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The islands that became the Spanish West Indies were the focus of the voyages of the Spanish expedition of Christopher Columbus in America. Largely due to the familiarity that Spaniards gained from Columbus's voyages, the islands were also the first lands to be permanently colonized by Europeans in the Americas.
The Danish West Indies became an insular area of the U.S., called the United States Virgin Islands. Between 1958 and 1962, the United Kingdom re-organised all their West Indies island territories (except the British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas) into the West Indies Federation. They hoped that the Federation would coalesce into a single ...
Diego Columbus (Spanish: Diego Colón) was a Lucayan Taíno taken from the island of Guanahani and adopted by Christopher Columbus. Diego's Lucayan name is unknown, but he was an inhabitant of Guanahani (later San Salvador) in October of 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall during his first voyage. During the fleet's stay at the island ...
Establishments in the Spanish West Indies (3 C) H. Hispaniola (7 C, 5 P) P. Royal governors of Puerto Rico (11 P) Spanish Puerto Rico (6 C, 21 P) S.
The 76,192-square-kilometre (29,418 sq mi) island is divided into two separate sovereign countries: the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic (48,445 km 2 (18,705 sq mi) to the east and the French and Haitian Creole–speaking Haiti (27,750 km 2 (10,710 sq mi) to the west. The only other divided island in the Caribbean is Saint Martin, which is ...
The Lesser Antilles contains the northerly Leeward Islands and the southeasterly Windward Islands as well as the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela. The Lucayan Archipelago (consisting of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands), though a part of the West Indies, is generally not included among the Antillean islands. [2]
The West India Interest [6] was formed in the 1740s, when the British merchants joined with the West Indian sugar planters. The British and West Indies shared profits and needs. This organization was the first sugar-trading organization which had a large voice in Parliament.
The Spanish Indies may refer to the following: . The Spanish West Indies (1492–1898) Colony of Spain that covered most of the Caribbean; The Spanish East Indies (1565–1901) The overseas territories of the Spanish Empire that covered the Philippine Islands and other parts of the East Indies