British Guiana
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british-guiana-204-2462411
title:
British Guiana
text:
British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies. It was located on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana. The first known Europeans to encounter Guiana were Sir Walter Raleigh, an English explorer, and his crew.
Raleigh published a book entitled The Discovery of Guiana, but this mainly relates to the Guayana region of Venezuela. The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle there, starting in the early 1
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
British colony from 1814 to 1966
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Guiana
date created:
2003-03-20T22:24:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T20:58:07Z
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