Bank of Mozambique created Government of Mozambique took over, without compensation, the Mozambican operations of Banco Nacional Ultramarino, a Portuguese colonial bank that had been acting as the bank of issue for the colony. This became the nucleus of Bank of Mozambique. In 1977 the government also nationalized almost all banks in the country, including the Casa Bancária de Moçambique, and the Mozambican operations of Banco de Crédito, Comercial e Industrial and Banco Comercial de Angola, and merged them into Bank of Mozambique. At the same time it closed the operations of Banco de Fomento Nacional and Banco Pinto e Sotto Mayor. (The
Argentina–Uruguay border former Eastern Band of the rest of the Viceroyalty of Rio de La Plata. Depending on the presence of this river, the border between Uruguay and Argentina was not disputed. From 1815 to 1816 the government of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (Brazil before independence) tried to annex the region of the current Uruguay to Brazil. This occurred with the Brazilian victory against Uruguay during the Battle of Tacuarembó in 1820. The region was called Province of Cisplatina of already independent Empire of Brazil. It was echoed by Uruguayan supported by troops from Argentina on 25