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chief buildings are those erected after 1855, when it was chosen as the capital to put an end to the rivalry between the then more important cities of See also:

Leon and See also:

Granada. They include the Palacio See also:

NATIONAL

National or See also:

government buildings, Corinthian in See also:

style, the national library and museum, an ornate See also:

RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance structure, the See also:

barracks and the See also:

general See also:

POST

post See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office. Owing to its position on the lake, and its excellent communications by rail and steamer, Managua obtained after 1855 an important export See also:

trade in See also:

COFFEE (Fr: cafe, Ger. Kaffee)

coffee, See also:

SUGAR

sugar, See also:

COCOA

cocoa and See also:

cotton, although in 1876 it was temporarily ruined by a See also:

GREAT

great inundation.

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