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2. Spanish Town - Wikipedia

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   Spanish Town is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and British capital of Jamaica from 1534 until 1872. The town is home to numerous memorials, the national archives , and one of the oldest Anglican churches outside England (the others are in Virginia ...

3. Saint Catherine Parish - Wikipedia

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   Jamaica's emancipation Square can be found in Spanish Town. This is the only Georgian square in Jamaica. Kings House and the House of Assembly on the west and east sides, respectively, were erected in 1762. The Courthouse was built in 1819 and used as a chapel and armory with the Town Hall upstairs.

4. List of National Heritage Sites in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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   1 Reference Map of Jamaica. 2 Clarendon. 3 Hanover. 4 Kingston. 5 Manchester. 6 Portland. 7 St Andrew. ... Spanish Town to Old Harbour main road; Spanish Town ...

5. List of cities and towns in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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   The following is a list of the most populous settlements in Jamaica. Definitions Kingston, capital of Jamaica Montego Bay The following definitions have been used: City: Official city status on a settlement is only conferred by Act of Parliament. Only three areas have the designation; Kingston when first incorporated in 1802 reflecting its early importance over the then capital Spanish Town ...

6. Parishes of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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   Spanish Town: 1,192.4 516,218 10: Saint Mary: Port Maria: 610.5 ... Jamaica Parishes, a concise description of the parishes in Jamaica. Maps of the parishes of Jamaica

7. Cartography of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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   Map of Jamaica: Benedetto Bordone: A very simple map of Jamaica from Bordone's Isolario (The Book of Islands), printed in Venice in 1528. 2: 1562: Isola Cuba Nova: Girolamo Ruscelli: Fragment showing Jamaica from an early map of Cuba in Ruscelli's Atlas, probably the 1562 edition, published in Italy. [2] 4: 1572: Jamaica: Tomaso Porcacchi

8. Middlesex County, Jamaica - Wikipedia

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   Jamaica's three counties were established in 1758 to facilitate the holding of courts along the lines of the British county court system. [2] Middlesex, the middle of the three, was named after an English county of the same name. It was chosen in Jamaica presumably because of its central position. [2] Spanish Town was its county town. [2]

9. Colony of Santiago - Wikipedia

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   The Taino referred to the island as "Xaymaca," but the Spanish gradually changed the name to "Jamaica." [12] In the so-called Admiral's map of 1507, the island was labeled as "Jamaiqua"; and in Peter Martyr's first tract from the Decades of the New World (published 1511—1521), he refers to it as both "Jamaica" and "Jamica."