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ARAUCANIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 321 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARAUCANIA  , the name of a large territory of

Chile, South
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America, S. of the Bio-bio
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river, belonging to the Araucanian Indians (see below) at the time of their independence of
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Spanish and Chilean authority . The loss of their
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political independence has been followed by that of the greater
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part of their territory, which has been divided up into the Chilean provinces of
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Arauco,, Bio-bio,
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Malleco and
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Cautin, and the Indians, much reduced in number, now live in the wooded recesses of the three provinces last named .

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