The British West Indies (BWI) were colonised British territories in the West Indies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat...
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The West Indies Federation, also known as the West Indies, the Federation of the West Indies or the West Indian Federation, was a short-lived political...
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Indies and the Dutch East Indies. In the West Indies, the Spanish West Indies, the Dutch West Indies, the French West Indies, the British West Indies...
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overseen by the British Caribbean Currency Board (BCCB). It was the official currency used by the West Indies Federation. The British West Indies dollar was...
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represented the British colonies that would later form the West Indies Federation plus British Guiana. The last series the West Indies played before the...
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emancipation of the British West Indies refers to the abolition of slavery in Britain's colonies in the West Indies during the 1830s. The British government passed...
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The term British West Indies refers to the former English and British colonies and the present-day overseas territories of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean...
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the West Indies. In 1915 the British Army formed a second West Indies regiment from Caribbean volunteers who had made their way to Britain. Initially...
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The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, is a public university system established to serve the higher...
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BWIA West Indies Airways Limited, known locally as "Bee-Wee" and formerly as British West Indian Airways and BWIA International Airways, was the flag carrier...
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the British West Indies). It was originally formed in the early 1920s as the West Indies Cricket Board of Control, but changed its name to West Indies Cricket...
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American West Indies British West Indies Danish West Indies Dutch West Indies List of governors general of the French Antilles Spanish West Indies Swedish...
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The region known as the British West Indies included British Guiana on the South American mainland, British Honduras in Central America, Bermuda, The...
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The Danish West Indies (Danish: Dansk Vestindien) or Danish Virgin Islands (Danish: Danske Jomfruøer) or Danish Antilles were a Danish colony in the Caribbean...
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Athletes from the West Indies Federation competed under the name Antilles (ANT), renamed to British West Indies (BWI) by the IOC, at the 1960 Summer Olympics...
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1607 to 1783. These colonies were formally known as British America and the British West Indies immediately prior to thirteen of the colonies seceding...
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West Indies Associated States was the collective name for a number of islands in the Eastern Caribbean whose status changed from being British colonies...
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which historically formed the British West Indies. It consists of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada...
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West India Company may refer to: Danish West India Company, (1659–1776), Danish-Norwegian chartered company, also active in the slave trade Dutch West...
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the Spanish Empire, The Indies was the designation for all its overseas territories and was overseen by the Council of the Indies, founded in 1524 and based...
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of any West Indies nation. Some West Indian people reserve this term for citizens or natives of the British West Indies only, to the exclusion of not just...
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The West India Regiments (WIR) were infantry units of the British Army recruited from and normally stationed in the British colonies of the Caribbean...
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The British West Indies Championships was an annual track and field competition between nations involved in the West Indies Federation and several other...
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British Windward Islands group. On 3 January 1958, all islands except the Virgin Islands were absorbed into the West Indies Federation. The British Leeward...
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Bridgetown (redirect from Bridgetown, British West Indies)
of Sir William Courten was at St. James Town. Bridgetown is a major West Indies tourist destination, and the city acts as an important financial, informatics...
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The East Indies (or simply the Indies) is a term used in historical narratives of the Age of Discovery. The Indies broadly refers to various lands in...
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Trinidad and Tobago (redirect from Trinidad, British West Indies)
during British rule) made Trinidad one of the less populated colonies of the West Indies, with the least developed plantation infrastructure. The British had...
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Chinese Caribbean people (section British West Indies)
restaurants and laundries. The Chinese indentured servants who entered the British West Indies in the middle and late nineteenth century formed a marginal but distinct...
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Grenada (redirect from Grenada, British West Indies)
Grenadian Creole French: Gwenad, [ɡweˈnad]) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The southernmost of the Windward Islands...
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British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies. It was located on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has...
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