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Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia News aims to support the constitutionally elected monarch of the Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia, Prince Frederic I. To raise public awareness of the historic Mapuche Kingdom, its 163 year history and its present day activities.
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THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MAPUCHE KINGDOM
The kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia was established in 1860 by the highest Lonkos of the independent Mapuche Nation including Toki Calfucurra, Lonko Kilapan and naturalised Toki (war chief) Orellie Antoine de Tounens, the first monarch of the Kingdom, as a legal defence against the impending annexation of Wallmapu (Mapuche ancestral territory) which encompasses Chile and Argentina from the Bio Bio and Colorado Rivers to the southern tip of the South American continent.
A MAPUCHE KINGDOM IN EXILE
To remove the threat to their plans of illegal occupation of Wallmapu, on 5th Jan 1862 King Orellie I was captured and imprisoned by a Chilean government agent, put on trial and later deported to France. He valiantly returned to Chile on 3 occasions to continue the resistance, but sadly died as a result of the conditions of his earlier incarceration on 17 Sept 1878 in his hometown of Tourtoirac, France. Before his death he appointed King Achilles I as his successor. The Kingdom has survived in Exile for 163 years to the present day via a chain of successive monarchs. The present day head of the Royal House Prince Frederic I of Araucania was constitutionally elected to succeed the late Prince Antoine IV.
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