British Guiana
Britishnoun
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Venezuelan officials also argue that an agreement among Venezuela, Britain and the then colony of British Guiana signed in 1966 to resolve the dispute effectively nullified the original arbitration.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2023
Along Venezuela’s eastern border, anticolonial leaders in what was then British Guiana were agitating for independence.
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2023
The border dispute with Venezuela dates to the early 1800s and British Guiana, as pre-independence Guyana was known.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023
Guyana brought a case in 2018 asking the court to confirm the border was established by a 1899 arbitration process between Venezuela and the then-colony of British Guiana.
From Reuters • Nov. 17, 2022
Her great-grandfather served as a headman on one of the largest plantations in British Guiana, Port Mourant.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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