Banda Oriental, a state of South America, originally settled by Spaniards from Buenos Ayres, claimed by Brazil, but, after a war, made in 1825 into the independent state of Banda Oriental del Uruguay—i.e. 'Eastern Bank of the Uruguay,' now usually called simply Uruguay (q.v.).
Banda Oriental
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 703
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