Bahamas
or officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas
slands and 661 cays and 2387 islets (rocks). The islands lie in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti) and north-west of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the south-east of the United States of America (the closest to Florida). A total area of 13939 km 2 (5382 square miles and thus slightly larger than the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined) and an estimated population of 330,000 and its capital, Nassau. Geographically located Bahamas in the same chain of islands of Cuba and Hispaniola and the Turks and Caicos Islands, usually suggest naming the Bahamas to the Commonwealth and not the geographic chain.
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Bahamas,The most beautiful places in the world
Bahamas,The most beautiful places in the world
The original
inhabitants of the Bahamas are the Tainos Alerawakjon. Islands were also the first foothold of Columbus in the New World in 1492. Although the Spaniards never Colonial Istamra but they transferred the island's population, indigenous to the island of Hispaniola as slaves. Abandoned most of the islands between (1513-1650) when it was settled by British colonists
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Bahamas became a Crown Colony in 1718, where the British end of piracy. After the American War of Independence moved thousands of loyal to Britain and enslaved Africans to the Bahamas and set up the farm economy. The slave trade was abolished in the British Empire in 1807, where many Africans settled survivors liberated from slave ships by the Royal Navy in the Bahamas during the nineteenth century. Abolished slavery itself in 1834 as a people of African descent the bulk of the population of the Bahamas today.
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The origin of the name
"Bahamas" is unclear. Could return to the Spanish language ("shallow seas") or to nominate indigenous to the island of Grand Bahama "Ba - ha -" any (
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