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    Essequibo region escalated into a crisis in 2023. The region is controlled by Guyana but is claimed by Venezuela. The dispute dates back many years and the current...
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    Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana. It is situated in Demerara-Mahaica, region 4, on the Atlantic Ocean coast, at the mouth of the Demerara...
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  • The history of Guyana begins about 35,000 years ago with the arrival of humans coming from Eurasia. These migrants became the Carib and Arawak tribes,...
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  • Stabroek was the old name of Georgetown, Guyana, between 1784 and 1812, and was the capital of Demerara. Stabroek is currently a ward in the centre of...
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    Berbice (redirect from Berbice, Guyana)
    Berbice (/bɜːrˈbiːs/) is a region along the Berbice River in Guyana, which was between 1627 and 1792 a colony of the Dutch West India Company and between...
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    Guianas, on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana. It was a colony of the Dutch West India Company between 1745 and 1792 and...
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    British Guiana gained independence as Guyana and in 1970 it became a republic as the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. It was located around the lower course...
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  • Official estimate "Year-end and Mid-year Population Estimates by Sex, Guyana: 1992 to 2019". Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 28 May 2023. Official estimate...
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    regional trade disputes. The secretariat headquarters is in Georgetown, Guyana. CARICOM has been granted the official United Nations General Assembly observer...
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    (1829–1891), journalist and President of the unrecognised Republic of Independent Guyana. Pierre Cormorèche [fr] (1924–1999), politician Communes of the Ain department...
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    in Venezuela, are also considered culturally Caribbean. French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, and Suriname are often included as parts of the Caribbean due to...
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    Capybara (category Mammals of Guyana)
    eaten while other meats are generally forbidden. After several attempts a 1784 Papal bull was obtained that allowed the consumption of capybara during Lent...
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    Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Puerto Rico (which despite being a United States territory...
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    1958). "The Great Powers and the Russian Annexation of the Crimea, 1783–1784". The Slavonic and East European Review. 37 (88). Modern Humanities Research...
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    Empire (1638–1663, 1733, 1784–1878) Swedish colonies in the Americas New Sweden (1638–1655) Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy (1784–1878) Guadeloupe (1813–1814)...
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    Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and north Roraima, Brazil; Caribbean islands of...
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    in 1775, then the Spanish Navy bombarded Algiers in 1783 and 1784. For the attack in 1784, the Spanish fleet was to be joined by ships from such traditional...
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    (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. pp. 32, 38. ISBN 978-0-1955-1784-2. Manne, Robert (25 April 2007). "The war myth that made us". The Age. Archived...
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    Zeelanders had founded a colony on the banks of the River Berbice in present-day Guyana with plantations that were worked by African slaves. In 1763, the slaves...
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    edu. Archived from the original on 3 June 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2013. "1784–1800 – The United States and the Haitian Revolution". History.state.gov....
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    pilots of the Guyana Defence Force. Beverley Drake of Guyana is the first female pilot of the Guyana Airways Corporation. Barbara Adams of Guyana becomes the...
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  • painter Tamara De Anda (b. 1983, Mexico), social wr. Andaiye (1942–2019, Guyana), non-f. wr. & activist Annemette Kure Andersen (b. 1962, Denmark), poet...
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    common to all the Arawak tribes scattered along the coasts from Suriname to Guyana. Upper Paraguay has Arawakan-language tribes: the Quinquinaos, the Layanas...
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    over their trade. Between 1687 and 1731, Egypt experienced six famines. The 1784 famine cost it roughly one-sixth of its population. Egypt was always a difficult...
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    finally forced its termination. The plague epidemics ravaged Tunisia in 1784–1785, 1796–1797 and 1818–1820. In the 19th century, the rulers of Tunisia...
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    Francisco Hurtado, Governor of the province of Chiloé, conducted a census in 1784 and found the population consisted of 26,703 inhabitants, 64.4% of whom were...
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    country in northern South America. It borders French Guiana to the east, Guyana to the west, Brazil to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north. Suriname...
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    1973. Other outlying member states include the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and the Republic of Suriname in South America, and Belize in Central America...
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    actuellement à Louvain ne peut être considérée comme continuant celle qui existait en 1457, ces deux établissemens ayant un caractère bien distinct, puisque l'université...
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    of cities in Colombia List of cities in French Guiana List of cities in Guyana List of cities in Suriname List of cities in Venezuela List of cities in...
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