Belize, Belize

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"Great Britain first sent an official representative to the area in the late 18th century but Belize was not formally termed the Colony of British Honduras until 1840."
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"Belize was the site of several Mayan city states until their decline at the end of the first millennium A.D. The British and Spanish disputed the region in the 17th and 18th centuries; it formally became the colony of British Honduras in 1854."
cia.gov

"During the 1860s a large influx of Indians and American Civil War veterans from Louisiana and other Southern states established Confederate settlements in British Honduras and introduced commercial sugar cane production to the colony, establishing eleven settlements in the interior."
en.wikipedia.org

"[1] formerly the colony of British Honduras ,is the only country in Central America without a coastline on the Pacific Ocean (only the Caribbean Sea to its east), and the only one in Central America with English as its official language."
wikitravel.org

"During the 18th century, it grew as a British colony and acquired the name of British Honduras."
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