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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.
Source of name Baker Island: Michael Baker: Bermuda: Juan de Bermúdez: Bouvet Island: Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier: Clipperton Island: John Clipperton: Cocos (Keeling) Islands: Captain William Keeling: Cook Islands: Captain James Cook: Falkland Islands: Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland: Gibraltar: Tariq ibn Ziyad (from Jabal ...
This is a summary of country name etymologies. Bharat – original name for India, derived from either Dushyanta's son Bharata or Rishabha's son Bharata [1] Bolivia – Simón Bolívar; Cambodia – Kambu Svayambhuva; Colombia – Christopher Columbus (after the Italian version of his name, Cristoforo Colombo) Cook Islands – Captain James Cook
YouTubers are people mostly known for their work on the video sharing platform YouTube. The following is a list of YouTubers for whom Wikipedia has articles either under their own name or their YouTube channel name. This list excludes people who, despite having a YouTube presence, are primarily known for their work elsewhere.
Nation-building is a long evolutionary process, and in most cases the date of a country's "formation" cannot be objectively determined; e.g., the fact that England and France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the fact that England is not now a sovereign state (having passed sovereignty to Great ...
Santa Cruz del Islote (Spanish for: Santa Cruz of the Islet or Holy Cross of the Islet) is an artificial island located off the coast of Bolívar Department in Colombia, close to Tolú and Coveñas. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is a part of the Archipelago of San Bernardo . [ 4 ]
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The politics of clientelism in Colombia: Democracy and the state (Routledge, 2017). Murillo, Mario A., and Jesus Rey Avirama. Colombia and the United States: war, unrest, and destabilization (Seven Stories Press, 2004). Phelan, John Leddy. The People and the King: The Comunero Revolt in Colombia, 1781. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1978.