| LC control no. | n 81008536 |
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| Geographic heading | Leeward Islands (Federation) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Leeward Islands (Federation) |
| Variant(s) | Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands Territory of the Leeward Islands Leeward Islands Federal Colony |
| See also | West Indies (Federation) Montserrat Saint Kitts and Nevis Virgin Islands (Great Britain) Antigua Dominica |
| Found in | Wikipedia, Dec. 30, 2005 Leeward Islands (The Leeward Islands also refers to a British colony in these islands, consisting of Antigua, Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla and (to 1940) Dominica, from 1671 to 1816 and again from 1833 to 1960. The colony was known as the Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands from 1871 to 1956 and the Territory of the Leeward Islands from 1956 to 1960) Windward Islands (Windward Islands name was also used to refer to a British colony, existing between 1833 and 1960 and consisting of the islands of Grenada, St. Lucia, Saint Vincent, the Grenadines, Barbados (to 1885, when it became a separate colony), Tobago (to 1889 when it was joined to Trinidad), and Dominica (from 1940, when it was transferred from the Leeward Islands colony to the Windward Islands)) Flags of the world website, Dec. 30, 2005 (Leeward Islands consisted of Antigua, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla and Dominica; Leeward Islands Federal Colony established in 1871. It was a re-organisation of the previously loosely associated islands of Antigua, Montserrat, St Christopher, Nevis, Virgin Islands and Dominica) |
| Geographic area code | nwli--- |
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