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Charlotte Amalie

Charlotte Amalie

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Charlotte Amalie , town (2010 pop. 10,354), capital of the Virgin Islands of the United States, on St. Thomas Island. It is the commercial center of the islands, a free port, and a popular tourist resort. Founded in the late 17th cent., Charlotte Amalie was a center of Danish colonial life. It became important as a trading center during the American Civil War. It was renamed St. Thomas in 1921, but the former Danish name was restored in 1937. The town still retains a Danish flavor in its architecture and street names; it has one of the oldest synagogues in the New World. The St. Thomas campus of the Univ. of the Virgin Islands is outside the town.

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Charlotte Amalie

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Charlotte Amalie, US Virgin Islands Tap Hus, St Thomas Founded as a Danish colony in 1672 with a name meaning ‘Rum House’, it was renamed in 1730 after Charlotte (1650–1714), wife of King Christian V of Denmark. It was sometimes also called Amalienborg, the name of the royal palace in Copenhagen. The USA bought the islands in 1917. Between 1921 and 1936 the city was called St Thomas after the island of which it is the capital; the town is also the capital of the US Virgin Islands.
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