Guadeloupe, the Glossary
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420 relations: Afro-Caribbean people, Agence France-Presse, Albioma, Alexandre Lacazette, Americas, Andesite, Anita Blaze, Anse-Bertrand, Anthony Martial, Antigua and Barbuda, Antillean Creole, Antilles, Arawak, Archipelago, Aridity, Arizona Quarterly, Arrondissement of Basse-Terre, Arrondissement of Pointe-à-Pitre, Arrondissements of the Guadeloupe department, Ary Chalus, Associated Press, Association of Caribbean States, Atlantic Time Zone, Îles des Saintes, Bagasse, Baie-Mahault, Baillif, Basaltic andesite, Basement (geology), Basse-Terre, Béké, Bernard Lambourde, Bible Student movement, Biguine, Biomass, Black mangrove, Bouillante, Breton language, British America, British Overseas Territories, Brittany, Bromeliaceae, Cabbage, Cadence rampa, Cadence-lypso, Cantons of the Guadeloupe department, Capesterre-Belle-Eau, Capesterre-de-Marie-Galante, Carbon dioxide, Carbonate platform, ... Expand index (370 more) »
- 1674 establishments in North America
- 1674 establishments in the French colonial empire
- 1759 disestablishments in North America
- 1759 disestablishments in the French colonial empire
- 1759 establishments in North America
- 1759 establishments in the British Empire
- 1763 disestablishments in North America
- 1763 disestablishments in the British Empire
- 1763 establishments in North America
- 1763 establishments in the French colonial empire
- 1810 disestablishments in North America
- 1810 disestablishments in the French colonial empire
- 1810 establishments in North America
- 1810 establishments in the British Empire
- 1816 disestablishments in North America
- 1816 disestablishments in the British Empire
- 1816 establishments in North America
- 1816 establishments in the French colonial empire
- British West Indies
- Dependent territories in the Caribbean
- Former Swedish colonies
- French Caribbean
- Leeward Islands (Caribbean)
- Lesser Antilles
- Outermost regions of the European Union
- Overseas departments of France
- Populated places established in the 4th century
- Regions of France
Afro-Caribbean people
Afro-Caribbean people or African Caribbean are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa.
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Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.
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Albioma
Albioma is an independent renewable energy producer.
Alexandre Lacazette
Alexandre Armand Lacazette (born 28 May 1991) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Lyon.
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Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Andesite
Andesite is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition.
Anita Blaze
Anita Blaze (born 29 October 1991) is a French right-handed foil fencer, two-time Olympian, and 2021 team Olympic silver medalist.
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Anse-Bertrand
Anse-Bertrand (Lansbétran) is a commune in Guadeloupe, an overseas region and department of France in the Lesser Antilles.
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Anthony Martial
Anthony Jordan Martial (born 5 December 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward, most recently for Manchester United.
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Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda is a sovereign island country in the Caribbean. Guadeloupe and Antigua and Barbuda are former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas, former colonies in North America, island countries and leeward Islands (Caribbean).
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Antillean Creole
Antillean Creole (also known as Lesser Antillean Creole) is a French-based creole that is primarily spoken in the Lesser Antilles.
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Antilles
The Antilles is an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east. Guadeloupe and Antilles are Lesser Antilles.
Arawak
The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean.
Archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
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Aridity
Aridity is the condition of a region that severely lacks available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life.
Arizona Quarterly
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory is a peer-reviewed academic literary journal created at the University of Arizona in 1945.
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Arrondissement of Basse-Terre
The arrondissement of Basse-Terre is an arrondissement of France in the Guadeloupe department in the Guadeloupe region.
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Arrondissement of Pointe-à-Pitre
The arrondissement of Pointe-à-Pitre is an arrondissement of France in the Guadeloupe department in the Guadeloupe region.
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Arrondissements of the Guadeloupe department
The 2 arrondissements of the Guadeloupe department are.
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Ary Chalus
Ary Chalus (born 6 December 1961, in Pointe-à-Pitre) is a French politician from Guadeloupe who has been Guadeloupe president since 2015.
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Association of Caribbean States
The Association of Caribbean States (ACS; Asociación de Estados del Caribe; Association des États de la Caraïbe) is an advisory association of nations centered on the Caribbean Basin.
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Atlantic Time Zone
The Atlantic Time Zone is a geographical region that keeps standard time—called Atlantic Standard Time (AST)—by subtracting four hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), resulting in UTC−04:00.
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Îles des Saintes
The Îles des Saintes, also known as Les Saintes (Lésent), is a group of small islands in the archipelago of Guadeloupe, an overseas department of France. Guadeloupe and Îles des Saintes are leeward Islands (Caribbean).
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Bagasse
Bagasse is the dry pulpy fibrous material that remains after crushing sugarcane or sorghum stalks to extract their juice.
Baie-Mahault
Baie-Mahault (Bémao) is a commune in the overseas department and region of Guadeloupe, France.
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Baillif
Baillif (Bayif) is a commune of Guadeloupe, an overseas region and department of France located in the Lesser Antilles.
Basaltic andesite
Basaltic andesite is a volcanic rock that is intermediate in composition between basalt and andesite.
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Basement (geology)
In geology, basement and crystalline basement are crystalline rocks lying above the mantle and beneath all other rocks and sediments.
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Basse-Terre
Basse-Terre (Bastè) is a commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles.
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Béké
Béké or beke is an Antillean Creole term to describe a descendant of the early European, usually French, settlers in the French Antilles.
Bernard Lambourde
Bernard Lambourde (born 11 May 1971) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender.
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Bible Student movement
The Bible Student movement is a Millennialist Restorationist Christian movement.
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Biguine
Biguine (bigin) is a rhythmic dance and music style that originated from Saint-Pierre, Martinique in the 19th century.
Biomass
Biomass is a term used in several contexts: in the context of ecology it means living organisms, and in the context of bioenergy it means matter from recently living (but now dead) organisms.
Black mangrove
Black mangrove may refer to the plants.
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Bouillante
Bouillante (Bouyant) is a commune in the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles.
Breton language
Breton (brezhoneg or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language group spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France.
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British America
British America comprised the colonial territories of the English Empire, and the successor British Empire, in the Americas from 1607 to 1783.
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British Overseas Territories
The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) are the 14 territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom that, while not forming part of the United Kingdom itself, are part of its sovereign territory.
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Brittany
Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation. Guadeloupe and Brittany are regions of France.
Bromeliaceae
The Bromeliaceae (the bromeliads) are a family of monocot flowering plants of about 80 genera and 3700 known species, native mainly to the tropical Americas, with several species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa, Pitcairnia feliciana.
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Cabbage
Cabbage, comprising several cultivars of Brassica oleracea, is a leafy green, red (purple), or white (pale green) biennial plant grown as an annual vegetable crop for its dense-leaved heads.
