Barbados

Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. Stretches of the country along the 34 kilometers and a width of 23 kilometers and thus an area of ​​431 square kilometers. The island is located in the western region of the North Atlantic Ocean, 100 km east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean. Barbados lies about 168 km to the east of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and a distance of 400 km to the north-east of Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados is located outside the main hurricane belt in the Atlantic Ocean.

The island was the beginning of the Portuguese and Spanish colony known as Los Barbados Barbados or AWS, but it became an English colony in 1625 and the British later. Estimated population of about 284 589 people, of whom about 80,000 live in or around Bridgetown, the largest city in the country and its capital. In 1966, Barbados became an independent state within the Commonwealth world, and Queen Elizabeth II has been the leader of the state. Barbados is one of the leading tourist destinations in the Caribbean Islands region and more sophisticated in terms of Human Development Index of 0.788.

There are many hotels Barbados internationally known. There are also many small local hotels and private villas which are spread across the island and can be booked in advance. Southern and western coasts of Barbados popularity, where the calm, blue Caribbean waters and white sandy beaches of the Rosary. Along the island's east coast, which faces the Atlantic Ocean, there are waves of light ideal for skiing. Some areas are still risky due to the marine currents.

Popular shopping areas in Barbados, where shopping is exempt from customs duties. There are also active nightlife in tourist areas such as the mainly St. Lawrence Gap. Attractions include other wildlife reserves, jewelry stores, scuba diving, helicopter rides, golf, festivals (the largest being the annual harvest festival during July / August), sightseeing, and exploring the caves, exotic drinks and shopping.

- Location and Area:

Barbados stretching along 34 kilometers and a width of 23 kilometers and thus an area of ​​431 square kilometers. The island is located in the western region of the North Atlantic Ocean, 100 km east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean. Barbados lies about 168 km to the east of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and a distance of 400 km to the north-east of Trinidad and Tobago.

- Population:

The estimated population of Barbados by 284 thousand people.

- Customs and traditions:

The impact of the English in Barbados on a more prominent than it is in other islands in the West Indies. A good example of this is that the national sport is cricket. Barbados gave birth to many famous cricketers including Sir Garfield Sobers and Frank Worrell.

The largest cultural events on the island is Carnival harvest. As is the case in the Caribbean and other Latin American countries, the harvest most important event for many people on the island, as well as the thousands of tourists who flock to the island to participate in the annual events. The festival includes musical competitions and other traditional activities. As crowned king and queen of the harvest and are more than harvested almost uniformly from sugar cane. Season begins in July and ends the day Kadoment the first two in August

- Etymology:

According to tells about the descendants of tribes Alerawakyin peoples in other regions, the original name for Barbados is Aichiroganaim, which may mean "red earth with white teeth," perhaps because of its rocks red and shelves (slopes beach) white or may be simply "teeth

The Etymology Barbados controversial. The Portuguese were on their way to Brazil, the first Europeans who landed on the island and named it Barbados. The word Barbados means "bearded", but guessing revolves around whether the expression "bearded" refers to the roots of fig trees bearded long dangling, or that the inhabitants of the island Carib peoples were already bearded, or because of sea foam on the sidewalks of the island beach, which gives a picture of a beard. In 1519, the cartographer Aljnoyveskonta Magiwlo status map that identifies the location and naming Barbados correct.

Other names or titles of Barbados "Pim" or "Bamhir" or "Da Rock". The sources of these labels is uncertain, but there are several theories. Says National Cultural Foundation in Barbados that "Pim" a word commonly used by slaves and they are usually derived from the phrase "My Mo" (or "Bam" or "Wendy Bam" or "Noigny IBM" or "Nwoka IBM") of the total language Igbo meaning "my people." In colloquial or literary contexts can be renamed to "Pim" to take a deeper meaning, referring to the "goddess" Barbados.

Pim and recorded the word Bamhir in the Oxford English Dictionary and Chambers dictionaries of the twentieth century. Another possible source for the label "Pim" is an agricultural reporter Rev. Greenidge (father of a months researchers island Apple Indian Jones Greenidge) on April 25, 1868 has proposed the inclusion of Bamhir as a province of England. Called explicitly "Wiltshire and Hampshire and Berkshire and Bemcearogira, pointed Daily Erghose (from French Guiana) in 1652 to" Pim "as a distortion potential of the word" Payam "and who was the leader of a royal against parliamentarians. Suggested that this source is that the followers of Payam known as Pim and became the word for calling all Barbados.

source : startimes.com