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	Greater Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greater Colombia (Gran Colombia in Spanish) is a name used today for the Republic of Colombia of the period 1819-1831.
		The official name at the time was the Republic of Colombia, as it is today; historians have adopted the term "Greater Colombia" to distinguish the Republic before 1831 (with its more extensive land area) from that of the present-day Republic of Colombia.
		The constitution of the new republic was drafted in 1821 at the Congress of Cúcuta, establishing its capital in Bogotá.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Republic_of_Gran_Colombia (804 words)

	Colombia HISTORY
		During his tenure as president, the republican constitution of 1886 was adopted, under which the State of New Granada formally became the Republic of Colombia.
		The postwar period was marked by growing social unrest and riots in the capital and in the countryside.
		The adoption of the Plan Colombia in 2000, a multimillion dollar initiative funded by the US government, aimed at combating drug production generated criticism for its heavy focus on military action rather than economic incentives that could lead peasants to abandon the coca leaf plantation.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Americas/Colombia-HISTORY.html (2112 words)

	Gran Colombia ~ 1822-1830 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Republic of Colombia, formerly the Viceroyalty of Grenada, (1822-1830) included the greater part of the modern nations of Colombia, Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador.
		The stamp from Venezuela shows the approximate borders of the Republic of Colombia and was issued in 1969 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of “Gran Colombia,” a name given to the republic by historians.
		In 1929 Venezuela withdrew from the republic, Peru invaded Ecuador and Colombian troops under Sucre defeat the Peruvians at the Battle of Tarqui.In 1961 Ecuador issued a set of three stamps with a map to commemorate the 132nd anniversary of the defeat of Peru in the battle of Tarqui.
	sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/grancolombia.htm (150 words)

	Great Colombia Federate Republic (1819-1830) - Part 1
		The Gran Colombia Tricolour was originally the family/personal Flag of Francisco de Miranda.
		On 17 december 1819 the Republic of Colombia was proclaimed (historicaly known as Great Colombia but then called only Colombia), under the conservative leader Bolivar, with three departments (Venezuela, Cundinamarca and nominally Quito that was still in hands of royalists).
		On 11 July 1822 Guayaquil was incorporated and Republic of Colombia (known as Great Colombia) reached its final configuration (Puerto Cabello was conquered some months later and on 1 June 1824 was the last battle against the pro-spanish forces.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/co-gran.html (1840 words)

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		The population of Colombia was estimated at 42,954,279 in 2005.
		Colombia was freed from Spanish rule in 1819 by patriots led by Simon de Bolivar.
		Gran Colombia dissolved in 1830 and Colombia and Panama formed the state of Nueva Granada.
	worldmostbeautifulbeaches.com /colombia-general-information.htm (843 words)

	.:Colombia::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Colombia ranks second in population and fourth in area among the countries of South America.
		Colombia is one of Latin America's largest exporters of oil to the United States.
		Colombia also has large reserves of natural gas and iron ore. In addition, it is one of the world's leading producers of high-quality emeralds.
	www.khmerfriend.com /World_Map/Colombia.aspx (3985 words)

	Colombian Gold Coins - Columbia
		Colombia is in the north west of South America.
		Independence was declared in 1810, and secured in 1819 when Simon Bolivar united Colombia, Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador as the Republic of Gran Colombia, although Venezuela withdrew in 1829, Ecuador in 1830, and Panama in 1903.
		Colombia in common with most latin american countries has experienced inflation, so that it has issued gold coins with a denominations as low as 1 peso, and as high as 100,000 pesos.
	www.taxfreegold.co.uk /colombia.html (346 words)

	Dominican Republic HISTORY
		The eastern part of the island of Hispaniola was originally known as Quisqueya, meaning "mother of all lands." It was first settled by the nomadic and warlike Carib Amerindians and later by the agricultural and peace-loving Arawaks.
		After a 17-year dictatorship, the Dominican Republic entered a turbulent period characterized by general political instability and increasing debt to US interests.
		The military, which overthrew Bosch in September 1963, proceeded to install a three-man civilian junta, called the Triumvirate, which was in turn overthrown by the supporters of Juan Bosch in April 1965.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Americas/Dominican-Republic-HISTORY.html (1626 words)

	HISTORY
		This controversial approach was illustrated by the case of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellin cartel, who was confined in sumptuous luxury in his native Medellin until he voluntarily became a fugitive and was killed.
		It consisted of the present states of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela, and its capital was Bogota.
		The remaining territory became the Republic of New Granada in 1831.
	home1.gte.net /gomezedg/History.htm (1858 words)

	South American Wars
		Bolivar's goal of uniting Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador into the centralised Republic of Gran Colombia he proclaimed in Cœcuta in 1821 did not materialise as Venezuela broke away in 1829 and Ecuador followed suit in 1830.
		Colombia suffered 8 debilitating civil wars in the 19th century as power passed from one party to the other and centralist constitutions were replaced by federalist ones and vice versa.
		When Ecuador broke away from Gran Colombia in 1830, it signed a treaty with Peru defining their common boundary along the Marañon river.
	berclo.net /page94/94en-hist-sam-wars.html (2282 words)

