Martín: the Andes crossing, three countries freed, and the great renunciation at Guayaquil.
| Colonial possessions — the opening position | |
| Republics & revolutionary states |
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Argentina · WWI
Argentina · Cold War
| US-aligned states — the opening position |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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