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The official name of the country at the time was the Republic of Colombia. [60] Historians adopted the term "Gran Colombia" to distinguish this republic from the present-day Republic of Colombia, which began using the same name in 1863. [61] Map showing results of the Adams-Onís Treaty.
Colonial Argentina is designated as the period of the History of Argentina when it was an overseas territory of the Spanish Empire. It begins in the Precolumbian age of the indigenous peoples of Argentina , with the arrival of the first Spanish conqueror.
Linguistic map of the Caribbean in CE 1500, before European colonization Between 800 and 200 BCE a new migratory group expanded through the Caribbean island: the Saladoid . [ 11 ] This group is named after the Saladero site in Venezuela , where their distinctive pottery (typically distinguished by white-on-red painted designs) was first ...
The map below is based on a wide range of antique maps for the periods shown and is intended to give a broad idea of the changes in the State of Argentina in the nineteenth century. The periods are broad and plus or minus about a decade around each date.
Map of Latin America and the Caribbean. The term Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC [1]) is an English-language acronym referring to the Latin American and the Caribbean region. The term LAC covers an extensive region, extending from The Bahamas and Mexico to Argentina and Chile.
Note that Bermuda is a member nation of the Caribbean Community, though the island nation lies in the North Atlantic Ocean, not in the Caribbean. Other than 13 Caribbean island countries, four continental mainland countries, namely Honduras, Belize, Guyana, and Suriname, have also been included in the following table (by United Nations geoscheme).
The Argentine Confederation (Spanish: Confederación Argentina) was the last predecessor state of modern Argentina; its name is still one of the official names of the country according to the Argentine Constitution, Article 35. [1]
Argentina, [C] officially the Argentine Republic, [A] [D] is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of 2,780,400 km 2 (1,073,500 sq mi), [ B ] making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil , the fourth-largest country in the Americas , and the eighth-largest country in the world.