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iExplore | Research - English
URL: http://www.iexplore.com/dmap/Bahamas/History

iExplore is your complete travel guide for planning and booking an adventure trip to the Bahamas. Talk to our experts, read traveler reviews. Information on where to go, when to go, what to do.

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History Of The Bahamas - English
URL: http://www.keyshistory.org/bahamas.html

When Columbus became the first Bahamian "tourist," he called the inhabitants "Indians," but they called themselves Lucayans, which means "Island People." They were descendants of the Arawaks of Hispaniola. Pandora-like, Columbus opened the door to "their world."

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History of The Bahamas - English
URL: http://www.worldrover.com/history/bahamas_the_history.html

The first Royal Governor, a former pirate named Woodes Rogers, brought law and order to The Bahamas in 1718, when he expelled the buccaneers who had used the islands as hideouts.

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History and Geography of the Bahamas - English
URL: http://www.abacoguide.net/his&geo.htm

Nassau, Bahamas; old Charles Town, a pirate's haven and a tourists mecca. Excerpts from a cruising guide by Darrel Wyatt, ed. by Julius Wilensky.

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The Bahamas, Hotels, History, Cuisine and more - English
URL: http://www.bahamasgateway.com/

A guide to The Bahamas.

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History of the Bahamas - English
URL: http://www.bahama-out-islands.com/history.html

Official website of the Bahama Out Islands Promotion Board, featuring a comprehensive directory of 72 resorts.

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Bahamas Postage Stamps and Postal History - English
URL: http://www.gsu.edu/~libpjr/stamps.html

Bibliography of Bahamian Philatelic literature, list of Bahamian post offices, links to Bahamian philatelic resources (images of Bahamian stamps, links to dealers and auctions selling Bahamian stamps and postal history), community forum, want and offer list of Bahamian stamps for trading.

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Bahamas - History - English
URL: http://www.geographia.com/bahamas/bahistory.htm

Documented Bahamian history begins with the words, "Baja Mar," the name the Spanish bestowed on the islands. This term is misleading, however; it means "shallow sea," but the islands are really mountain plateaus that emerged from the Atlantic hundreds of thousands of years ago.

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World History Archives: The history of the Caribbean and Bermuda - English
URL: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43/

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