Charcas
Americannoun
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The image of a roan horse on the vacant lot at Serrano and Charcas?
From Time Magazine Archive
The High Court at Charcas summoned him to appear before its tribunal at once, and to give his reasons for the expulsion of the Jesuits and his appointment of himself as Governor of Paraguay.
From South America by Koebel, W. H. (William Henry)
San Luis Potosí and Southern Coahuila.—For some time the region of Charcas, now called San Luis Potosí, was a sort of No-man's-land between the westward, eastward, and northward moving columns of frontiersmen.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
BOLIVIA, an inland republic of South America, once a part of the Spanish vice-royalty of Peru and known as the province of Charcas, or Upper Peru.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
Eastward of Peru in the vast mountainous region of Charcas, on the very heights of South America, the royalists still found a refuge.
From Hispanic Nations of the New World; a chronicle of our southern neighbors by Shepherd, William R. (William Robert)
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