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ID: 7004786
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Record Type: administrative |
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Montserrat (dependent state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 16 45 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 16.7500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 062 12 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -62.2000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Inhabited by Carib people; sighted by Columbus, but not settled by Europeans until English & Irish arrived in 1632; developed a plantation economy based on the labor of Africans brought here as slaves; briefly occupied by French in 1660s & 1780s; ravaged by volcanic activity in late 1990s; official language is English. |
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| Montserrat (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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............ | named by Columbus in 1493, after the Spanish abbey of the same name |
| Colony of Montserrat (C,V)
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| Emerald Isle (C,V)
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| Monserrat (C,O)
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| MSR (C,O,ISO3L)
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| MS (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO500 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| MH00 (C,O,FIPS)
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| Montserratian (C,V)
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| dependent state (preferred, C) |
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British since 18th cen., but separate from the Colony of the Leeward Islands since 1962 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| colony (C) |
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| island (C) |
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| nation (C) |
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