Obligado

Obligado is a town in the Itapúa department of Paraguay. Commonly known as the Capital City of Cooperativism or Industrial Capital City of Itapúa.

History

The Argentinian Pastor Servando Obligado owned the lands that would later be Obligado. The city was founded on May 25, 1912 by German colonists who bought the ground.

It was upgraded to District in Juny 20, 1955.

Obligado, with Hohenau and Bella Vista, form a productive unit called "Colonias Unidas".

References

Argentine (Paris Métro)

Argentine (French pronunciation: ​[aʁʒɑ̃tin]) is a station on Paris Métro Line 1 on the boundary between the 16th and the 17th arrondissements of Paris in the western area of the city.

Location

Like most stations on Line 1, Argentine station lies on an east-west route through Paris from Vincennes in the east to La Défense in the west. Specifically, the station is underneath Avenue de la Grand Armée, the extension of the Champs-Élysées west of the Arc de Triomphe, at its intersection with Rue d'Argentine. In relation to the rest of the city, Argentine straddles the border between the 16th and 17th arrondissements of Paris.

History

Argentine station opened on 1 September 1900, six weeks after the opening of the initial segment of Line 1 between Porte de Vincennes and Porte Maillot, as part of the gradual opening of stations on the inaugural line of the Métro.

Upon its opening, the station was known as Obligado, the name of the nearby cross-street at the time, in turn named after the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado, an Anglo-French victory over the Argentine Confederation in 1845 commanded by Juan Manuel de Rosas.