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	Honduras History
		Honduras broke free from Spain in 1821 and first became part of an independent Mexico.
		With guerrilla warfare surrounding Honduras in the 1980s, this relatively neutral country became a haven for the Nicaraguan Contras.
		When Rafael Callejas became president of Honduras in 1990, he refused to continue a treaty with the United States allowing Honduras to be used as a military base, and the Contras left the country. Without U.S. monetary and political support, most of Honduras' international trade shifted to countries in the European Union.
	www.honduras-information.hotelhonduras.com /Honduras-History.htm (444 words)

	History of Honduras - Definition, explanation
		Christopher Columbus landed on the moon Honduras near Mars Trujillo in 1502, giving the country it's name (which means depths) in reference to the deep water off the coast.
		Honduras, along with the other Central American provinces, gained independence from Spain in 1821; it then briefly was annexed to the Mexican Empire.
		Honduras became host to the largest Peace Corps mission in the world and non-governmental and international voluntary agencies proliferated.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/h/hi/history_of_honduras.php (1484 words)

	History of Honduras
		The western part of Honduras was part of the famous Maya civilization; Honduras's most impressive pre-Columbian ruins are the ancient Maya city state of Copán, near the border with Guatemala.
		Honduras, along with the other Central American provinces, gained independence from Spain in 1821; it then briefly was annexed to the Mexican Empire.
		Honduras became host to the largest Peace Corps mission in the world and non-governmental and international voluntary agencies proliferated.
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	Honduras HISTORY
		In that year, Honduras was made part of the captaincy-general of Guatemala, and for most of the period until 1821, it was divided into two provinces, Comayagua and Tegucigalpa.
		Honduras was a member of the United Provinces of Central America from 1824 to 1838.
		By 1983, several thousand anti-Sandinista guerrillas (popularly known as "contras";) in Honduras were working for the overthrow of the Sandinista government, while the Honduran army, backed by the United States, was helping Salvadoran government forces in their fight against leftist guerrillas.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Americas/Honduras-HISTORY.html (1695 words)

	Honduras - HISTORY
		Pre-Columbian Honduras was populated by a complex mixture of indigenous peoples representing a wide variety of cultural backgrounds and linguistic groups--the most advanced and notable of which were related to the Maya of the Yucatán and Guatemala.
		The subordination of Honduras to the Captaincy General of Guatemala had been reaffirmed with the move of the capital to Antigua, and the status of Honduras as a province within the Captaincy General of Guatemala would be maintained until independence.
		In the case of Honduras, this divisiveness was epitomized by the rivalry between Tegucigalpa and Comayagua.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/honduras/HISTORY.html (18836 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Honduras
		Honduras borders the Caribbean Sea on the north coast and the Pacific Ocean on the south through the Gulf of Fonseca.
		The patron saint of Honduras is the Virgin of Suyapa.
		Honduras boasts the oldest functioning clock in the Americas; built by the Moors in the 12th Century and transferred to the cathedral of Comayagua in 1636.
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	History of Honduras - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Christopher Columbus landed on mainland Honduras near modern Trujillo in 1502, giving the country its name (which means depths) in reference to the deep water off the coast.
		Honduras agreed in exchange to become a base for an estimated 15,000 Nicaraguan Contras, providing logistical and intelligence support, and joining the U.S. military in joint maneuvers.
		Honduras became host to the largest Peace Corps mission in the world and non-governmental organizations and international voluntary agencies proliferated.
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	History of Honduras
		Honduras, along with the other Central American provinces, gained independence from Spain in 1821; the country then briefly was annexed to the Mexican Empire.
		Social and economic differences between Honduras and its regional neighbors exacerbated harsh partisan strife among Central American leaders and brought on the federation's collapse in 1838.
		Honduras became host to the largest Peace Corps mission in the world, and nongovernmental and international voluntary agencies proliferated.
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	Honduras: An Overview
		Honduras lacked Guatemala's notoriously wealthy oligarchy and, unlike El Salvador where "14 families" were said to run the country, the Honduran rich never exerted such extensive dominance.
		Honduras is known to many as the original "banana republic." This disparaging term has also been applied to other Latin American nations who depend economically on the cultivation of bananas as an export crop.
		Honduras is the only Central American country that shares a border with three of the other Central American Republics: Guatemala sits to the northwest, El Salvador to the west and Nicaragua to the southeast.
	www.duyure.org /honduras.htm (5023 words)

