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/bəˈhɑːməz/
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*known officially as “the commonwealth of the bahamas’*
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(“the bahamas” is an ‘archipelagic state’ within the ‘lucayan archipelago’)
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(it consists of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the ‘Atlantic Ocean’, and is located north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the US state of Florida, and east of the ‘Florida Keys’)
(the capital is ‘Nassau’ on the island of ‘New Providence’)
(the designation of “the Bahamas” can refer either to the country or to the larger island chain that it shares with the ‘Turks and Caicos Islands’)
(as stated in the mandate/manifesto of the ‘Royal Bahamas Defence Force’, the Bahamas territory encompasses 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space)
(‘The Bahamas’ is the site of Columbus’ first landfall in the ‘New World’ in 1492)
(at that time, the islands were inhabited by the ‘Lucayan’, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking ‘Taino’ people)
(although the spanish never colonised ‘The Bahamas’, they shipped the native Lucayans to slavery in ‘Hispaniola’)
(the islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, when English colonists from ‘Bermuda’ settled on the island of ‘Eleuthera’)
(‘The Bahamas’ became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy)
(after the ‘American War of Independence’, the Crown resettled thousands of American Loyalists in the Bahamas; they brought their slaves with them and established plantations on land grants)
(africans constituted the majority of the population from this period)
(the slave trade was abolished by the british in 1807; slavery in the Bahamas was abolished in 1834)
(‘The Bahamas’ became a haven for freed African slaves; the Royal Navy resettled Africans here liberated from illegal slave ships, American slaves and Seminoles escaped here from Florida, and the government freed American slaves carried on United States domestic ships that had reached the Bahamas due to weather)
(today, the descendants of slaves and free Africans make up nearly 90% of the population; issues related to the slavery years are part of society)
(‘The Bahamas’ became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1973, retaining the British monarch, then and currently ‘Queen Elizabeth II’, as its head of state)
(in terms of ‘gross domestic product per capita’, ‘The Bahamas’ is one of the richest countries in the ‘Americas’ (following the ‘United States’ and ‘Canada’), with an economy based on ‘tourism’ + ‘finance’)
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*12 OCTOBER 1492*
(christopher columbus’s expedition makes landfall in ‘the caribbean’, specifically in ‘the bahamas’)
(the explorer believes he has reached ‘the indies’)
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👈👈👈☜*“THE LUCAYAN ARCHIPELAGO”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