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Preferred term

British West Indies  

Entry terms

  • Antilles, British
  • British Antilles
  • Indies, British West
  • Lesser Antilles (British West Indies)
  • West Indies, British

Scope note

  • name applied to islands of West Indies which were colonies of Great Britain, including Jamaica, the Bahamas, the Leeward and Windward Isles, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago; some of the islands are still British dependencies

Notation

  • 29327

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/45G-VWFXP882-6

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