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  2. History of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    American independence was assured by French naval victories in the Caribbean, but all the British islands that were captured by the French were returned to Britain at the end of the war. The French Revolutionary War enabled the creation of the newly independent Republic of Haiti .

  3. Independence of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    The Caribbean island now known as Jamaica was settled first by hunter-gatherers from the Yucatán and then by two waves of Taino people from South America. [1] Genoan explorer Christopher Columbus arrived in Jamaica in 1494 during his second voyage to the New World, [2] and claimed it for Crown of Castile.

  4. Territorial evolution of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    Barbados gains independence from the UK on November 30, 1966 . [101] Guyana achieved independence on May 26, 1966 from the UK, and became the Co-operative Republic of Guyana on February 23, 1970 – the anniversary of the Cuffy slave rebellion – with a new constitution. [102] American leave the Dominican Republic and end the military ...

  5. List of sovereign states and dependent territories in the ...

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    This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Caribbean. In a general sense, the Caribbean can be taken to mean all the nations in and around the Caribbean Sea that lie within an area that stretches from The Bahamas in the north to Guyana in the south, and Suriname in the east to Belize in the west in a general sense. This ...

  6. Spanish West Indies - Wikipedia

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    Non-Spanish Europeans immigrated to the Spanish Caribbean as well. In fact, due to white French fleeing Haiti after independence to the surrounding Hispanic Caribbean, around 18% of surnames in the Spanish Caribbean are of French origin, second highest after Spanish.

  7. Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    The Caribbean (/ ˌ k ær ɪ ˈ b iː ən, k ə ˈ r ɪ b i ən / KARR-ih-BEE-ən, kə-RIB-ee-ən, locally / ˈ k ær ɪ b i æ n / KARR-ih-bee-an; [4] Spanish: el Caribe; French: les Caraïbes; Dutch: de Caraïben) is a subregion in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies.

  8. Royal Caribbean, Carnival Cruise alter itineraries to avoid ...

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    Five Royal Caribbean International itineraries have been impacted so far, according to the line’s parent company Royal Caribbean Group: Independence of the Seas, which departed from Miami on ...

  9. Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Jamaicans achieved independence from the United Kingdom on 6 August 1962. [9] With 2.8 million people, [10] [11] Jamaica is the third most populous Anglophone country in the Americas (after the United States and Canada), and the fourth most populous country in the Caribbean. Kingston is the country's capital and largest city.