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The earliest settlers, termed Archaic or Ortoiroid, are believed to have settled Trinidad and Tobago from actual Venezuela at northeastern South America around 4000 BC. Twenty-nine Archaic sites have been identified, mostly in south Trinidad and Tobago; this includes the 7,000-year-old Banwari Trace site which is the oldest discovered human ...
The Saga of the Companies: A History of the Merikin Settlers in Trinidad. Plain Vision. ISBN 978-0991059447. Kamminga, Caitlyn; Walters, Adam (2016). River of Freedom. Plain Vision. ISBN 978-0997166408. "The Merikins: Free Black Settlers 1815–1816". NALIS Research. National Library of Trinidad and Tobago. 2016. Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. (2007).
With the formation of the West Indies Federation in 1958, the Williams administration acquired more direct policy control over Trinidad and Tobago. [3]: 202–233 In 1958, a Department of Tobago Affairs was created, headed by a permanent secretary. In 1962, Trinidad and Tobago became an independent nation.
Trinidad and Tobago, [a] officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean.Comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with numerous smaller islands, it is located 11 kilometres (6 nautical miles) northeast off the coast of Venezuela, 130 kilometres (70 nautical miles) south of Grenada, and west of Barbados.
The British brought African slaves to Trinidad and Tobago. [5] The first Europeans to discover and settle in Trinidad and Tobago were the Spanish. [6] Trinidad was originally a Spanish colony and was under Spanish rule until the British took hold of Trinidad in 1797. [7] The French and the English later colonized the islands.
The Ortoiroid people were the second wave of human settlers of the Caribbean who began their migration into the Antilles around 2000 BC. [1] [2] They were preceded by the Casimiroid peoples (~4190-2165 BC). They are believed to have originated in the Orinoco valley in South America, migrating to the Antilles from Trinidad and Tobago to Puerto Rico.
The most influential single cultural factor in Trinidad and Tobago is Carnival, brought to Trinidad by French settlers from Martinique in the later part of the 18th century. Originally the celebration was confined to the elite, but it was imitated and adapted by their African slaves and, after the abolition of slavery in 1838, the practice ...
The Chinese community in Trinidad and Tobago traces its origin to the 12 October 1806 arrival of the ship Fortitude carrying a group of Chinese men recruited in Macau, Penang and Calcutta. [1] This was the first organised settlement of Chinese people in the Caribbean , preceding the importation of Chinese indentured labour by over 40 years. [ 2 ]