St Martin best beach,st martin beach hotel,St Maartin
history,Orinco River Basin,Arawaks is presented
First, listen up to the island jazz below if you want some pleasure, by the way the story of St. Martin/Maarten begins far to the south, in a
region of the Amazon jungle known as the Orinoco river basin. It was from here
that the island's first inhabitants--the Arawaks--migrated about a thousand
years ago. They island-hopped north through the Caribbean, living peacefully
off the bounty of the surrounding sea. The Arawaks who came to St. Maarten
called their new home "Sualouiga," or "Land of Salt,"
naming it after the island's abundant salt pans.
The tranquility of the Arawaks would not last for
long. They were followed by another Amazonian group, the Caribs. A warrior
people, the Caribs steadily pushed the Arawaks off St. Maarten and took the
island for themselves--only to lose it in turn to the Europeans. Christopher
Columbus sighted the island on November 11, 1493.
With the end of the Eighty Years' War between Spain
and the Netherlands, the Spanish no longer needed a base in the Caribbean. They
left St. Maarten, and the island was soon claimed by both the French (who
sailed over from St. Kitts) and the Dutch (from St. Eustatius). After some
skirmishes, the two powers signed a treaty in 1648 which divided the island
between them.
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