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IMMIGRANTS' ARRIVAL</b>
<p align="center"> <b>B</b>y
the<b>19th century</b>, Argentina was a vast territory with a <b>low demographic
density.</b> The need to attract <b>European immigration</b> was a permanent
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While Europe was industrialized, Argentina was a <b>farming and cattle raising
country</b> which provided the old continent with <b>farming products</b> and
<b>breeding animals</b>. In turn, it received Europe’s children in search of
new horizons in a new world. <br>
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<font color="#990000"><b>Immigration in the 19th century</b><br>
<img width=15 height=19 vspace=0 hspace=0 border=0 align=BASELINE src="../iconos/b88p.gif">In
the <b>50's the first immigrant arrived</b> in Argentina coming from <b>Switzerland</b>.
This was the beginning of a process culminating in the <b>20th century</b>.
In the meantime, <b>4.5 million Europeans</b> arrived at the <b>Argentine territory</b>.
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