Cadence rampa
Cadence rampa (kadans ranpa), or simply kadans, is a dance music and modern méringue popularized in the Caribbean by the virtuoso Haitian sax player Webert Sicot in the early 1960s. Cadence rampa was one of the sources of cadence-lypso. Genres: Caribbean and Latin America. Cadence and compas are two names for the same Haitian modern méringue.
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Cadence-lypso
Cadence-lypso is a fusion of cadence rampa from Haiti and calypso from Trinidad and Tobago that has also spread to other English speaking countries of the Caribbean.
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Cantons of the Guadeloupe department
The following is a list of the 21 cantons of the Guadeloupe department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March of 2015.
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Capesterre-Belle-Eau
Capesterre-Belle-Eau (Kapèstè Bèlo) is a commune in the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles.
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Capesterre-de-Marie-Galante
Capesterre-de-Marie-Galante (literally Capesterre of Marie-Galante; Kapestè Marigalant; often simply referred to as Capesterre) is a commune on the island of Marie-Galante, in the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe, itself in the Lesser Antilles.
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Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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Carbonate platform
A carbonate platform is a sedimentary body which possesses topographic relief, and is composed of autochthonic calcareous deposits.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
Caribbean Plate
The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America.
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Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance
The Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance (French: Alliance révolutionnaire caraïbe) was a militant autonomist organization active in the Caribbean-located overseas department of Guadeloupe in the 1980s.
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Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
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Carol (music)
A carol is a festive song, generally religious but not necessarily connected with Christian church worship, and sometimes accompanied by a dance.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Charles Houël du Petit Pré
Charles Houël du Petit Pré (1616—22 April 1682) was a French governor of Guadeloupe from 1643 to 1664.
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Charles Liénard de L'Olive
Charles Liénard, sieur de L'Olive (– 1643) was a French colonial leader who was the first governor of Guadeloupe.
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Chayote
Chayote or Sicyos edulis (previously placed in the obsolete genus Sechium), also known as christophine, mirliton and choko, is an edible plant belonging to the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae.
Chestnut
The chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus Castanea, in the beech family Fagaceae.
Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George(s) (25 December 17459 June 1799) was a French violinist, conductor, composer and soldier.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Christians
A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Christine Arron
Christine Arron (born 13 September 1973) is a former track and field sprinter, who competed internationally for France in the 60 metres, 100 metres, 200 metres and the 4 × 100 metres relay.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
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Cliff
In geography and geology, a cliff is an area of rock which has a general angle defined by the vertical, or nearly vertical.
Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
Cocoa bean
The cocoa bean, also known simply as cocoa or cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted.
Coconut
The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus Cocos.
Code Noir
The Code noir (Black code) was a decree passed by King Louis XIV of France in 1685 defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire and served as the code for slavery conduct in the French colonies up until 1789 the year marking the beginning of the French Revolution.
Collectivity of Saint Martin
The Collectivity of Saint Martin (Collectivité de Saint-Martin), commonly known as simply Saint Martin (Saint-Martin), is an overseas collectivity of France in the West Indies in the Caribbean, on the northern half of the island of Saint Martin, as well as some smaller adjacent islands. Guadeloupe and collectivity of Saint Martin are dependent territories in the Caribbean, French Caribbean, island countries and Outermost regions of the European Union.
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Communes of the Guadeloupe department
The following is a list of the 32 communes of the Guadeloupe overseas department of France.
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Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité
The Compagnies républicaines de sécurité (Republican Security Corps), abbreviated CRS, are the general reserve of the French National Police.
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Company of the American Islands
The Company of the American Islands (Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique) was a French chartered company that in 1635 took over the administration of the French portion of Saint-Christophe island (Saint Kitts) from the Compagnie de Saint-Christophe which was the only French settlement in the Caribbean at that time and was mandated to actively colonise other islands.
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Compas
Compas, also known as compas direct in French, konpa dirèk in Haitian Creole, or simply konpa but most commonly as Kompa, is a modern méringue dance music genre of Haiti.
Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Conversion to Christianity
Conversion to Christianity is the religious conversion of a previously non-Christian person that brings about changes in what sociologists refer to as the convert's "root reality" including their social behaviors, thinking and ethics.
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Cooking banana
Cooking bananas are a group of starchy banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking.
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Coral reef
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals.
Country code top-level domain
A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code.
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Creole peoples
Creole peoples may refer to various ethnic groups around the world.
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Cucurbita
gourd is a genus of herbaceous fruits in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae (also known as cucurbits or cucurbi), native to the Andes and Mesoamerica.
Cuisine
A cuisine is a style of cooking characterized by distinctive ingredients, techniques and dishes, and usually associated with a specific culture or geographic region.
Cyclone
In meteorology, a cyclone is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an anticyclone).
Daniel Jérent
Daniel Jérent (born 4 June 1991) is a French Épée fencer, team world champion in 2014.
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Daniel Maximin
Daniel Maximin (born 9 April 1947) is a French novelist, poet, and essayist.
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David Regis
David Regis (Régis, born December 2, 1968) is a retired professional soccer player and coach who played as a defender.
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Departmental council (France)
The departmental councils (French: conseils départementaux; singular, conseil départemental) of France are representative assemblies elected by universal suffrage in 98 of the country's 101 departments.
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Departmental Council of Guadeloupe
The Departmental Council of Guadeloupe is the deliberative assembly of the French department of Guadeloupe.
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Departments of France
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes.
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Dependencies of Guadeloupe
The dependencies of Guadeloupe are three islands or island groups in the Leeward Islands chain which are administratively part of the neighboring French overseas department of Guadeloupe in the French Lesser Antilles. Guadeloupe and dependencies of Guadeloupe are dependent territories in the Caribbean.
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Dependent territory
A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency (sometimes referred as an external territory) is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state and remains politically outside the controlling state's integral area.
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Deshaies
Deshaies (Déhé) is a commune in the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles.
Dimitri Foulquier
Dimitri Christophe Foulquier (born 23 March 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a right back for La Liga club Valencia.
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Dominica
Dominica (or; Dominican Creole French: Dominik; Kalinago: Waitukubuli), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. Guadeloupe and Dominica are French Caribbean and island countries.
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north. Guadeloupe and Dominican Republic are former colonies in North America and island countries.
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Drink
A drink or beverage is a liquid intended for human consumption.
Drinking water
Drinking water or potable water is water that is safe for ingestion, either when drunk directly in liquid form or consumed indirectly through food preparation.
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Dutch East India Company
The United East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, abbreviated as VOC), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world.
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Eggplant
Eggplant (US, CA, AU, NZ, PH), aubergine (UK, IE), brinjal (IN, SG, MY, ZA), or baigan (IN, GY) is a plant species in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
Energy transition
An energy transition (or energy system transformation) is a major structural change to energy supply and consumption in an energy system.
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Environmental degradation
Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.
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Enzo Lefort
Enzo Lefort (born 29 September 1991) is a French right-handed foil fencer.
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Eocene
The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).
