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  • Thumbnail for Jesuit missions among the Guaraní
    The Jesuit missions among the Guaraní were a type of settlement for the Guaraní people ("Indians" or "Indios") in an area straddling the borders of present-day...
    32 KB (3,773 words) - 17:25, 19 June 2024
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    The Guarani are a group of culturally-related indigenous peoples of South America. They are distinguished from the related Tupi by their use of the Guarani...
    35 KB (4,111 words) - 09:59, 30 July 2024
  • Mendoza. Father Gabriel's mission is depicted as a place of sanctuary and education for the Guaraní. Moved by the Guaraní's acceptance, Mendoza wishes...
    29 KB (2,463 words) - 06:18, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Guaraní War
    the War of the Seven Reductions, took place between the Guaraní tribes of seven Jesuit Missions and joint Spanish-Portuguese forces. It was a result of...
    11 KB (1,166 words) - 06:27, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tupi–Guarani languages
    Tupi–Guarani (/tuːˈpiː ɡwɑˈrɑːni/ /ɡwɑˈɾɑ-/; Tupi-Guarani: [tuˈpi ɡwaɾaˈni];pronunciation) is the most widely distributed subfamily of the Tupian languages...
    50 KB (1,121 words) - 07:54, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Guarani language
    Guarani (/ˌɡwɑːrəˈniː, ˈɡwɑːrəni/ GWAR-ə-NEE, GWAR-ə-nee), specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guarani (avañeʼẽ [ʔãʋãɲẽˈʔẽ] "the people's...
    47 KB (4,087 words) - 23:43, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for VBTP-MR Guarani
    The VBTP-MR Guarani (Portuguese Viatura Blindada Transporte de Pessoal – Média sobre Rodas; "Armored Personnel Carrier Vehicle – Medium Wheeled Type")...
    23 KB (1,997 words) - 00:46, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Classical Guarani
    Guarani language. It was spoken in the region of the thirty Jesuit missions among the Guarani (current territories of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil). The Jesuits...
    12 KB (1,054 words) - 17:17, 9 November 2023
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    San Ignacio Miní (category Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis)
    Bandeirantes, the mission moved in 1632, and did not settle in its current location until 1696. It was called San Ignacio Miní (minor in Guaraní) to distinguish...
    7 KB (713 words) - 04:58, 31 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Paraguayan harp
    and Guarani musical cultures. Derived from the classical angular harp, introduced during the Spanish colonization in the Jesuit Guarani Missions. It is...
    8 KB (1,211 words) - 17:38, 24 May 2024
  • The Guaraní language belongs to the Tupí-Guaraní branch of the Tupí linguistic family. There are three distinct groups within the Guaraní subgroup, they...
    43 KB (4,326 words) - 11:30, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ava Guaraní people
    Ava Guaraní are an Indigenous peoples formerly known as Chiriguanos or Chiriguano Indians who speak the Ava Guarani and Eastern Bolivian Guaraní languages...
    21 KB (2,822 words) - 17:06, 28 June 2024
  • "Ave Maria Guaraní" – 2:51 "Brothers" – 1:32 "Carlotta" – 1:21 "Vita Nostra" – 1:54 "Climb" – 1:37 "Remorse" – 2:46 "Penance" – 4:03 "The Mission" – 2:49...
    9 KB (840 words) - 21:28, 13 June 2024
  • Aragon, in 1608. Before completing his studies he volunteered for the Guarani missions of Paraguay, and sailed from Lisbon in company with the veteran missionary...
    2 KB (187 words) - 03:30, 25 July 2024
  • The Tupi people, a subdivision of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic families, were one of the largest groups of indigenous peoples in Brazil before its colonization...
    26 KB (2,748 words) - 04:53, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rio Grande do Sul
    century Jesuit missions or reductions (aldeias) to the Guaraní Indians. Of all the ruins left behind by the vanished Guarani Missions, the most significant...
    111 KB (11,968 words) - 23:11, 30 July 2024
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    mouth of the Acaray river in the 1630s, and forcibly brought to a Guarani Mission. That group of Aché captives all perished from disease within a few...
    57 KB (8,314 words) - 16:14, 18 July 2024
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    Sepé Tiaraju (category Brazilian people of Guarani descent)
    Sepé Tiaraju (c. 1723 – 7 February 1756) was a Guaraní leader in the Jesuit reduction mission of São Luiz Gonzaga. Sepé Tiaraju led the fight against the...
    5 KB (485 words) - 08:47, 26 July 2024
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    Itatín (category Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis)
    related to the Guaraní who lived to their south in Paraguay. In 1631, the Jesuit Order of the Roman Catholic church began founding missions in Itatín but...
    7 KB (908 words) - 14:52, 16 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Villarrica, Paraguay
    Franciscan missionaries helped the town's stabilization, founding the Guaraní Mission of Itapé The Franciscan friars in an effort of educating the population...
    31 KB (3,144 words) - 11:08, 26 July 2024
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