Yes South America
On visiting I was amazed to discover that this apparently peaceful spot spent the first 80 years post Independence fighting both their neighbours and internally (often at the same time) followed by another 80 of terrible internal conflict - all of which the outside world knows little . Luckily the last 30 or so have been peaceful. In fact the country only figures in world history because of a few days of violence which they had nothing to do with and suffered no casualties
Before Dook posts the answer here's another couple of pictures