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New Granada

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
New Granada , former Spanish colony, N South America. It included at its greatest extent present Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. Between 1499 and 1510 a host of conquerors explored the Caribbean coast of Panama and South America. After 1514, Pedro Arias de Ávila was successful in assuring permanent colonization of the isthmus of Panama. At Santa Marta (1525) and Cartagena (1533), Spanish control of the Colombian coast was firmly established, and in the next few years the northern hinterland was explored. German adventurers, notably Nikolaus Federmann, penetrated the Venezuelan... Read more
New Granada
A Dictionary of World History New Granada A former Spanish viceroyalty in north-west South America that comprised present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. Read more
Viceroyalty of New Granada
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ... 151; that included the modern countries of Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, and Ecuador. Its capital was Santa Fe (modern Bogota ). It was liberated from Spain in 1823. Viceroyalty of New Granada Viceroyalty of New Granada Viceroyalty of New Granada Read more

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