Flying Together 4-Jamaica
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FLYING TOGETHER: IV -<br />
JAMAICA: THE LAND WE LOVE<br />
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During his second voyage to the Americas, Christopher Columbus learned of <strong>Jamaica</strong> from<br />
the indigenous people on the island of Cuba. He set foot on the northern part of <strong>Jamaica</strong>, at<br />
present-day Saint Ann's Bay, on May 4, 1494. After defeating the Tainos' initial resistance,<br />
Columbus seized the island for Spain. Spain sent Juan de Esquivel to establish a settlement<br />
in 1509, beginning Spain's effective colonization of <strong>Jamaica</strong>. The Spanish established Sevilla<br />
la Nueva on the northern part of the island as their first administrative center but abandoned<br />
it in 1523 for Saint Jago de la Vega (now Spanish Town) in the south.<br />
Columbus named it St. Iago.= Santiago = Saint-James<br />
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