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Ancient relics date the island's first settlers, probably the Ciboney (a subgroup of Arawaks), back to 3,500 years ago. [citation needed] Then another group of Arawaks migrated from South America's Orinoco basin around 800 A.D. [citation needed] Because of St. Martin's salt-pans they called it "Soualiga," or "Land of Salt."
Before 2007, the French part of Saint Martin was a commune belonging to the French overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. Despite seceding from Guadeloupe in 2007 and gaining more autonomy as an overseas collectivity of France, Saint Martin has remained an outermost region of the European Union and is part of the eurozone .
The Community of Saint Martin is a public association of clerics according to pontifical law, gathering Roman Catholic priests and deacons. It was founded in 1976 by Father Jean-François Guérin , a priest from the Archdiocese of Tours (France), under the protection of Cardinal Giuseppe Siri , Archbishop of Genoa (Italy).
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Sint Maarten (Dutch pronunciation: [sɪntˈmaːrtə(n)] ⓘ) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean region of North America. [8] With a population of 58,477 [9] [2] as of June 2023 on an area of 34 km 2 (13 sq mi), it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin, while the northern 56% of the island constitutes the French ...
The history of the Jews in Sint Maarten (a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean region of North America) started before 1735, when two Jewish families already lived in Sint Maarten were most likely descendants of refugees that fled the Spanish Inquisition. [1] [2] A Jewish congregation existed by the 1780s.
Saint Martin (French: Saint-Martin; Dutch: Sint Maarten) is an island in Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles in the northeastern Caribbean, approximately 300 km (190 mi) east of Puerto Rico. The 87 km 2 (34 sq mi) island is divided roughly 60:40 between the French Republic (53 km 2 or 20 sq mi) [ 1 ] and the Kingdom of the Netherlands (34 km ...
Candes-Saint-Martin, in the Indre-et-Loire département, place where Saint Martin of Tours died; St. Martin de Clare, Nova Scotia; St Martin-in-the-Fields, an Anglican church in London; St. Martin's (disambiguation) St. Martin's Church (disambiguation) St. Martin's Day, a feast on November 11, of St Martin of Tours; Saint Martin Island ...