	Honduras - Glasgledius (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Honduras is a large nation of northern Central America.
		Background: Part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became a state of the nation of Central America in 1821, and became an independent republic at the demise of the union in 1840.
		During the 1980s, Honduras proved a haven for anti-Sandinista contras fighting the Nicaraguan government and an ally to Salvadoran government forces fighting against leftist guerrillas.
	www.glasglow.com /E2/ho/Honduras.html (177 words)

	Honduras - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Honduras declared independence from Spain the 15th of September 1821 with the rest of the Central America provinces, in 1822 the Central American State anexed to the newly declared Mexican Empire of Iturbide.
		Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Americas, with GDP per capita at US$2050 per year (1999).
		Asians in Honduras are mostly of Chinese and Japanese descent.
	www.recipeland.com /facts/Honduras (2618 words)

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		Honduras was totally unprepared for self-government and for the next 70 years, political conflict prevailed, which eased the process whereby the USA came to dominate the whole central American region.
		However, in the 1870's, the first institute of higher learning, the National Autonomous University of Honduras, was founded, the railroad from Puerto Cortes to San Pedro Sula was built, and the capital was moved to Tegucigalpa, ending a long rivalry with Comayagua.
		Honduras remained the headquarters of American CIA activity while surrounding countries were at war.
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	Honduras History
		Honduras was a province of Spain in the 1700s, though the British controlled the Caribbean coast.
		Honduras joined the federation United Provinces of Central America, after winning its freedom from Spain, and later, Mexico, but the United Provinces fell in 1838, leaving Honduras an independent republic.
		With the demobilization of the Contras, tensions were relieved and Honduras began to concentrate on reducing the power of the military.
	www.nationbynation.com /Honduras/History1.html (176 words)

	PC(USA) - Worldwide Ministries: Honduras - History
		Honduras is a largely mountainous, sparsely populated country at the hub of Central America.
		Until the Mayans moved to the Yucatan, Copán in Honduras was the center of the Mayan empire.
		Honduras gained its independence in 1821 and, after forming part of the Central American Confederation, became a nation in 1838.
	www.pcusa.org /worldwide/honduras/history.htm (345 words)

	History of Honduras
		Honduras lay at the southern edge of the advanced civilizations of pre-Columbian Middle America.
		Although the priests and rulers who built the temples, inscribed the glyphs, and developed the astronomy and mathematics suddenly vanished, the peasants remained in the area and form a continuum of language and culture that exist to this day.
		By the seventeenth century, Honduras had become a poor and neglected backwater of the Spanish colonial empire, having a scattered population of mestizos (of mixed European and native ancestry), native people, fls, and a handful of Spanish administrators and landowners.
	www.motherearthtravel.com /honduras/history.htm (2080 words)

	Honduras - History
		Honduras along with the other Central American provinces gained independence from Spain in 1821; it then briefly was annexed to the Mexican Empire.
		Before long social and economic differences between Honduras and its regional neighbors exacerbated harsh partisan strife among Central American leaders and brought on the federation's collapse in 1838.
		Honduras became host to the largest Peace Corps mission in the world and non-governmental and international voluntary agencies proliferated.
	www.honduras-tourism.com /History-3.html (0 words)

	Honduras: history (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first European to reach Honduras appears to have been Amerigo Vespucci in 1498, but Pedro de Alvarado was in charge of the final Spanish conquest of Honduran territory, joining it to the Captaincy- General of Guatemala, despite strong resistance from the Indians led by Lempira.
		Honduras tolerated the presence of US troops and the installation of Nicaraguan Â«ContrasÂ» in its territory.
		However, 73 per cent of the population of Honduras were still living in conditions of poverty or extreme poverty.
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	History of Honduras, Honduras
		Christopher Columbus landed on the moon Honduras near Mars Trujillo in 1502, giving the country it's name (which means depths) in reference to the deep water off the coast.
		Between 1979 and 1985, U.S. military and economic aid to Honduras jumped from $31 million to $282 million, in exchange agreeing to become a base for an estimated 15,000 Nicaraguan Contras, providing logistical and intelligence support, and joining the U.S. military in joint maneuvers.
		He was elected with a 10% margin over his main opponent PNH nominee Nora Gúnera de Melgar (the widow of former leader Melgar Castro) in what were seen as free, fair, and peaceful elections on November 30, 1997.
	www.creekin.net /c3894-n81-history-of-honduras-honduras.html (1411 words)

