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    Sint Eustatius (/juːˈsteɪʃəs/ yoo-STAY-shəs, Dutch: [sɪnt øːˈstaː(t)sijʏs] ), known locally as Statia (/ˈsteɪʃə/ STAY-shə), is an island in the Caribbean...
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    500 slaves remained. In Suriname, slave holders demanded compensation from the Dutch government for freeing slaves, whilst in Sint Maarten, abolition of...
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  • (NL) Saint Barthélemy (FR) Sint Eustatius (NL) Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Martin (FR, NL) Saint Martin (FR) Sint Maarten (NL) Saint Vincent...
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    Rosario Silayan †  Puerto Rico – Agnes Tañón Correa  Réunion – Myrose Hoareau  Sint Maarten – Lucie Marie Davic  Scotland – Linda Gallagher  Singapore – Ann...
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    is one of three special municipalities in the Caribbean; the others are Sint Eustatius and Saba. 80% of Bonaire's inhabitants are Dutch nationals, and...
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    from neighboring colonies; a ship from Suriname had already arrived, and reinforcements from Barbados and Sint Eustatius soon followed. Cuffy then ordered...
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    population of Suriname, and spoken as a second or third language in the polyglot Caribbean island countries of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. All these...
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    was dissolved. Referendums were held on each island. As a result, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (the BES islands) were incorporated as special municipalities...
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     Sint Maarten Angela Huggins  South Africa Cynthia Classen  South Korea Chung Kwang-hyun  Spain Olga Fernández  Sri Lanka Genevieve Parsons  Suriname Peggy...
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  • Saint Martin in 2000 and 2006 are from the Dutch part of the island, i.e., Sint Maarten. "Beauty queen renamed". Taipei Times. Taipei, Taiwan. MediaCorp...
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  • They include locations in Hato, Savonet, St. Barbara, Santa Maria, Groot Piscadera, Groot and Klein Sint Joris, and San Juan. Some of the plantations...
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    Playa Lagun Playa Porto Marie Playa Santa Cruz Playa Santa Barbara Seaquarium Beach Sint Michielsbaai Vaersenbaai Westpunt The island has diverse architectural...
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  • settle date debate". CBC News. Retrieved 25 September 2017. Collishaw, Barbara (2002). "FAQs on Writing the Date". Terminology Update. Government of Canada...
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  • Dutch colony of Surinam, a date now celebrated as Ketikoti in independent Suriname. 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins. 1867 – The...
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    Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey,...
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  • village in the world" by sources such as China Daily. 3  Bolivia Santa Barbara Potosí Department 4,770 15,600 4  India Karzok Ladakh 4,570 15,000 Hikkim...
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  • ranking of the new teams. At the same time, the British Virgin Islands and Sint Maarten (originally in League C, pot 3) were confirmed to have withdrawn...
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    McDaniel, pp 798–800, describing Manning, Frank (1977). Sally F. Moore; Barbara G. Myerhoff (eds.). "Cup March and Carnival: Secular Rites of Revitalization...
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    Digital Library of the Caribbean Portals: Caribbean United Kingdom Solow, Barbara L. (Autumn 1998). "Review". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 29 (2):...
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    Antilles, the Turks and Caicos, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Brazil, Suriname and French Guiana. There were an estimated 881,500 people of Haitian ancestry...
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  • Brazil  Seychelles  Sikkim (1877–1914 and 1962–1967)  Sikkim (1914–1962)  Sint Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands  South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region, Ethiopia...
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    Gheyn (1767 - 1777) Utrecht: Dom Tower. 50 bells. Venlo: Sint Martinustoren. 54 bells. Venray: Sint Petrus' Banden-toren. 50bells. Waalre: Provincial Memorial...
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  • starts flying five times a week from Miami to Suriname". September 7, 2021. "American Airlines drops Suriname again as destination -". December 7, 2022....
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  • Nicholas Sint-Agatha-Berchem – Agatha of Sicily Sint-Amands – Saint Amand Sint-Gillis-Waas – Saint Giles Sint-Laureins – Lawrence of Rome Sint-Martens-Latem...
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  • the Netherlands--Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, and the three special municipalities of Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius. Nagjuttuuq 997 Island part...
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  • Stuart (1996). The peoples of Africa: an ethnohistorical dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-313-27918-8. Williams, Victoria...
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    shallow channel called The Narrows. The islands of Sint Eustatius, Saba, Saint Barthélemy, Saint-Martin/Sint Maarten and Anguilla lie to the north-northwest...
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  • vocal group) SWZ – (s) Swaziland (ISO 3166 trigram) SX – (i) Sonic X SXM (s) Sint Maarten (ISO 3166 trigram) (i) Stream X-Machine SY – (s) Syria (ISO 3166...
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  • Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 0874368375. Marley, David F. (2005). "Bahamas". Historic...
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  • Netherland 1630 Paramaribo Paramaribo Suriname Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Suriname. 1630 Speightstown Saint Peter Barbados...
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