Geography Quiz / Previously Named Countries (North America)

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1494-1655: Santiago
Colloquially refered to as the 'Rock', whereof further slang names like 'Jamrock', 'Jamdown', 'Jamdung', or briefly 'Ja', have derived

1542–1821: Viceroyalty of Peru (with neighbors)
1739-1819: (Incorporated into already existing) Viceroyalty of New Granada
1821-1903: Columbia (along with its neighbor)

Indigenous name: Caobana or Coabana
1492: Isla Juana after Juan, Prince of Asturias

14th to 16th centuries: Aztec Empire
1519–1821: Viceroyalty of New Spain (Along with neighbors)
1821-1823: Mexican Empire (with neighbors)

1500 BC - AD 900: Mayan Empire
1821-1823: Mexican Empire (with neighbors)
1862–1981: British Honduras

1493–1795: Captaincy General of Santo Domingo
1625–1804: Saint-Domingue (French Santo Domingo)
Nicknamed the 'Pearl of the Antilles'

Before Independence: Santo Domingo
1821–1822: Republic of Spanish Haiti
1822–1844: Department of Ozama and Cibao (with neighbor)
Poetic name: Quisqueya (occasionally used for entire island)

Larger Island: Originally called Wa'ladli by Arawaks,
is today called Wadadli by locals; Caribs possibly called it Wa'omoni
Columbus may have named it after an icon in the Spanish Seville Cathedral

Wai'tu Kubuli, a former endonym: 'Tall is her body' in the local Carib dialect
Nicknamed the 'Nature Isle of the Caribbean'

Pre-Columbian: Ichirouganaim 'Red land with white teeth',
'Redstone island with teeth outside (reefs)',or simply 'Teeth'
Nicknames: 'Bim' and 'Bimshire'

Columbus: Concepción
Nickname: 'Island of Spice' because of the
production of nutmeg and mace crops

1200-1528: Señorío of Cuzcatlán, or The Lordship of Cuzcatlán
1519–1821: New Spain (with neighbors)
1609–1821: Captaincy General of Guatemala (with neighbors)
1821-1823: Mexican Empire (with neighbors)
1823–1838: Federal Republic of Central America (with neighbors)
1896-1898: Greater Republic of Central America (with 2 neighbors)
1898: 'United States of Central America' (with 2 neighbors)