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West Indies, crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north.
- The Pre-Columbian Period
West Indies - Pre-Columbian, Islands, Atlantic: Hispanic...
- Colonialism
West Indies - Colonialism, Caribbean, Islands: England was...
- Decolonization
West Indies - Decolonization, Islands, Caribbean: Radical...
- Leeward Islands
Leeward Islands, an arc of West Indian islands that...
- Windward Islands
Windward Islands, a line of West Indian islands constituting...
- Blue Mountains
Blue Mountains, range in eastern Jamaica that extends for...
- The Pre-Columbian Period
29 maj 2018 · The West African system acknowledged a supreme divine power but found its more personalized expression in the various deities responsible for the harmonious operation of the natural world. In the West Indies the major deities included Shango, Ogun, and Eshu (in Trinidad) and Legba, Erzulie, and Damballah (in Haiti).
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago. [5]
The Caribbean (also known as the West Indies) is a region of the Americas consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands, and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of North America, east of Central America, and to the northwest of South America.
For the full article, see West Indies. West Indies, Islands, enclosing the Caribbean Sea. Lying between southeastern North America and northern South America, they may be divided into the following groups: the Greater Antilles, including Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico; the Lesser Antilles ...
West Indies - Colonialism, Caribbean, Islands: England was the most successful of the northwestern European predators on the Spanish possessions. In 1623 the English occupied part of Saint Christopher (Saint Kitts), and in 1625 they occupied Barbados.
west indies, the. An ambiguous traditional term used in its widest geographical sense to refer to the islands of the Greater and Lesser Antilles excluding the Bahamas , and more narrowly to cover ex-British possessions (excluding Guyana and Belize on the mainland).
