Flag of Salta Flag of Salta October 8 marks the day of the flag of Salta, Argentina, in recognition of the creation of the province in 1814, when Gervasio Posadas, Supreme Director of the United Provinces of Río de la Plata, issued the decree that established the creation of the Governor of Salta. That act was unrelated to the government of Tucumán and became a province, also shaped by the territory of Jujuy Province, Oran, Tarija, and Santa Maria. The design of the flag of Salta has the following components: a six-pointed star of dubious origin, similar to the Jewish Star of David,
History of Rosario population doubled again in about ten years, and yet again in less than two decades; by 1926 Rosario had 407,000 inhabitants, 47% of them foreign, many brought from Europe in the wake of World War I. Most of them were Italian, and among them, a majority from the north-western region of Liguria. In 1943 the local scholar Juan Álvarez wrote a seminal "History of Rosario", which reaffirmed the thesis of Rosario as a "self-made-city", born after the modern capitalist fashion and developed by its own people's work, in contrast with other cities (like Santa Fe) with a traditional, colonial, aristocratic