Ethnic groups in Europe
Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe.
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Euro
The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the member states of the European Union.
Euro sign
The euro sign is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone and adopted, although not required to, by Kosovo and Montenegro.
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Eurozone
The euro area, commonly called the eurozone (EZ), is a currency union of 20 member states of the European Union (EU) that have adopted the euro (€) as their primary currency and sole legal tender, and have thus fully implemented EMU policies.
Exclusive economic zone of France
France has, due to its Overseas departments and regions that are scattered in all the oceans of Earth, the largest exclusive economic zone of the world.
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Experience 7
Experience 7 was a Guadeloupean kadans band formed in the mid-1970s, led by Guy Houllier and Yves Honore.
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Extreme poverty
Extreme poverty is the most severe type of poverty, defined by the United Nations (UN) as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information.
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Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.
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Félix Éboué
Adolphe Sylvestre Félix Éboué (26 December 1884 – 17 May 1944) was a French colonial administrator and early adherent to the Free French Movement.
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Fencing
Fencing is a combat sport that features sword fighting.
First French Empire
The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.
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Flag of France
The national flag of France (drapeau français) is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue (hoist side), white, and red.
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Flag of Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe, an overseas region and department of France located in the Caribbean, has no flag with official status other than the French national flag.
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Folk costume
A folk costume (also regional costume, national costume, traditional clothing, traditional garment or traditional regalia) expresses a national identity through clothing or costume, which is associated with a specific region and period of time in history.
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Folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Francky Vincent
Franck Joseph "Francky" Vincent (born 18 April 1956) is a French singer, songwriter, record producer, painter, talent manager and musician from Guadeloupe.
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Free France
Free France (France libre) was a political entity claiming to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic during World War II.
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Free people of color
In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved.
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French Consulate
The Consulate (Consulat) was the top-level government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799 until the start of the French Empire on 18 May 1804.
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French Guiana
French Guiana (or; Guyane,; Lagwiyann or Gwiyann) is an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies. Guadeloupe and French Guiana are French Caribbean, Outermost regions of the European Union, overseas departments of France and regions of France.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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French orthography
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.
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French phonology
French phonology is the sound system of French.
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French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
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French West India Company
The French West India Company (Compagnie française des Indes occidentales) was a French trading company founded on 28 May 1664, some three months before the foundation of the corresponding eastern company, by Jean-Baptiste Colbert and dissolved on 2 January 1674.
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French West Indies
The French West Indies or French Antilles (Antilles françaises,; Antiy fwansé) are the parts of France located in the Antilles islands of the Caribbean. Guadeloupe and French West Indies are former colonies in North America and French Caribbean.
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French-based creole languages
A French creole, or French-based creole language, is a creole for which French is the lexifier.
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Geostrategy
Geostrategy, a subfield of geopolitics, is a type of foreign policy guided principally by geographical factors as they inform, constrain, or affect political and military planning.
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Gilbert Delé
Gilbert Delé (born 1 January 1964) is a French former professional boxer who competed from 1986 to 1993.
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Gourbeyre
Gourbeyre (Goubè) is a commune in the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles.
Gourd
Gourds include the fruits of some flowering plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly Cucurbita and Lagenaria.
Goyave
Goyave (unlike goyave; italic) is a commune in the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles.
Grand-Bourg
Grand-Bourg, also known as Grand-Bourg de Marie-Galante (Gwanbou Mawigalant or Granbou Marigalant), is a commune on the island of Marie-Galante, in the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles, Caribbean.
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Grande-Terre
Grande-Terre Island (île de Grande-Terre / île de la Grande-Terre; Gwanntè or Granntè) is the name of the eastern-half of Guadeloupe proper, in the Lesser Antilles.
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Great Recession
The Great Recession was a period of marked decline in economies around the world that occurred in the late 2000s.
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Greater Antilles
The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Navassa Island, and the Cayman Islands.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Guadalupe, Cáceres
Guadalupe is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura.
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Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (Gwadloup) is an overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. Guadeloupe and Guadeloupe are 1674 establishments in North America, 1674 establishments in the French colonial empire, 1759 disestablishments in North America, 1759 disestablishments in the French colonial empire, 1759 establishments in North America, 1759 establishments in the British Empire, 1763 disestablishments in North America, 1763 disestablishments in the British Empire, 1763 establishments in North America, 1763 establishments in the French colonial empire, 1810 disestablishments in North America, 1810 disestablishments in the French colonial empire, 1810 establishments in North America, 1810 establishments in the British Empire, 1816 disestablishments in North America, 1816 disestablishments in the British Empire, 1816 establishments in North America, 1816 establishments in the French colonial empire, British West Indies, dependent territories in the Caribbean, former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas, former Swedish colonies, former colonies in North America, French Caribbean, island countries, leeward Islands (Caribbean), Lesser Antilles, Outermost regions of the European Union, overseas departments of France, Populated places established in the 4th century and regions of France.
Guadeloupe Communist Party
The Guadeloupe Communist Party (Parti communiste guadeloupéen, PCG) is a political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe.
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Guadeloupe Fund
The Guadeloupe Fund (Guadeloupefonden) was established by Sweden's Riksdag of the Estates in 1815 for the benefit of Crown Prince and Regent Charles XIV John of Sweden, (Swedish: Karl XIV Johan) also known as Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, and his heirs.
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The Guadeloupe national football team (Sélection de la Guadeloupe de football) represents the French overseas department and region of Guadeloupe in men's international football.
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Guadeloupe woodpecker
The Guadeloupe woodpecker (Melanerpes herminieri) or Tapeur is a species of bird in the woodpecker family Picidae belonging to the genus Melanerpes. Endemic to the Guadeloupe archipelago in the Lesser Antilles, it is a medium-sized forest woodpecker with entirely black plumage and red-to-purple reflections on its stomach.
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Guadeloupe's 1st constituency
The 1st constituency of Guadeloupe is a French legislative constituency in Guadeloupe, an insular region of France located in the Leeward Islands.
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Guadeloupe's 2nd constituency
The 2nd constituency of Guadeloupe is a French legislative constituency in Guadeloupe, an insular region of France located in the Leeward Islands.
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Guadeloupe's 3rd constituency
The 3rd constituency of Guadeloupe is a French legislative constituency in Guadeloupe, an insular region of France located in the Leeward Islands.
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Guadeloupe's 4th constituency
The 4th constituency of Guadeloupe is a French legislative Constituency in the Overseas department of Guadeloupe.
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Guadeloupean Objective
The Guadeloupean Objective (Objectif Guadeloupéen, OG) is a political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe.
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Guy Tirolien
Guy Tirolien (February 13, 1917 – March 8, 1988) was a Guadeloupean poet.
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Gwo ka
Gwo ka is an Antillean Creole term for big drum.
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas. Guadeloupe and Haiti are French Caribbean and island countries.