	Timeline Colombia
		Colombia had been plunged into bankruptcy and subsequent civil war in 1899 after three years of steep declines in world coffee prices.
		Misael Pastrana, was elected mayor of Bogota, Colombia.
		2001 Oct 8, In Bogota, Colombia, Luis Alfredo Colmenares, a representative from Arauca, was assassinated by gunmen on a motorcycle.
	www.timelines.ws /countries/COLOMBIA.HTML (14804 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Rough Cut . Colombia: This Little Old Town . Background Facts and Related Links \| PBS
		The country was formed after the Republic of Gran Colombia (Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela) dissolved in 1829.
		Colombia is one of the largest recipients of United States foreign aid, receiving about $740 million a year through Washington's controversial "Plan Colombia" counter-narcotics operation.
		A special report looks in depth at the era of Colombia's powerful drug cartels and at today's right-wing paramilitary groups who are thought to control the coca fields, processing labs and major smuggling routes that define a new era in drug trafficking.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/rough/2006/01/rc_16_columbialinks.html (1064 words)

	Great Colombia Federate Republic (1819-1830) - Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Its probable that the Coat of Arms was located at the center if we considered that the Republics of Colombia and Ecuador at the moment maintain in their flags their respective blazons in the same location.
		Great Colombia Federal Republic, 1822(?): It's a variant of the previous artistic representation in which the Chief Quarter of the Coat of Arms shows nine stars of six points in reference to another proposal of geopolitical division for the country.
		It is a regular 2:2 flag, with the Great Colombia tricolori (yellow-blue-red) with equal heigth stripes, and the Great Colombian CoA centered (without the caption REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA around it), and a tricolori ribbon heading the arms (a phallanx, a bundle of arrows and a bow, a right facing ax and two upside looking cornucopias).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/co-gran1.html (403 words)

	colombia map and map of colombia and information page
		Colombia's history began well over 13,000 years ago, as evidence of human occupation dates to that era.
		The Spanish arrived along the coastal areas of Colombia in the early 1500s and the country became Spain's chief source of gold; Cartagena and Bogota were founded by mid-century.
		Spain eventually increased taxation of the colonists to fund their home-front war expenses, and the subsequent anger and uprising that occurred were the seeds of the revolution to come.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/samerica/co.htm (919 words)

	Venezuela
		Venezuela, along with what are now Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, was part of the Republic of Gran Colombia until 1830, when it separated and became a sovereign country.
		Deep divisions between Vietnamese communist and non-communist nationalists soon began to surface, however, especially in the south, and with the arrival of Allied forces later in September, the DRV was forced to begin negotiations with the French on their future relationship.
		The assembly ratified the reunification of the country and on July 2 renamed it the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV).
	www.geocities.com /afgh_friends/v_countries.htm (3121 words)

	g. Venezuela, Nueva Granada, and Quito (Gran Colombia). 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		In Bogotá;, the republic of Cundinamarca was inaugurated.
		Alexandre Pétion, to whom he promised to abolish slavery in the future republic.
		The congress of Angostura approved the fundamental law creating Gran Colombia, a republic based on the union of Venezuela and Nueva Granada.
	www.bartleby.com /67/1650.html (674 words)

	Colombia and the Paradox of Intervention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		What is surprising about Colombia is that in spite of these troubled legacies, it has continued to survive as a troubled but functioning state, both within the international system, and in its ability to undergo reform and change.
		Likewise, Colombia has a vigorous culture that features great writers such as Gabriel García Márquez (whose novel One Hundred Years of Solitude remains an international classic, and was the basis of his 1982 Nobel prize) as well as films such as The Strategy of the Snail (La estrategia del caracol).
		Colombia also has own diverse music and dance forms that are now being revived as part of a wider revival of folk forms.
	www.international-relations.com /WbLatinAmerica/WBLA-Lec5-2003.htm (10599 words)

	LATIN AMERICAN MSS.--COLOMBIA
		Manuscripts from the colonial period deal with the functioning of the Catholic Church, regulation of the clergy, appointment of government officials, and colonial administration.
		The war of independence and, concomitant with it, the Republic of Gran Colombia are the topics of many of the documents.
		The national period of Colombia's history is represented largely by correspondence of some of the presidents of Colombia, the Papers relating to the Compagnie Franco-Colombienne pour l'exploitation des mines de fer de Cundinamarca et Boyaca, and an 1853 plan for the economic development of Colombia.
	www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/latinamcolo.html (311 words)

	Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL
		ICSPS 1968: "Dissatisfaction with its backwater, provincial status led to secession from Colombia in 1841 [1840?] and for thirteen months the region was established as the independent state of the Isthmus of Panama" (page 8).
		McCain 1967: In 1886 "the government of the Republic of Colombia became highly centralized, and Panama was made the object of invidious discrimination by being transformed into the equivalent of a crown colony" (page 10).
		Musicant 1990: "Its second article was the most significant: ‘The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of a zone of land...for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of said Canal of the width of ten miles’" (page 136).
	sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/panama/1821.html (3758 words)

