Bahamas -Amérique du Nord-

Bahamas Islands or officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an English-speaking country and consists of 29 island and 661 of the cays and islets of 2387.
Islands located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola and northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the south-east of the United States of America.
Its total area is 13,939 km 2 and an estimated population of 330,000 and its capital, Nassau. Bahamas is geographically situated in the same series Cuba, Hispaniola and the Turks and Caicos Islands, usually suggest naming the Bahamas to the Commonwealth and not the geographic chain.

Bahamas residents are indigenous Taíno Alorawakjon. The islands were first foothold for Columbus in the New World in 1492. Although the Spaniards did not colonize the colony, but they never were transferred to the indigenous inhabitants of the island of Hispaniola Island as slaves. It abandoned most of the islands between (1513-1650), when settled by British colonists from Bermuda Eleuthera Island.

Bahamas Islands became a crown colony in 1718, where the British end of piracy.

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After the American War of Independence moved thousands of loyal to Britain and enslaved Africans to the Bahamas and set up the farm economy.

The slave trade was abolished in the British Empire in 1807, where many Africans settled survivors of slave ships liberated the hands of the Royal Navy in the Bahamas Islands during the nineteenth century. Abolished slavery itself in 1834 where the descendants of African descent the bulk of the population of the Bahamas today.

Origin of the name "Bahamas Islands" is not clear. It could return to the Spanish language ( "shallow sea") or to nominate indigenous to the island of Grand Bahama, "Ba-Ha-what" any (large) upper middle ground.