The Cisplatine War (Portuguese: Guerra da Cisplatina), or First Argentine–Brazilian War (Spanish: Guerra del Brasil), was an armed conflict over an area known as Banda Oriental or "Eastern Shore" (roughly present-day Uruguay) in the 1820s between the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and the Empire of Brazil in the aftermath of the United Provinces' emancipation from Spain.
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