Mary ガラント island
| Mary = ガラント island | |
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| Coordinate | 15°56'N 61°16'W / 15.933 degrees N 61.267 degrees W coordinate: 15°56'N 61°16'W / 15.933 degrees N 61.267 degrees W |
| Area | 158.01 km² |
| Mayor of shoreline | 84 km |
| The best altitude | 204 m |
| Location sea area | The Caribbean Sea |
| Position country, area |  France |
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Mary = ガラント island (Mary = ガラント father, Île de Marie-Galante) is an island belonging to French possession Guadeloupe where the Caribbean Sea floats in the Leeward Islands of small Antilles Islands. The economy is sugar traditionally, and fishery and the sightseeing are prosperous, too. There are Grand = Bour, カペステール = ド = Mary = ガラント, the commune of three sun = Louis in the island. The greatest commune of the island is Grand = Bour
History
In the third century, an Arawakan settled down in the island and called an island toe Luke gills (Touloukaéra). A Caribbean family conquered an island in the ninth century and called it Aichi (Aïchi) who meant "an island of the cotton" or アウリナガン (Aulinagan). Indigenous people cultivated a cassava and knew cultivation and the effect of the medicinal herb. I performed the fishery. In the remains of their cave and village under the ground, hieroglyph in conjunction with the religion and earthenware are found. Christopher Columbus went ashore on the occasion of the second voyage in the island in 1493 and assumed it the name of the island after the name of flagship Maria ガランダ. Approximately 50 French settlers settled in the fort of the island for the first time in 1649. The second fort was next to Grand = Bour in 1653 and was built. The on a raid French settler of the Caribbean family which followed until 1660 was forced to difficult life. In 1660, the peace treaty with the settler was concluded with an indigenous people in bus = tail island.
A cigarette, indigo, coffee beans, raw cotton have been cultivated in the island. At the mid-17th century, an African slave for plantation cultivation was brought for the first time to the Mary = ガラント island. Approximately 57% of population of the island was African, and they came to be occupied in 1671. In addition, a Jewish Dutchman was ousted from Brazil and emigrated to Mary = ガラント, and they brought in sugarcane cultivation and a technique.
In 1676, a Netherlands fleet struck the island and expelled inhabitants and confiscated the property of inhabitants. Even if colonization was carried out newly, new inhabitants received an attack by several times of Netherlands.
The U.K. competed against France over the possession of the Mary = ガラント island five times from 1692 through 1816. In this time, the island became independent from 1792 through 1794. In 1790, there were approximately 11,500 inhabitants in Mary = ガラント, and 9,400 people of those were slaves.
In 1838, Grand = Bour was caught in a big fire, and an earthquake was generated in an island in 1843.
The slave revolt and the French abolitionist gained an abolition in 1848. However, this was not able to stop the violence from a settler. By the parliamentary election of 1849, the police which a large-scale farming owner against an abolition organized suppressed a former slave. You had to wait until 1920 so that descendants of former slave became an owner of the sugar industry of Mary = ガラント.
In 1865, cyclone and cholera greatly decreased the population of the island. In 1902, the second big fire took Grand = Bour. Big cyclone strikes the island in 1928 and 1995.
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