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Montevideo
Montevideo
Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...

is the capital city of Uruguay. It may also refer to:
  • Montevideo Department
    Montevideo Department
    Montevideo is a department of Uruguay.It is by far the smallest one in area, and the most populated as well. It contains the city of Montevideo, capital of Uruguay. While most of the department is covered by the capital city, there are still smaller towns within its limits, e.g...

    , Uruguay
  • Montevideo District
    Montevideo District
    Montevideo District is one of twenty-one districts of the province Chachapoyas in Peru.-References:...

    , Peru
  • Montevideo, Virginia, a city in the United States
  • Montevideo, Minnesota
    Montevideo, Minnesota
    As of the census of 2000, there were 5,346 people, 2,353 households, and 1,444 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,190.5 people per square mile . There were 2,551 housing units at an average density of 568.1 per square mile...

    , a city in the United States
  • Montevideo skyscraper, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  • Montevideo Maru
    Montevideo Maru
    The Montevideo Maru was a Japanese auxiliary ship that was sunk in World War II, resulting in the drowning of a large number of Australian prisoners of war and civilians being transported from Rabaul...

    , a Japanese auxiliary vessel sunk in the Second World War
  • Montevideo units
    Montevideo units
    Montevideo units are a method of measuring uterine performance during labor. They were created in 1949 by two physicians, Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia and Hermogenes Alvarez, from Montevideo, Uruguay....

    , a means of assessing contractions during labor
  • Montevideo Convention
    Montevideo Convention
    The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States was a treaty signed at Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 26, 1933, during the Seventh International Conference of American States. The Convention codified the declarative theory of statehood as accepted as part of customary international...

    , an international treaty which sets out the nature, rights and duties of statehood
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