Guadeloupe (; ; Antillean Creole: Gwadloup ) is a Caribbean island located in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, with a land area of 1, 628 square kilometres ( 629 sq.

While only the Carib remain among the original Antillean populations of Ciboney, Taino, and Carib, the Orinoco Arawak tribes, who served as the root of all the before-mentioned groups of island people, have also survived on mainland South America.

The second piculet subfamily, Nesoctitinae, has a single species, the Antillean Piculet, which is restricted to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.

The music of Dominica plays an important role in the social and culture life of the Antillean island of Dominica.

The Lesser Antillean Iguana varies in color between different island populations, but the base color tends to be gray, with green splotching on the underside.

ALM Antillean Airlines ( Dutch: Antilliaanse Luchtvaart Maatschappij ) was the main airline of the Netherlands Antilles between its foundation in 1964 and its shut-down in 2001, operating out of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao.

Besides tumbas, there is a very rich tradition of Antillean waltzes, mazurkas, danzas and pasillos that are popular in Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba.

In Jocelyn Guilbault ’ s seminal book on the subject, Zouk: World Music in the West Indies, she states that “ Zouk is the creation of black, Creole-speaking Antillean artists ,” and puts forth the theory that it is the product of the struggle to form some kind of national identity among the four islands, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, and St. Lucia.

* Caribbean guilder, the new currency for Curaçao and Sint Maarten for 2012 replacing the Netherlands Antillean guilder.

* noun: Netherlands Antillean ( s )

* adjective: Netherlands Antillean

Tourism, petroleum transshipment, and offshore finance were the mainstays of the Netherlands Antillean economy, which was closely tied to the outside world.

1 Netherlands Antillean guilder, gulden, or florin ( NAf.

Netherlands Antillean guilders, gulden, or florins ( NAf.

The Netherlands Antillean guilder is currently the only guilder which is in use, which after the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles remained the currency of the new countries Curaçao and Sint Maarten and ( until 1 January 2011 ) the Caribbean Netherlands.

** Netherlands Antillean guilder ( Curaçao and Sint Maarten ).

Then it was purchased for 9 million Netherlands Antillean guilder ( US $ 5 million ) by the government of Bonaire, the World Nature Fund, and the Foundation to Preserve Klein Bonaire.

* The Netherlands Antillean guilder ( abbreviated ANG ) is also known as a " florin ", and abbreviated NAFl

* Netherlands Antillean gulden

* May 2 – After several unsuccessful attempts to land at Princess Juliana International Airport on St. Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles due to poor weather, ALM Antillean Airlines Flight 980, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-33F, runs out of fuel and ditches in the Caribbean Sea, killing 23 of the 63 people on board and injuring 37 of the 40 survivors.

* ANG, ISO 4217 currency code for the Netherlands Antillean guilder

A ¼-½-1 series (... 0. 1 0. 25 0. 5 1 2. 5 5 10 ...) is used by currencies derived from the former Dutch gulden ( Aruban florin, Netherlands Antillean gulden, Surinamese dollar ), some Middle Eastern currencies ( Iraqi and Jordanian dinars, Lebanese pound, Syrian pound ), and the Seychellois rupee.

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Typical fauna seen in the area includes the Hispaniolan Palm Crow ( Corvus palmarum palmarum ), Antillean Siskin ( Carduelis dominicensis ), Rufous-throated Solitaire ( Myadestes genibarbis ), Hispaniolan Crossbill ( Loxia megaplaga ) ( abundance directly related to pine cone crop ), and Hispaniolan Trogon ( Priotelus roseigaster ), while at lower elevations the Hispaniolan Amazon ( Amazona ventralis ), Scaly-naped Pigeon ( Patagioenas squamosa ) and Golden Swallow ( Tachycineta euchrysea ) can be seen.

It is distinct from Tobagonian Creole, particularly at the basilectal level, and from other Lesser Antillean English creoles.

In addition the Green iguana has been interbreeding with the Lesser Antillean Iguana and this hybridization has been the number one reason for decline on at least three of the islands: Les Iles des Saintes, Basse Terre ( Guadeloupe ) and St. Barthélemy.

Captive Lesser Antillean iguanas are currently kept at the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, Chester Zoo, Memphis Zoo and the San Diego Zoo ’ s Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species.

Popular music during this time was mostly zouk, a style pioneered by the French Antillean band Kassav, who used styles of folk music of Martinique and Guadeloupe.

Because the islands are divided linguistically, the term Antillean music is usually used in reference to one such music area.

La Woz ( Antillean Creole for " The Rose ") is one of the two historic cultural societies ( sociétés ) of the Antillean country of Saint Lucia.

This sound was one of the Hispanic Antillean variants of the multifarious cultural manifestations of the African Diaspora.

Category: Dutch Antillean expatriate baseball players in Japan

Category: Dutch Antillean baseball players

Category: Dutch Antillean expatriate baseball players in Japan

There was an additional republican secessionist process in the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia, a Cantonal republican uprising in Murcia and Andalucía, and a constant political tug of war between the Antillean Criollo Spaniards ( Cuban and Puerto Rican ) abolitionists and slavers.

English is the official language and universally understood ; however, because of historic French domination, Antillean Creole, a French-lexified creole language, is also widely spoken.

On 20 January 2009, an umbrella group of approximately fifty labour union and other associations known in the local Antillean Creole as the Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon ( LKP ) led by Élie Domota called for a € 200 ($ 260 USD ) monthly pay increase for the island's low income workers.

Its geology is similar to that of other volcanic islands in the Lesser Antillean Archipelago.

Geologically, the islands are not part of the Antillean arc.

Road sign in Antillean Creole | Guadeloupe Creole meaning Slow down.

Creole, " Kreyol " or " Kweyol " also refers to the creole languages in the Caribbean, including Antillean Creole, Haitian Creole, and Jamaican Creole, among others.

Calypso is part of a spectrum of similar folk and popular Caribbean styles that spans benna and mento, but remains the most prominent genre of Lesser Antillean music.

The Antillean ( West Indian ) fauna.

Most notably, the relationship of the picine genera has been largely clarified, and it was determined that the Antillean Piculet is a surviving offshoot of proto-woodpeckers.

* Hunt, Jeffrey S .; Bermingham, Eldredge ; & Ricklefs, Robert E. ( 2001 ): Molecular systematics and biogeography of Antillean thrashers, tremblers, and mockingbirds ( Aves: Mimidae ).

Zouk means " party " or " festival " in the local Antillean Creole of French, although the word originally referred to, and is still used to refer to, a popular dance, based on the Polish dance, the mazurka, that was introduced to the French Caribbean in the 19th Century.

By the 1980s, makossa had moved to Paris and a new pop-makossa that fused elements of Antillean zouk.

The quadrille is an important symbol of French Antillean culture, and is, on Dominica, typically accompanied by a kind of ensemble called a jing ping band.