Haitian Americans
Haitian Americans (Haïtiens-Américains; ayisyen ameriken) are a group of Americans of full or partial Haitian origin or descent.
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Haitian diaspora
Haiti has a sizable diaspora, present primarily in the United States, Panama, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Canada, France (including its French Caribbean territories), the Bahamas, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and Chile.
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Haitians
Haitians (French: Haïtiens, Ayisyen) are the citizens of Haiti and the descendants in the diaspora through direct parentage.
Headgear
Headgear, headwear, or headdress is any element of clothing which is worn on one's head, including hats, helmets, turbans and many other types.
Henry Sidambarom
Henry Sidambarom (5 July 1863 – 15 September 1952) was a Justice of the Peace and defender of the cause of Indian workers in Guadeloupe.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hippomane
Hippomane is a genus of plants in the Euphorbiaceae described by Linnaeus in 1753.
Hong Kong Observatory
The Hong Kong Observatory is a weather forecast agency of the government of Hong Kong.
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Humpback whale
The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale.
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Hurricane Betsy
Hurricane Betsy was an intense, deadly and destructive tropical cyclone that brought widespread damage to areas of Florida and the central United States Gulf Coast in September 1965.
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Hurricane Cleo
Hurricane Cleo was the strongest tropical cyclone of the 1964 Atlantic hurricane season.
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Hurricane Hugo
Hurricane Hugo was a powerful tropical cyclone that inflicted widespread destruction across the northeastern Caribbean and the Southeastern United States in September 1989.
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Hurricane Inez
Hurricane Inez was a powerful Category 5 major hurricane that affected the Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida, and Mexico, killing over 1,000 people in 1966.
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Hurricane Irma
Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful Cape Verde hurricane that caused widespread destruction across its path in early September 2017.
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Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which accounted for 2,975 of the 3,059 deaths.
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Hurricane Marilyn
Hurricane Marilyn was the most powerful hurricane to strike the Virgin Islands since Hurricane Hugo of 1989, and the third such tropical cyclone in roughly a two-week time span to strike or impact the Leeward Islands, the others being Hurricane Iris and the much more powerful and destructive Hurricane Luis.
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Hydropower
Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines.
Indentured servitude
Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years.
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Index of Guadeloupe-related articles
Articles related to the French overseas department of Guadeloupe include.
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Indirect election
An indirect election or hierarchical voting, is an election in which voters do not choose directly among candidates or parties for an office (direct voting system), but elect people who in turn choose candidates or parties.
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Indo-Guadeloupeans
Indo-Guadeloupeans are mostly descended from indentured workers who came mostly from South India in the late 19th century.
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Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques
The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques), abbreviated INSEE or Insee, is the national statistics bureau of France.
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Intangible cultural heritage
An intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill considered by UNESCO to be part of a place's cultural heritage.
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International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation
The International Fitness and BodyBuilding Federation (IFBB), headquartered in Las Rozas (Madrid), is an international professional sports governing body for bodybuilding and fitness that oversees many of the sport's major international events, notably the World and Continental Championships.
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International Herald Tribune
The International Herald Tribune (IHT) was a daily English-language newspaper published in Paris, France, for international English-speaking readers.
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Introduced species
An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.
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Invasion of Guadeloupe (1759)
The British expedition against Guadeloupe was a military action from January to May 1759, as part of the Seven Years' War.
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Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810)
The Invasion of Guadeloupe was a British amphibious operation fought between 28 January and 6 February 1810 over control of the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Ironwood
Ironwood is a common name for many woods or plants that have a reputation for hardness, or specifically a wood density that is heavier than water (approximately 1000 kg/m3, or 62 pounds per cubic foot), although usage of the name ironwood in English may or may not indicate a tree that yields such heavy wood.
Island arc
Island arcs are long chains of active volcanoes with intense seismic activity found along convergent tectonic plate boundaries.
Islet
An islet is a very small, often unnamed island.
ISO 3166-2:FR
ISO 3166-2:FR is the entry for France in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. Guadeloupe and ISO 3166-2:FR are regions of France.
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ISO 3166-2:GP
ISO 3166-2:GP is the entry for Guadeloupe in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
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ISO 4217
ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines alpha codes and numeric codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individual currencies and their minor units.
Jackfruit
The jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is a species of tree in the fig, mulberry, and breadfruit family (Moraceae).
Jacques Bino
Jacques Bino (died February 18, 2009) was a Guadeloupean tax agent, activist and trade union official and representative.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory). Guadeloupe and Jamaica are island countries.
Javan mongoose
The Javan mongoose (Urva javanica) is a mongoose species native to Southeast Asia.
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Jean du Plessis d'Ossonville
Jean du Plessis, sieur d’Ossonville (died 4 December 1635) was a joint leader of the French expedition that established a colony on the island of Guadeloupe in 1635.
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Jean-Marc Mormeck
Jean-Marc Gilbert Mormeck (born 3 June 1972) is a French former professional boxer who competed from 1995 to 2014.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination.
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Johan Petro
Johan Petro (born January 27, 1986) is a French former professional basketball player of Guadeloupean descent, who last played for the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the NBA Development League.
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Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn (31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period.
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Kalina people
The Kalina, also known as the Caribs or mainland Caribs and by several other names, are an Indigenous people native to the northern coastal areas of South America.
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Kassav'
Kassav', also alternatively spelled Kassav, is a French Caribbean band that originated from Guadeloupe in 1979.
K–Ar dating
Potassium–argon dating, abbreviated K–Ar dating, is a radiometric dating method used in geochronology and archaeology.
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Kindergarten
Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school.
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Kingdom of Great Britain
The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800.
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Kingsley Coman
Kingsley Junior Coman (born 13 June 1996) is a French professional footballer who plays as a winger for club Bayern Munich and the France national team.
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La Désirade
La Désirade (Dézirad or Déziwad) is an island in the French West Indies, in the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean. Guadeloupe and La Désirade are leeward Islands (Caribbean).
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La Désirade (commune)
La Désirade (Dézirad or Déziwad) is a commune in the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles.
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La Grande Soufrière
La Grande Soufrière ("big sulfur outlet"), or simply Soufrière (Soufwiyè), is an active stratovolcano on the French island of Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe.
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La Marseillaise
"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France.
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Lamentin
Lamentin (Manten or Lamanten) is a commune in the French overseas department and region of Guadeloupe.
Landscape
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.
Latin America
Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.
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Laura Flessel-Colovic
Laura Flessel-Colovic (born 6 November 1971) is a French politician and épée fencer who served as Minister of Sports from 2017 to 2018.
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Layvin Kurzawa
Layvin Marc Kurzawa (born 4 September 1992) is a French professional footballer who plays as a left-back.
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Le Gosier
Le Gosier (Gozyé) is a commune in the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles.
Le Moule
Le Moule (Moul) is the sixth-largest commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe.
Lebanese people
The Lebanese people (الشعب اللبناني / ALA-LC) are the people inhabiting or originating from Lebanon.
