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- West_Indies abstract "The West Indies is a region of the Caribbean Basin and North Atlantic Ocean that includes the many islands and island nations of the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago. After the first of the voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas, Europeans began to use the misnomer West Indies to differentiate that region from the Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia).From the 17th through the 19th century, the European colonial territories of the West Indies were the French West Indies, British West Indies, the Danish West Indies, the Netherlands Antilles (Dutch West Indies), and the Spanish West Indies. By extension, some formerly Danish and Spanish islands are now collectively known as the American West Indies; however, this appellation is of recent origin.In 1916, Denmark sold the Danish West Indies to the United States for US $25 million in gold, as per the Treaty of the Danish West Indies. The Danish West Indies became an insular area of the US, called the United States Virgin Islands.Between 1958 and 1962, the United Kingdom reorganised all their West Indies island territories (except the British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas) into the West Indies Federation. They hoped that the Federation would coalesce into a single, independent nation. However, the Federation had limited powers, numerous practical problems, and a lack of popular support; consequently, it was dissolved by the British in 1963, with nine provinces becoming independent sovereign states and four becoming British Overseas Territories.West Indies or West India was the namesake of several chartered companies of the 17th and 18th centuries, including the Danish West India Company, the Dutch West India Company, the French West India Company, and the Swedish West India Company.West Indian is the official term used by the U.S. government to refer to people of the West Indies".
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- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "British West Indies".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "Caribbean islands".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "Caribbean".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "Indies".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "W Indies".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "W.I.".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "WI".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "WIN".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "West India Station".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "West India".
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- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "West Indian islands".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "West Indian".
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- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "West Indies cricket team".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "West Indies".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "West indies".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "West".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "West-Indian".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "West-Indies".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "Western Indies".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "las Indias".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "the Caribbean".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "the West Indies".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "west Indian".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "west Indies".
- West_Indies wikiPageWikiLinkText "western lands".
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