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History of Tobago
Fri, 23/01/2009 - 9:47pm by admin
Charlotteville Village seen from Fort Cambelton
At the time of European contact, Tobago was inhabited by Island Caribs. The first European visitors appear to have been British in 1580. According to the earliest English-language source cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, Tobago bore a name that has become the English word tobacco. The first settlers were Dutchmen in 1654. It changed hands 22 times until in 1814 it was ceded to the United Kingdom. In 1889 Tobago was united with Trinidad into a British crown colony. In 1962 they became an independent Commonwealth nation of Trinidad and Tobago, in 1976 a republic.
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