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from: The Bahamas
Bahamas officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas,
is an island country consisting of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean; north of Cuba and Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti); northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands; southeast of the U.S. state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. Its capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The designation of "Bahamas" can refer to either the country or the larger island chain that it shares with the Turks and Caicos Islands. As stated in the mandate/manifesto of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, the Bahamas territory encompasses 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space. Originally inhabited by the Lucayan, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taino people, the Bahamas were the site of Columbus' first landfall in the New World in 1492. Although the Spanish never colonized the Bahamas, they shipped the native Lucayans to slavery in Hispaniola. The islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, when English colonists from Bermuda settled on the island of Eleuthera.
BahamasBaamas ou ,oficialmente Comunidade das Bahamas,
é um país insular constituído por mais de 3 000 ilhas, cayos e ilhéus no oceano Atlântico, a norte de Cuba e da ilha Espanhola (Haiti e República Dominicana), a noroeste do território ultramarino britânico das ilhas Turcas e Caicos e a sudoeste do estado estadunidense da Flórida. A sua capital é Nassau na ilha de Nova Providência. Geograficamente, as Baamas situam-se no mesmo arquipélago que Cuba, Espanhola e Turcas e Caicos. Originalmente habitadas pelos Lucaianos, um ramo dos Taínos, falantes do aruaque, as Baamas foram o local do primeiro desembarque de Cristóvão Colombo no Novo Mundo em 1492. Apesar de os espanhóis nunca terem colonizado as ilhas, transportaram os lucaianos como escravos para a ilha Espanhola. As ilhas permaneceram quase despovoadas entre 1513 e 1648, quando colonos britânicos da Bermuda se estabeleceram na ilha de Eleutéria.