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Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
Leeward Islands
The Leeward Islands are a group of islands situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. Guadeloupe and Leeward Islands are leeward Islands (Caribbean) and Lesser Antilles.
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Les Abymes
Les Abymes (Zabim) is the most populous commune in the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles.
Lesser Antilles
The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.
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Lesser Antilles subduction zone
The Lesser Antilles subduction zone is a convergent plate boundary on the seafloor along the eastern margin of the Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc. Guadeloupe and Lesser Antilles subduction zone are Lesser Antilles.
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Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc
The Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc is a volcanic arc that forms the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Plate. Guadeloupe and Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc are Lesser Antilles.
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Liana
A liana is a long-stemmed woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy in search of direct sunlight.
Lichen
A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.
Life expectancy
Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.
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Light industry
Light industry are industries that usually are less capital-intensive than heavy industries and are more consumer-oriented than business-oriented, as they typically produce smaller consumer goods.
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Lilian Thuram
Ruddy Lilian Thuram-Ulien (born 1 January 1972) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender.
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Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
List of airports in Guadeloupe
This is a list of airports in Guadeloupe.
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List of colonial and departmental heads of Guadeloupe
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) Note: currently, the prefect is not the true departmental head, which is the President of the General Council.
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List of political parties in France
This article contains a list of political parties in France.
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Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon
Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon, or LKP, is an umbrella group of approximately fifty trade unions and social movements in Guadeloupe.
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Louis Delgrès
Louis Delgrès (2 August 1766 – 28 May 1802) was a leader of the movement in Guadeloupe resisting reoccupation and thus the reinstitution of slavery by Napoleonic France in 1802.
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Ludovic Proto
Ludovic Proto (born 30 April 1965 in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a French former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 1998.
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Mahogany
Mahogany is a straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the AmericasBridgewater, Samuel (2012).
Man and the Biosphere Programme
Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific program, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the 'improvement of relationships' between people and their environments.
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Mango
A mango is an edible stone fruit produced by the tropical tree Mangifera indica.
Mangrove
A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.
Manilkara huberi
Manilkara huberi, also known as masaranduba, níspero, and sapotilla, is a fruit bearing plant of the genus Manilkara of the family Sapotaceae.
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Mantidae
Mantidae is one of the largest families in the order of praying mantises, based on the type species Mantis religiosa; however, most genera are tropical or subtropical.
Marie Mahabir
Marie Laure Mahabir is a former professional bodybuilder and personal trainer of the French West Indies.
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Marie-Galante
Marie-Galante (Mawigalant or Marigalant) is one of the dependencies of Guadeloupe, an overseas department of France. Guadeloupe and Marie-Galante are leeward Islands (Caribbean).
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Marie-José Pérec
Marie-José Pérec (born 9 May 1968) is a retired French track and field sprinter who specialised in the 200 and 400 metres and is a three-time Olympic gold medalist.
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Maritime Gendarmerie
The Maritime Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie maritime) is a component of the French National Gendarmerie under operational control of the chief of staff of the French Navy.
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Marius Trésor
Marius Paul Trésor (born 15 January 1950) is a French former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
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Maronite Church
The Maronite Church (لكنيسة المارونية; ܥܕܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܡܪܘܢܝܬܐ) is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church in full communion with the pope and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.
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Martinique
Martinique (Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. Guadeloupe and Martinique are dependent territories in the Caribbean, French Caribbean, island countries, Outermost regions of the European Union, overseas departments of France and regions of France.
Mary, mother of Jesus
Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.
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Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé (née Marise Liliane Appoline Boucolon; 11 February 1934 – 2 April 2024) was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas department and region of Guadeloupe.
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Massif
A massif is a principal mountain mass, such as a compact portion of a mountain range, containing one or more summits (e.g. France's Massif Central).
Mathys Tel
Mathys Henri Tel (born 27 April 2005) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Bayern Munich.
Mayotte
Mayotte (Mayotte,; Maore,; Maori), officially the Department of Mayotte (Département de Mayotte), is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. Guadeloupe and Mayotte are Outermost regions of the European Union and overseas departments of France.
Melicoccus bijugatus
Melicoccus bijugatus is a fruit-bearing tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native or naturalized across the New World tropics including South and Central America, and parts of the Caribbean.
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Mesozoic
The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.
Mestizo
Mestizo (fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and Indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire.
Metropolitan France
Metropolitan France (France métropolitaine or la Métropole), also known as European France, is the area of France which is geographically in Europe. Guadeloupe and Metropolitan France are regions of France.
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The Mexico national football team represents Mexico in international football and is governed by the Mexican Football Federation.
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Michel Debré
Michel Jean-Pierre Debré (15 January 1912 – 2 August 1996) was the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic.
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Mickaël Gelabale
Mickaël Gelabale (born May 22, 1983) is a French professional basketball player who last played for Élan Chalon of the Pro B. He also represents the France national basketball team internationally.
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Mickaël Piétrus
Mickaël Marvin Soriano Piétrus (born 7 February 1982) is a French former professional basketball player.
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Miguel Comminges
Miguel Gregory Comminges (born 16 March 1982) is a Guadeloupean former professional footballer.
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Mikaël Silvestre
Mikaël Samy Silvestre (born 9 August 1977) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender.
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Montserrat
Montserrat is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. Guadeloupe and Montserrat are dependent territories in the Caribbean, island countries and leeward Islands (Caribbean).
Morinda citrifolia
Morinda citrifolia is a fruit-bearing tree in the coffee family, Rubiaceae, native to Southeast Asia and Australasia, which was spread across the Pacific by Polynesian sailors.
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Morne-à-l'Eau
Morne-à-l'Eau (Monalô) is a commune located in the department of Guadeloupe.
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Mr. Olympia
Mr.
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Mulatto
Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry.
Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Mycobacterium
Mycobacterium is a genus of over 190 species in the phylum Actinomycetota, assigned its own family, Mycobacteriaceae.
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Myriam Warner-Vieyra
Myriam Warner-Vieyra (25 March 1939 – 29 December 2017) was a Guadeloupean-born writer of novels and poetry.
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National Assembly (France)
The National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (Sénat).
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National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).
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National Gendarmerie
The National Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie nationale) is one of two national law enforcement forces of France, along with the National Police.
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National park
A national park is a nature park designated for conservation purposes because of unparalleled national natural, historic, or cultural significance.
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Natural environment
The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.
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New France
New France (Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris. Guadeloupe and New France are 1763 disestablishments in North America and former colonies in North America.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as the president of France and co-prince of Andorra from 2007 to 2012.
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Nicolas-Germain Léonard
Nicolas-Germain Léonard (16 March 1744 – 26 January 1793) was a poet and one of Guadeloupe's first writers.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Nudity
Nudity is the state of being in which a human is without clothing.
Oceanic crust
Oceanic crust is the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of the tectonic plates.
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Official language
An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.
