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  2. Colombia–Germany relations - Wikipedia

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    In 1889, Leo S. Kopp, a native of Offenbach, Germany, founded Sociedad Kopp's German Brewery, now known as Bavaria Brewery., the largest brewery in Colombia. In 1919, the German-Colombian Airline (Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transportes/SCADTA) was founded as the second oldest airline in the world still in existence.

  3. German colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    In this map of German colonies, yellow marks Klein-Venedig and red the Prussian colonies, some of them in the Caribbean. Klein-Venedig ("Little Venice"; also the etymology of the name "Venezuela") was the most significant part of the German colonization of the Americas between 1528 and 1546.

  4. History of Colombia - Wikipedia

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    Colombia has offered humanitarian support with food and medicines to mitigate the shortage of supplies in Venezuela. [44] Colombia's Foreign Ministry said that all efforts to resolve Venezuela's crisis should be peaceful. [45] Colombia proposed the idea of the Sustainable Development Goals and a final document was adopted by the United Nations ...

  5. Timeline of Colombian history - Wikipedia

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    This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (August 2023) Part of a series on the History of Colombia Timeline Pre-Columbian period pre-1499 Spanish colonization 1499–1550 New Kingdom of Granada 1550–1717 Viceroyalty of New Granada 1717–1819 United Provinces of New Granada 1810–1816 Gran Colombia 1819–1831 ...

  6. History of colonialism - Wikipedia

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    There were deadly battles between colonizing states and revolutions from colonized areas shaping areas of control and establishing independent nations. During the 20th century, the colonies of the defeated central powers in World War I were distributed amongst the victors as mandates , but it was not until the end of World War II that the ...

  7. European colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The Norse explored and colonized areas of Europe and the North Atlantic, colonizing Greenland and creating a short-term settlement near the northern tip of Newfoundland circa 1000 AD. However, due to its long duration and importance, the later colonization by the European powers involving the continents of North America and South America is ...

  8. Territorial evolution of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    The Colombian rebellion finally succeeded in 1819 when the territory of the Viceroyalty of New Granada and the Captaincy General of Venezuela became the Republic of Gran Colombia organized as a federation of Ecuador, today's Colombia and Venezuela (Panama was part of Colombia). The official name of the country at the time was the Republic of ...

  9. Colombia - Wikipedia

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    Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest.