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History
In pre-Columbian times Belize was part of the territory of the
Maya.
It was included in the viceroyalty of New Spain in the 1500s,
and sometime later (around 1632) English woodcutters
from Jamaica established a settlement on St. George's Caye
then on the Belize
River (Belize City).
During the wars between England and Spain in the 1700s,
Spain failed to dislodge the British from the area.
In 1836, after the emancipation of Central America from Spanish
rule,
the British claimed the right to administer the region;
it was declared a British colony, subordinate to Jamaica,
in 1862 and an independent crown colony in 1884.
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