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Rondônia

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Rondônia, Brazil Guaporé A state established as a territory in 1943 and renamed in 1956 after Marshal Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (1865–1958), an explorer who did much to protect the Native Americans by founding the Indian Protection Service in 1910. The territory was upgraded to a state in 1982.

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Rondônia

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Rondônia , state (1996 pop. 1,132,692), 93,839 sq mi (243,043 sq km), NW Brazil, on the border with Bolivia. Pôrto Velho is the capital. Rain forests still cover much of the state, although by the 1980s deforestation had begun to emerge as a serious environmental problem in Rondônia.

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Rondônia

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Rondônia •Campania, Catania, pannier •apnoea •Oceania, Tanya, Titania •biennia, denier, quadrennia, quinquennia, septennia, triennia •Albania, balletomania, bibliomania, crania, dipsomania, egomania, erotomania, kleptomania, Lithuania, Lusitania, mania, Mauritania, megalomania, miscellanea, monomania, nymphomania, Pennsylvania, Pomerania, pyromania, Rainier, Romania, Ruritania, Tasmania, Transylvania, Urania •Armenia, bergenia, gardenia, neurasthenia, proscenia, schizophrenia, senior, Slovenia •Abyssinia, Bithynia, curvilinear, Gdynia, gloxinia, interlinear, Lavinia, linear, rectilinear, Sardinia, triclinia, Virginia, zinnia •insignia • Sonia • insomnia • Bosnia •California, cornea •Amazonia, ammonia, Antonia, Babylonia, begonia, bonier, Catalonia, catatonia, Cephalonia, Estonia, Ionia, Laconia, Livonia, Macedonia, mahonia, Patagonia, pneumonia, Rondônia, sinfonia, Snowdonia, valonia, zirconia •junior, petunia •hernia, journeyer

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