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About 100 years after Barbados, meaning "the bearded
ones" (for the shaggy exposed roots of the banyan trees), was discovered by the
Portuguese sailor Pedro a Campos, the British arrived and claimed it for King James I in
1625. Until it claimed independence in 1966, the island remained the third oldest in the
Commonwealth. One reason Barbados didn't get caught in the middle of a property war like
most of the Caribbean islands was probably due to location. The extreme easterly location
of the island makes it difficult to approach from the west. |
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