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    1862, the Settlement of Belize in the Bay of Honduras was declared a British colony called British Honduras, and the Crown's representative was elevated...
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  • the value of the British Honduran dollar relative to the pound. Protests ensued which led to a devaluation of the British Honduran dollar to a value...
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    the top and bottom. British Honduras obtained a coat of arms on 28 January 1907, which formed the basis of the badge used on British ensigns. The coat of...
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    the Grenadines, British Guiana (now Guyana) and Trinidad and Tobago. Other territories included Bermuda, and the former British Honduras (now Belize). The...
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    Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador...
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    the largest city in Belize. It was once the capital of the former British Honduras. According to the 2010 census, Belize City has a population of 61,461...
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    availability of logwood, which also brought British settlers. Belize was not formally termed the "Colony of British Honduras" until 1862. It became a crown colony...
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    the Falkland Islands and British Honduras. Britain also gained control of several colonies, including Trinidad and British Guiana, following the 1815...
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  • Confederate Settlements in British Honduras are a cultural and ethnic sub-group in Belize, formerly known as the colony of British Honduras. They are the descendants...
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    Honduras was inhabited by many indigenous peoples when the Spanish arrived in the 16th century. The western-central part of Honduras was inhabited by the...
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    The 1931 British Honduras hurricane was the deadliest hurricane in the history of British Honduras (known as Belize since 1973), killing an estimated...
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    formally adopting the Statute of Westminster. British ensign British Empire British Blue Ensign British Red Ensign Flag of the United Kingdom Flag of...
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    ministers, from the establishment of the position of First Minister of British Honduras in 1961 to the present day. The office of prime minister is established...
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    Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras (now Belize). The country is bordered to the west...
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    Belize (category Former British colonies)
    the Gulf of Honduras. European exploration was begun by English settlers in 1638. Spain and Britain both laid claim to the land until Britain defeated the...
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  • This is a list of viceroys in British Honduras and Belize from the start of British settlement in the area until the colony's independence in 1981. Until...
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  • (1897-1905) British Honduras Volunteers (1905-1916) British Honduras Territorial Force (1916-1928) British Honduras Defence Force (1928-1944) British Honduras Home...
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    Afro-Hondurans or Black Hondurans are Hondurans of Sub-Saharan African descent. Research by Henry Louis Gates and other sources regards their population...
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    Hondurans (Spanish: Hondureños; also called Catrachos) are the citizens of Honduras. Most Hondurans live in Honduras, although there is also a significant...
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    a group of islands off the coast of Honduras. Collectively, the islands form one of the 18 departments of Honduras. The departmental capital is Coxen Hole...
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    independence of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in Africa in 1980 and British Honduras (now Belize) in Central America in 1981, the last major colony that...
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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 Bahamas...
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    and the Turks and Caicos Islands becoming British overseas territories. British Guiana and British Honduras held observer status within the West Indies...
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    retain ties with Britain, while Guyana achieved independence in 1966. Britain's last colony on the American mainland, British Honduras, became a self-governing...
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  • Frederic Mackenzie Maxwell, 1896–1907 (afterwards Chief Justice of British Honduras, 1907) Henry Eugene Walter Grant, 1902–1903 (acting) C.R. Davies, c...
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  • Barranquitas, Puerto Rico Honduras, Cidra, Puerto Rico British Honduras, the previous name of Belize Honduras de la Sierra, Chiapas, Mexico This disambiguation...
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  • The union was founded in 1939 by Antonio Soberanis Gómez, as the British Honduras Workers and Tradesmen's Union. In 1934, he had formed the Unemployed...
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    Belizean–Guatemalan territorial dispute (category Use British English from June 2022)
    (formerly known as British Honduras) and Guatemala, neighbours in Central America. During the late 1600s and throughout the 1700s, Britain and Spain signed...
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    independence of the British colony, then known as British Honduras. George Price was born in Belize City in what was then British Honduras, to William and...
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  • about 1862. In August 1860, Burr received a letter from James Grant of British Honduras (known today as Belize), offering land for sale in the Stann Creek...
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