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Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
Open de Guadeloupe
The Open de Guadeloupe (formerly known as Orange Open Guadeloupe) is a tennis tournament held in Le Gosier, Guadeloupe since 2011.
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Optediceros breviculum
Optediceros breviculum, common name the red mangrove snail, is a species of minute operculate snail, a freshwater or marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Assimineidae.
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Orchid
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae, a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant.
Oruno Lara
Oruno Lara (1879 – 1924) was a Guadeloupean poet, author and historian, not to be confused with his grandson Dr.
Our Lady of Guadalupe in Extremadura
Our Lady of Guadalupe in Extremadura is a Marian shrine in Cáceres, Spain that traces its history to the medieval kingdom of Castile.
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Overseas departments and regions of France
The overseas departments and regions of France (départements et régions d'outre-mer,; DROM) are departments of the French Republic which are outside the continental Europe situated portion of France, known as "metropolitan France". Guadeloupe and overseas departments and regions of France are overseas departments of France.
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Overseas France
Overseas France (France d'outre-mer, also France ultramarine) consists of 13 French territories outside Europe, mostly the remains of the French colonial empire that remained a part of the French state under various statuses after decolonization.
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Panama Canal
The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade.
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Passiflora edulis
Passiflora edulis, commonly known as passion fruit, is a vine species of passion flower native to the region of southern Brazil through Paraguay to northern Argentina.
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Patricia Girard
Patricia Girard (also Girard-Léno, born 8 April 1968) is a French athlete who competed mainly in the 100m hurdles.
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Paul Niger
Paul Niger (21 December 1915 – 22 June 1962) was a poet and political activist from Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe.
Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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People's Union for the Liberation of Guadeloupe
The People's Union for the Liberation of Guadeloupe (Union populaire pour la libération de la Guadeloupe, UPLG) is a far-left political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe.
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Petit-Bourg
Petit-Bourg (Tibou, Ti Bou) is the seventh-largest commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe.
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Petit-Canal
Petit-Canal (literally Little Canal; Ti Kannal or Kannal) is a commune in the department of Guadeloupe.
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Petite Terre Islands
Petite Terre Islands (Îles de la Petite-Terre, literally "Islands of the Small Land") are two small uninhabited islands located about to the south-east of the island of Grande-Terre (Guadeloupe), in the Lesser Antilles. Guadeloupe and Petite Terre Islands are Lesser Antilles.
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Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc
Pierre Belain, sieur d'Esnambuc (1585–1636) was a French trader and adventurer in the Caribbean, who established the first permanent French colony, Saint-Pierre, on the island of Martinique in 1635.
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Pineapple
The pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant with an edible fruit; it is the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae.
Plantation
Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on.
Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.
Plural Left (Guadeloupe)
The Plural Left (Gauche Plurielle) is a political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe.
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Pointe-à-Pitre
Pointe-à-Pitre (Pwentapit,, or simply Lapwent) is the second most populous commune of Guadeloupe (after Les Abymes).
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Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport
Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport or Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet Airport (Aérodrome de Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet or Aéroport Guadeloupe Pôle Caraïbes "Caribbean Hub") is an international airport serving Pointe-à-Pitre on the island of Grande-Terre in Guadeloupe, France.
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Pointe-Noire, Guadeloupe
Pointe-Noire (Pwentnwa) is a commune on Guadeloupe, a French overseas department in the Caribbean.
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Pomegranate
The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punicoideae, that grows between tall.
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Pondicherry
Pondicherry (Pondichéry) is the capital and most populous city of the Union Territory of Puducherry in India. Guadeloupe and Pondicherry are 1674 establishments in the French colonial empire.
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Port-Louis, Guadeloupe
Port-Louis (Pòlwi) is a commune in the department of Guadeloupe, on the northwest of Grande-Terre.
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Prefect
Prefect (from the Latin praefectus, substantive adjectival form of praeficere: "put in front", meaning in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area.
Prefectures in France
In France, a prefecture (préfecture) may be.
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Progressive Democratic Party of Guadeloupe
The Progressive Democratic Party of Guadeloupe (Parti progressiste démocratique guadeloupéen, PPDG) is a democratic socialist political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe.
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Property
Property is a system of rights that gives people legal control of valuable things, and also refers to the valuable things themselves.
Protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Pungency
Pungency refers to the taste of food commonly referred to as spiciness, hotness or heat, found in foods such as chili peppers.
Purple-throated carib
The purple-throated carib (Eulampis jugularis) is a species of hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae.
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Quaternary
The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
Raccoon
The raccoon (or, Procyon lotor), also spelled racoon and sometimes called the common raccoon or northern raccoon to distinguish it from the other species, is a mammal native to North America.
Rainforest
Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire.
Rastafari
Rastafari, sometimes called Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.
Réunion
La Réunion, "La Reunion"; La Réunion; Reunionese Creole; previously known as Île Bourbon. Guadeloupe and Réunion are island countries, Outermost regions of the European Union, overseas departments of France and regions of France.
Reef
A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral, or similar relatively stable material lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water.
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
Regional council (France)
A regional council (conseil régional) is the elected assembly of a region of France. Guadeloupe and regional council (France) are regions of France.
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Regional Council of Guadeloupe
The Regional Council of Guadeloupe consists of 41 members.
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Regions of France
France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (régions, singular région), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collectivities, which have a semi-autonomous status).
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Renewable energy
Renewable energy (or green energy) is energy from renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human timescale.
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Republican Guard (France)
The Republican Guard (Garde républicaine) is part of the French National Gendarmerie.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Richter scale
The Richter scale, also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale".
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Rodrigue Beaubois
Rodrigue Gabriel Beaubois (born 24 February 1988) is a French professional basketball player for Anadolu Efes of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroLeague.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Basse-Terre
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Basse-Terre and Pointe-à-Pitre (Dioecesis Imae Telluris et Petrirostrensis), more simply known as the Diocese of Basse-Terre, is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean.
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Ronald Zubar
Ronald Raymond Zubar (born 20 September 1985) is a Guadeloupean former professional footballer who played as a defender.
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Route du Rhum
The Route du Rhum is a transatlantic single-handed yacht race, which takes place every four years in November.
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Rudy Gobert
Rudy Gobert-Bourgarel (born June 26, 1992) is a French professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Rugby union in Guadeloupe
Rugby union in Guadeloupe is a minor, but growing sport.
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Rum
Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice.
Sailing ship
A sailing ship is a sea-going vessel that uses sails mounted on masts to harness the power of wind and propel the vessel.
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Saint Barthélemy
Saint Barthélemy (Saint-Barthélemy), officially the Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Barthélemy, also known as St. Guadeloupe and Saint Barthélemy are dependent territories in the Caribbean, former Swedish colonies, former colonies in North America, French Caribbean, island countries and leeward Islands (Caribbean).
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Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe
Saint-Claude (Senklòd) is a commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe.
