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St. Lucia's history of power struggles has led to a rich culture

Island Held Tight

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Over the years, it is not worship, but it is pleasant to be abandoned in the beautiful island of Saint Lucia. The Arawaks and Caribs the first to take up fighting on the ground. The French and the British fought for more than 150 years of creation and control, with the potential to eventually port in British hands.


Ss. Lucy, referring Python mountains, beaches and the jungle area, which has provided a home to so many cultures through the years. The Arawak tribe first settled in the island, sometime before 200 BC. after about 600 years, fierce, Browse Indians, won the peace Arawak tribe.


Browse the island's name Hevanorra, which is in the country, where the Iguana is located. This is the name of the Holy. Lucia International Airport as a tribute to the island in the past. More than 1000 years have passed, and in front of the other settlers came to her room on the island.


European Discovery

The first recorded European to set foot in Saint Lucia was a French pirate Franfest OIS Le Clerc, and called Jambe de Bois, meaning " wooden legs."He lives in Pigeon Island in the late 1500s. this island is located right on the northernmost point of the siphon. Lucia, Jambe de Bois attacked passing ships.


The English colonists, who in 1605. travels to Guyana to remove them in the storm raging, and ends in Ss. Lucy of the southern end, near present-day Fort Vieux. While about 67 land only 19 left the island. The Caribs took their toll on the shipwrecked ship and drove the would-be colonists off, only to be disabled by canoe, from which it escaped.


The English settlers gave another effort on the island, more than 30 years ago, again the face of strong resistance. Fifteen years later, the French arrived after the French West India Company acquired the island. However, this is not the end of things.


Residential Areas

More than 150 years, the French and the British fought for possession of the Holy spirit. Lucy. At the end of the island to be your hands 14 times, but eventually it was left under British control in 1814.


It was at this time that the Europeans established sugar plantations on the island, especially using West African slaves. However, questions arose after the slaves were free, in 1838. More than 90% of Ss. Inhabitants of saint Lucia are of African origin, a relationship, which even now is almost the same.


Indians began to arrive in 1859. to help stabilize the limping targeted the kitchen, which was very affected by the end of the captivity, and in 1882, to help stabilize the limping football tips.indentured servants from the East India has become the heart and soul of the industry. Also grew rice, which is very important for the island. However, by the 1960s, the sugar industry has disappeared, and the banana became the main export.


S. Lucia has used the slaves, most of the a In States and Bihar, through Calcutta, but in Bengal and Madras has also sent ships full of willing workers from India. While more than 2,500 returned to India after the end of the negotiations, and many, many others remained, and became an integral part of the island, in the culture of S. Lucia.�


One thousand nine hundred seventy-nine of freedom came to this very desirable Islands. It is now an independent state of the British Commonwealth of nations. However, a large part of the island's culture is a mixture of French and African influences, English, and date.


Because the British won control of the Ss. Lucia in the early 1800s, the island has a history of stability in the future. When you arrive on this beautiful island, you can see that the group wanted to send without battery. 


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