Tobago (Colony)
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Name (Hebrew)
טובאגו
Name (Latin)
Tobago (Colony)
Other forms of name
Tabago (Colony)
טובגו
Type of jurisdiction
Colonies
See Also From tracing corporate name
New Walcheren
Trinidad and Tobago
Windward Islands (Jurisdiction)
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q185111
Sources of Information
- Tobago (Trinidad and Tobago). House of Assembly. Report of the Tobago House ... Dec. 31, 1986:t.p. (Tobago House of Assembly)
- The Statesman's year-book, 1990-91:p. 1199 (since 1980 Tobago has had an elected House of Assembly with limited powers of self-government)
- Wikipedia, Dec. 30, 2005Windward Islands (Windward Islands name was also used to refer to a British colony in these islands, existing between 1833 and 1960 and consisting of the islands of Grenada, St. Lucia, Saint Vincent, the Grenadines, Barbados (to 1885, when it became a separate colony), Tobago (to 1889 when it was joined to Trinidad), and Dominica (from 1940, when it was transferred from the Leeward Islands colony to the Windward Islands))
- Flags of the world website, Dec. 30, 2005(The islands included in the British colony of the Windward Islands ... When established in 1834 it consisted of Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, and Tobago. St. Lucia was added in 1838, Barbados was detached in 1885, Tobago was detached in 1889 and Dominica was added in 1940)
- Déclaration, 1665:broadside (Nous Adrian, Jean & Gelein Lampsins, Seigneurs de l'Isle & Baronnie de Tabago en l'Amérique, (appellée maintenant La nouvelle Walchre))
- translation: Nieuw Walcheren was a colony of the West India Company [Netherlands] on the south coast of the Caribbean island of Tobago; English: New Walcheren; At the Peace of Westminster (1654) the Zeelanders received rights to Tobago, which they called Nieuw Walcheren. A group of six hundred settlers led by Pieter Becquart founded the settlement of Lampsinsburg, named after the shipowners Adriaan and Cornelis Lampsins ( (Wikipedia [Dutch], February17, 2022) )
Wikipedia description:
Tobago, officially the Ward of Tobago, is an island and ward in Trinidad and Tobago. It is 35 kilometres (20 nautical miles) northeast of the larger island of Trinidad and about 160 kilometres (85 nautical miles) off Venezuela's northeastern coast. It is southeast of Grenada and southwest of Barbados.
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