	Colombia
		Illegal trade in cocaine; Colombia is one of the world's main producers of coca, the raw material for cocaine; it is estimated that drug money accounted for about 2% of GDP in 2000; still the main source of illegal cocaine in the USA Imports machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, minerals, food, metals.
		1819 Venezuelan freedom fighter Simón Bolívar, ‘the Liberator’, who had withdrawn to Colombia in 1814, raised a force of 5,000 British mercenaries and defeated the Spanish at the battle of Boyacá, establishing Colombia's independence; Gran Colombia formed, also comprising Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela.
		Federalizing, anti-clerical Liberals came to power, with the country divided into nine largely autonomous ‘sovereign’ states; the church was disestablished.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/countryfacts/colombia.html (1113 words)

	EduNETConnect.com - Time Machine - South America
		In 1819, the republic of Gran Colombia is established with Bolivar as president.
		After the death of Bolivar in 1830, Gran Colombia breaks up into the republics of Colombia (called New Granada until 1861), Venezuela and Ecuador.
		Peace was made in 1828 with Uruguay established as an independent republic.
	www.edunetconnect.com /TimeMachine/southamerica-150.php (650 words)

	Dominican Republic - HAITI AND SANTO DOMINGO
		In recognition of his leadership against the Spanish (under whose banner he had begun his military career), the British, and rebellious royalists and mulattoes, Toussaint was named governor general of Saint-Domingue by the French Republic in 1796.
		Cáceres requested admission to the Republic of Gran Colombia (consisting of what later became Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela), recently proclaimed established by Simón Bolívar and his followers.
		While the request was in transit, however, the president of Haiti, Jean-Pierre Boyer, decided to invade Santo Domingo and to reunite the island under the Haitian flag.
	countrystudies.us /dominican-republic/4.htm (1669 words)

	Ecuador Coins
		Ecuador was discovered in 1534 by the Spanish under Francisco Pizarro, and by 1534 spain had invaded and subdued the previously thriving Inca Empire.
		It remained under Spanish domination until a successful revolt on 24th May 1822, led by Antonio Sucre, and joined Simon Bolivar's Republic of Gran Colombia.
		When Gran Colombia collapsed in 1830, Ecuador, the "Republic of the Equator" emerged as an independent state.
	www.24carat.co.uk /ecuador.html (181 words)

	Venezuela 1996 - Images
		Venezuela became, after the revolutionary war, along with Colombia and Ecuador part of the Republic of Gran Colombia (República de Gran Colombia) until 1830, when the country separated and became a sovereign republic.
		Chávez was elected president in 1998 with 56% of the vote as part of a new political party, the Movement for the Fifth Republic.
		His platform ("Bolivarian revolution") called for the signing of a new constitution, which was written by a Constituent Assembly and approved by referendum in 1999.
	www.mongabay.com /venezuela_index.htm (910 words)

	Comparative Criminology \| South America - Ecuador
		Today, Ecuador is a constitutional republic with a 123-member unicameral legislature that was chosen in free elections in May 1998.
		Even though the AVC had a low potential for subversive action and numbered only 200 to 300 activists, Ecuador was determined to avoid a situation like that in the neighboring nations of Peru and Colombia, where large, well-organized, and violent guerrilla organizations presented a grave challenge to the authority of the state.
		Between mid-1986 and mid-1987, the AVC kidnapped two journalists, killed four policemen in a rescue operation to free one of its members being treated in a hospital, robbed five banks and a factory, and took over several radio stations, forcing them to broadcast AVC manifestos.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/samerica/ecuador.html (7365 words)

	Bolivar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In 1819 Bolivar led the congress that organized the republic of Gran Colombia, which at first included Colombia and Venezuela.
		But in 1830, Bolivar's dream to become the 'Washington' of Latin America faded when the republic of Gran Colombia split into three separate states.
		Bolivar resigned as president of Colombia in the same year.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/persons6_n2/bolivar.html (154 words)

	Villa Rental, Dominican Republic; Villa Costa Norte, Caribbean Rental Villa
		The remainder of the island, by then known as Santo Domingo, sought to gain its own independence in 1821, but was conquered and ruled by the Haitians for 22 years; it finally attained independence as the Dominican Republic in 1844.
		A legacy of unsettled, mostly non-representative, rule for much of its subsequent history was brought to an end in 1966 when Joaquin Balaguer became president.
		The Dominican Republic is a Caribbean representative democracy which enjoyed GDP growth of more than 7% in 1998-2000.
	www.villacostanorte.com /plan/Dominican_Republic.html (2175 words)

	History of Ecuador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In 1563, Quito became the seat of a royal "audiencia" (administrative district) of Spain.
		After independence forces defeated the royalist army in 1822, Ecuador joined Simon Bolivar's Republic of Gran Colombia, only to become a separate republic in 1830.
		Congress met in emergency session in Guayaquil the same day, January 22, and ratified Noboa as President of the Republic in constitutional succession to Mahuad.
	www.historyofnations.net /southamerica/ecuador.html (1013 words)

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