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Saint-François, Guadeloupe
Saint-François (Senfwanswa) is a town and commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe, located in the southeast point of the main island of Grande-Terre.
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Saint-Georges International Music Festival
The Saint-Georges International Music Festival (French: Festival International de Musique Saint-Georges) is a prominent music festival held in Guadeloupe, celebrating the life and works of Joseph Bologne, Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
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Saint-John Perse
Alexis Leger (31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975), better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse (also Saint-Leger Leger), was a French poet, writer and diplomat, awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time".
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Saint-Louis, Guadeloupe
Saint-Louis (Senlwi) is a commune in the overseas department of Guadeloupe.
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Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe
Sainte-Anne (Sentann') is a city in the southern part of Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe in the French West Indies.
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Sainte-Rose, Guadeloupe
Sainte-Rose (Sentwòz) is a commune in the department of Guadeloupe.
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Salinity
Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water (see also soil salinity).
Sanitation
Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage.
Schengen Area
The Schengen Area is an area encompassing European countries that have officially abolished border controls at their mutual borders.
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Secondary education in France
In France, secondary education is in two stages.
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Senate (France)
The Senate (Sénat) is the upper house of the French Parliament, with the lower house being the National Assembly, the two houses constituting the legislature of France.
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Serge Nubret
Serge Nubret (6 October 193819 April 2011) was a French professional bodybuilder, actor and self-published author.
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Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas.
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology.
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Simone Schwarz-Bart
Simone Schwarz-Bart (born Simone Brumant, 1938) is a French novelist and playwright of Guadeloupean origin.
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Skirt
A skirt is the lower part of a dress or a separate outer garment that covers a person from the waist downwards.
Slave rebellion
A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves, as a way of fighting for their freedom.
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Slavery
Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.
Slavery in the British and French Caribbean
Slavery in the British and French Caribbean refers to slavery in the parts of the Caribbean dominated by France or the British Empire.
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Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.
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Stéphane Auvray
Stéphane Auvray (born 4 September 1981) is a Guadeloupean former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
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Stéphane Zubar
Stéphane Zubar (born 9 October 1986) is a Guadeloupean former professional footballer who played as a defender.
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Subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.
Sugarcane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
Syrians
Syrians (سوريون) are the majority inhabitants of Syria, indigenous to the Levant, who have Arabic, especially its Levantine dialect, as a mother tongue.
Telephone numbers in France
The French telephone numbering plan is used in Metropolitan France, French overseas departments and some overseas collectivities.
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Terre-de-Bas
Terre-de-Bas (Tèdéba) is a commune in the French overseas department and region of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles.
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Terre-de-Haut
Terre-de-Haut (Tèdého) is a commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe, including Terre-de-Haut Island and a few other small uninhabited islands of the archipelago (les Roches Percées; Îlet à Cabrit; Grand-Îlet; la Redonde).
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Terre-de-Haut Island
Terre-de-Haut Island (Tèdého; also formerly known as Petite Martinique) is the easternmost island in the Îles des Saintes, part of the archipelago of Guadeloupe.
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Tertiary sector of the economy
The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle).
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.
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Thierry Henry
Thierry Daniel Henry (born 17 August 1977) is a French professional football coach, pundit, sports broadcaster and former player.
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Thomas Lemar
Thomas Benoît Lemar (born 12 November 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Atlético Madrid.
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Tour de Guadeloupe
The Tour de Guadeloupe (Tour of Guadeloupe) is an annual men's multiple stage road bicycle race held each August in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
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Track and field
Athletics (or track and field in the United States) is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills.
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Trade winds
The trade winds or easterlies are permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region.
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Treaty of Paris (1763)
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, following Great Britain and Prussia's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War.
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Treaty of Paris (1814)
The Treaty of Paris, signed on 30 May 1814, ended the war between France and the Sixth Coalition, part of the Napoleonic Wars, following an armistice signed on 23 April between Charles, Count of Artois, and the allies.
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Treaty of Stockholm (1813)
The 1813 Treaty of Stockholm was a "treaty of concert and subsidy" between Great Britain and Sweden.
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Trois-Rivières, Guadeloupe
Trois-Rivières (literally "Three Rivers"; Twarivyè) is a commune in the overseas department of Guadeloupe, and the chef-lieu of the Canton of Trois-Rivières.
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Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
The tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest is a habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature and is located at tropical and subtropical latitudes.
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Tropical climate
Tropical climate is the first of the five major climate groups in the Köppen climate classification identified with the letter A. Tropical climates are defined by a monthly average temperature of or higher in the coolest month, featuring hot temperatures and high humidity all year-round.
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
United Guadeloupe, Solidary and Responsible
United Guadeloupe, Solidary and Responsible (Guadeloupe unie, solidaire et responsable; abbreviated GUSR), formerly known as United Guadeloupe, Socialism and Facts (Guadeloupe unie, socialisme et réalités), is a political party in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, known as ECLAC, UNECLAC or in Spanish and Portuguese CEPAL, is a United Nations regional commission to encourage economic cooperation.
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University of the French Antilles
The University of the Antilles, also known in English as the University of the French Antilles, is a French public university, located in the French West Indies.
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Urban unit
In France, an urban unit is a statistical area defined by INSEE, the French national statistics office, for the measurement of contiguously built-up areas.
Vacation
A vacation (American English) or holiday (British English) is either a leave of absence from a regular job or an instance of leisure travel away from home.
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
Vichy France
Vichy France (Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.
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Victor Hugues
Jean-Baptiste Victor Hugues sometimes spelled Hughes (July 20, 1762 in Marseille – August 12, 1826 in Cayenne) was a French politician and colonial administrator during the French Revolution, who governed Guadeloupe from 1794 to 1798, emancipating the island's slaves under orders from the National Convention.
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Vieux-Fort, Guadeloupe
Vieux-Fort (Vyéfò) is a commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe.
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Vieux-Habitants
Vieux-Habitants (French for Old Inhabitants; Zabitan) is a commune on Guadeloupe, a French overseas department in the Caribbean.
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Violence
Violence is the use of physical force to cause harm to people, or non-human life, such as pain, injury, death, damage, or destruction.
Volcanic island
Geologically, a volcanic island is an island of volcanic origin.
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West Indian
A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago).
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Wilhem Belocian
Wilhem Belocian (born 25 June 1995) is a French hurdler and sprinter from Guadeloupe.
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William Gallas
William Eric Gallas (born 17 August 1977) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender.
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Windward and leeward
In geography and seamanship, windward and leeward are directions relative to the wind.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
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Yam (vegetable)
Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers (some other species in the genus being toxic).
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Yannick Borel
Yannick Borel (born 5 November 1988) is a French right-handed épée fencer.
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Ysaora Thibus
Ysaora Jennifer Thibus (born 22 August 1991) is a French right-handed foil fencer, 2022 individual world champion, three-time Olympian, and 2020 team Olympic silver medalist.
