See also:

• SUCRE, or CHUQUISACA

SUCRE, or See also:

• CHUQUISACA

CHUQUISACA  , a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

• BOLIVIA

Bolivia, See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

• CHUQUISACA

Chuquisaca and nominal capital of the See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic, 46 m . N.E. of See also:

• POTOSI

Potosi in 19° 2' 45" S., 65° 17' W . Pop . (1900), 20,967; (1906, estimate), 23,416, of whom many are See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians and cholos . The city is in an elevated valley opening southward on the narrow See also:

• RAVINE

ravine through which flows the Cachimayo, the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• NORTHERN

northern tributary of the Pilcomayo . Its See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation, 8839 ft., gives it an exceptionally agreeable See also:

• CLIMATE

climate . There are fertile valleys in the vicinity which provide the city's markets with See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit and vegetables, while the vineyards of See also:

• CAMARGO, MARIE ANNE DE CUPIS DE (1710-1770)

Camargo (formerly known as Cinti), in the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern See also:

• PART

part of the department, See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply See also:

• WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine and See also:

• SPIRITS

spirits of excellent quality . The city is laid out regularly, with broad streets, a large central plaza and a public See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden, or See also:

• PROMENADE

promenade, called the prado . Among its builcliags are the See also:

• CATHEDRAL

cathedral, dating from 1553 and once noted for its See also:

• WEALTH

wealth; the See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president's See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace and halls of See also:

• CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

congress, which are no longer occupied as such by the See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government; the cabildo, or See also:

• TOWN

town-See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

hall; a See also:

• MINT
• MINT (Lat. moneta; Mid. Eng. mynt)

mint dating from 1572; the courts of See also:

• JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice, and the university of See also:

• SAN

San See also:

• XAVIER, FRANCISCO DE (1506-1552)

Xavier, founded in 1624, with faculties of See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine and See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology . There is a See also:

• PRETTY

pretty See also:

• CHAPEL

chapel called the " Rotunda," erected in 1852 at the See also:

• LOWER

lower end of the prado by President Belzfi, on the spot where an See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt had been made to assassinate him . See also:

• SUCRE, or CHUQUISACA

Sucre is the seat of the See also:

• ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop of La See also:

• PLATA, RIO DE LA, or RIVER PLATE

Plata and Charcas, the See also:

• PRIMATE (from Low Lat. primas=one who held the first place, primas partes)

primate of Bolivia . It is not a commercial town, and its only See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note-worthy manufacture is the " See also:

• CLAY (from O. Eng. claeg, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Klei)
• CLAY, CASSIUS MARCELLUS (1810-1903)
• CLAY, CHARLES (1801–1893)
• CLAY, FREDERIC (1838–1889)
• CLAY, HENRY (1777–1852)

clay dumplings " which are eaten with potatoes by the inhabitants of the Bolivian uplands .

Although the capital of Bolivia, Sucre is one of its most isolated towns because of the difficult See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of the roads leading to it . It is reached from the Pacific by way of Challapata, a station on the See also:

• ANTOFAGASTA

Antofagasta & See also:

• ORURO

Oruro railway . The See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish town, according to Velasco, was founded in 1538 by See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain Pedro Angules on the site of an See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• VILLAGE

village called Chuquisaca, or Chuquichaca (See also:

• GOLDEN

golden See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge), and was called Charcas and See also:

• CIUDAD

Ciudad de la Plata by the Spaniards, though the natives clung to the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original Indian name . It became the capital of the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of Charcas, of the comarca of Chuquisaca, and of the bishopric of La Plata and Charcas, and in See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time it became the favourite See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence and See also:

• HEALTH

health resort of the See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich mine-owners of Potosi . The bishopric See also:

• DATES

dates from 1552 and the archbishopric from 1609 . In the latter See also:

• YEAR

year was created the Real Audiencia de la Plata y Charcas, a royal See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of justice having See also:

• JURISDICTION
• JURISDICTION, CRIMINAL LAW, DIVORCE

jurisdiction over Upper See also:

• PERU
• PERU (apparently from Biru, a small river on the west coast of Colombia, where Pizarro landed)

Peru and the La Plata provinces of that time . Sucre was the first city of Spanish See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AMERICA

America to revolt against Spanish See also:

• RULE

rule—on the 25th of May 1809 . In 1840 the name Sucre was adopted in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of the patriot See also:

• COMMANDER

commander who won the last decisive See also:

• BATTLE

battle of the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war, and then became the first president of Bolivia . The city has suffered much from See also:

• PARTISAN, or PARTIZAN

partisan strife, and the removal of the government to La Paz greatly diminished its importance .