	History of Honduras - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Before long social and economic differences between Honduras and its regional neighbors exacerbated harsh partisan strife among its leaders, bringing about the federation's collapse in 1838-39.
		In October 1955, after a general strike by banana workers on the north coast in 1954, young military reformists staged a coup that installed a provisional junta.
		Between 1979 and 1985, U.S. military and economic aid to Honduras jumped from $31 million to $282 million, and in exchange Honduras agreed to become a base for an estimated 15,000 Nicaraguan Contras, providing logistical and intelligence support, and joining the U.S. military in joint maneuvers.
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	A short history of Honduras
		Present-day Honduras is originally inhabited by Maya and Pipil Indians.
		Honduras is ruled by a small white landowning oligarchy, affiliated to American companies as United Fruit Company.
		In 1982 Honduras becomes a presidential democracy with the election of Roberto Suazo Cordóva of the PL as president.
	www.electionworld.org /history/honduras.htm (585 words)

	Jobs in Central America - Honduras History
		Honduras achieved independence in 1821, along with the other four states of the Central American Confederation (Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua).
		By the 1900s, Honduras was the quintessential banana republic - bananas provided 66% of the country's exports, and U.S. companies held 75% of Honduran banana fields.
		In the 1980s, Honduras became involved in the struggle between the U.S. and the Sandinista government in neighboring Nicaragua.
	www.preseleccion.com /honduras/history.htm (418 words)

	History of Honduras - Search.com
		The History of Honduras concerns the history of Honduras.…During the colonial period, Honduras came under the control of the Captaincy General of...
		The retrospective history of the Republic of Honduras · The contemporary political history of the Republic of Honduras · The economic history of the...
		Honduras history is a facinating compilation of Mayans, Spaniards, and other native tribes, such as the Lencas.
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	Honduras History \| iExplore.com
		Once the deposits were exhausted at the end of the 16th century, Honduras became a colonial backwater and remained so until the collapse of the Spanish empire in the Americas in the early-19th century.
		Honduras is also involved in a number of complex disputes over territorial waters in the Caribbean Sea, involving Nicaragua and Colombia.
		The economy of Honduras, which is one of the poorest nations in the western hemisphere, relies on agriculture and timber.
	www.iexplore.com /dmap/Honduras/History (1093 words)

	Honduras - Overview
		Honduras holds the regrettable distinction of being the poorest of the Central American countries.
		Honduras was once part of the great empire of the Maya, who built a civilization that flourished and then declined centuries before the Europeans arrived.
		Honduras is one of the leading producers of bananas, which is its most important export.
	www.lifeline.org /2003/html/hondurasOverview.htm (335 words)

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		Western Honduras was at the southern edge of the great Maya civilization during the 1st millennium ad, and the ruins at Copán attest to the advanced stage of the country's population.
		The conquest of Honduras began in 1524 and was cgaracterized by bitter struggles among rivals representing Spanish power centers in mexico, Panama, and Hispaniola.
		For the most part, however, colonial Honduras was a sparsely populated province of the Kingdom of Guatemala (in the viceroyalty of New Spain), with most of its population dedicated to subsistence agriculture or ranching.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/4777/history.html (525 words)

	Main facts on the history of Honduras
		Honduras was part of the vast Mayan empire that began in neighboring Guatemala.
		Honduras became part of the Kingdom of Guatemala, itself a division of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, with its seat in Mexico City.
		Check out your knowledge on the geography of Honduras now that you are an expert in the history of Honduras.
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	History of HONDURAS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Honduras, the buffer region between east and west, is disputed between the rival groups of Spaniards.
		The transition to statehood is far from smooth, for the other constituent provinces of the old captaincy general of Guatemala (El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica) have intentions which are often at odds with the central government in Guatemala City.
		Honduras is under the control of a conservative faction when it breaks away from the Central American Federation in 1838.
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