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Zouk
Zouk is a musical movement pioneered by the French Antillean band Kassav' in the early 1980s.
.fr
.fr is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet for France.
.gp
.gp is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Guadeloupe.
1843 Guadeloupe earthquake
The 1843 Guadeloupe earthquake occurred at 10:37 local time on 8 February in the island of Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles.
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1928 Okeechobee hurricane
The Okeechobee hurricane of 1928, also known as the San Felipe Segundo hurricane, was one of the deadliest hurricanes in the recorded history of the North Atlantic basin, and the fourth deadliest hurricane in the United States, only behind the 1900 Galveston hurricane, 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, and Hurricane Maria.
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2003 Guadeloupean autonomy referendum
A referendum on autonomy was held in Guadeloupe on 7 December 2003.
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2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup
The 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the ninth edition of the Gold Cup, the soccer championship of North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF), and was won by the United States over Mexico.
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2009 French Caribbean general strikes
The 2009 French Caribbean general strikes began in the French overseas region of Guadeloupe on 20 January 2009, and spread to neighbouring Martinique on 5 February 2009.
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See also
1674 establishments in North America
- British West Indies
- Guadeloupe
1674 establishments in the French colonial empire
- Guadeloupe
- Pondicherry
1759 disestablishments in North America
- Guadeloupe
1759 disestablishments in the French colonial empire
- Guadeloupe
1759 establishments in North America
- Guadeloupe
1759 establishments in the British Empire
- 4th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
- Annapolis County, Nova Scotia
- Chester, Nova Scotia
- Fort Haldane
- Guadeloupe
- Sambro Island Light
1763 disestablishments in North America
- Guadeloupe
- New France
1763 disestablishments in the British Empire
- Chandannagar
- Guadeloupe
1763 establishments in North America
- British West Florida
- Daphne, Alabama
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Louisiana (New Spain)
- Philipsburg, Sint Maarten
- Uummannaq
1763 establishments in the French colonial empire
1810 disestablishments in North America
- Guadeloupe
- Republic of West Florida
1810 disestablishments in the French colonial empire
- Guadeloupe
1810 establishments in North America
- Coakley Bay Estate
- Guadeloupe
- Republic of West Florida
1810 establishments in the British Empire
- British Mauritius
- Guadeloupe
- Spokane House
1816 disestablishments in North America
- Guadeloupe
1816 disestablishments in the British Empire
- Aruba
- Chandannagar
- Guadeloupe
- The Bermuda Gazette
1816 establishments in North America
1816 establishments in the French colonial empire
- Guadeloupe
British West Indies
- 4th West India Regiment
- Anguilla
- Bishoprics, etc., in West Indies Act 1842
- British Antigua and Barbuda
- British Caribbean Philatelic Study Group
- British Dominica
- British Grenada
- British Leeward Islands
- British Saint Christopher and Nevis
- British Saint Lucia
- British Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- British Trinidad and Tobago
- British Virgin Islands
- British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–1939
- British West Indies
- British West Indies Championships
- British West Indies Regiment
- British West Indies Study Circle
- British West Indies dollar
- British Windward Islands
- Caribbean Commission
- Coastwise slave trade
- Colony of Barbados
- Colony of Jamaica
- Colony of the Bahamas
- Commonwealth Caribbean
- Currencies of the British West Indies
- Federal Parliament of the West Indies Federation
- Guadeloupe
- History of the British West Indies
- Report of West India Royal Commission (Moyne Report)
- Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla
- Taíno
- University of the West Indies
- West India Regiments
- West Indian Brigade
- West Indies Associated States
- West Indies Federation
- Yoni Expedition
Dependent territories in the Caribbean
- Anguilla
- Aruba
- Bonaire
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Collectivity of Saint Martin
- Curaçao
- Curaçao and Dependencies
- Dependencies of Guadeloupe
- Dutch Caribbean
- Federal Dependencies of Venezuela
- Guadeloupe
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Navassa Island
- Puerto Rico
- Saba (island)
- Saint Barthélemy
- Sint Maarten
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- United States Virgin Islands
Former Swedish colonies
- Cape Coast
- Chartered company
- Dominions of Sweden
- Guadeloupe
- New Sweden
- Saint Barthélemy
- Swedish Gold Coast
- Swedish colonies in the Americas
- Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy
- Swedish overseas colonies
- Swedish slave trade
French Caribbean
- Collectivity of Saint Martin
- Dominica
- French Guiana
- French West Indies
- Guadeloupe
- Haiti
- List of governors general of the French Antilles
- Martinique
- Négritude
- Parc naturel régional de la Martinique
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Lucia
Leeward Islands (Caribbean)
- Îles des Saintes
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Barbados
- British Leeward Islands
- Caribbean Netherlands
- Fort Louis (Saint Martin)
- Geography of Aruba
- Guadeloupe
- Islands of Antigua and Barbuda
- Islands of Guadeloupe
- La Désirade
- Leeward Islands
- Leeward Islands Championships in Athletics
- Leeward Islands Junior Championships in Athletics
- Marie-Galante
- Montserrat
- Netherlands Antilles
- Nevis
- SSS islands
- Saba (island)
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Martin (island)
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten
- The Leeward Islands Gazette
- Virgin Islands
Lesser Antilles
- Anglo-French War (1778–1783)
- Antilles
- Barbados
- Boa blanchardensis
- Effects of Hurricane Georges in the Lesser Antilles
- Fonseca Island
- Geography of Barbados
- Guadeloupe
- Islands of the Netherlands Antilles
- Kantia
- Leeward Antilles
- Leeward Islands
- Lesser Antilles
- Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc
- Lesser Antilles subduction zone
- List of Indigenous names of Caribbean islands
- Music of the Lesser Antilles
- Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
- Petite Terre Islands
- Saint Kitts
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Windward Islands
Outermost regions of the European Union
- Azores
- Canary Islands
- Collectivity of Saint Martin
- French Guiana
- Guadeloupe
- Madeira
- Martinique
- Mayotte
- Overseas departments of France
- Réunion
Overseas departments of France
Populated places established in the 4th century
- Abu Mena
- Ad Plumbaria
- Bejucal (Mesoamerican site)
- Cát Tiên archaeological site
- City of San Marino
- Constantinople
- Guadeloupe
- Joigny
- Pevensey
Regions of France
- Île-de-France
- Arpitania
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- Brittany
- Brittany (administrative region)
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Corsica
- Flags of the regions of France
- French Guiana
- Grand Est
- Guadeloupe
- Hauts-de-France
- ISO 3166-2:FR
- List of French regions and overseas collectivities by GDP
- List of French regions and overseas departments by GRP per capita
- Martinique
- Metropolitan France
- Normandy
- Normandy (administrative region)
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Occitania (administrative region)
- Overseas departments of France
- Pays de la Loire
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Puisaye
- Réunion
- Ranked list of French regions
- Regional council (France)
- Regional councils of France
- Regions of France
- Southern France
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadeloupe
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