Gran colombia is the name historians use to refer to the state, then known simply as colombia. Gran colombia historical republic, south america britannica. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read colombia. However, gran colombia is in a sense an artificial term, as the country was always referred to simply as colombia. Gran colombia, shortlived republic 181930, formerly the viceroyalty of new. A decadeslong conflict between government forces, paramilitaries, and antigovernment insurgent groups heavily funded by the drug trade, principally the revolutionary armed forces of colombia farc, escalated during the 1990s. As the collapse of the country became evident in 1830, bolivar resigned from the presidency. It then split up into venezuela, ecuador and the republic of new granada in 1830.
The national library of colombia is generally considered to be the oldest national library in the americas. A country of northwest south america with coastlines on the pacific ocean and the caribbean sea. Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, ipad, iphone and android. Partly printed document signed simon bolivar, with extensive flourish, as president of colombia, bogota, 30 april 1829. After ruling as dictator from 1828 to 1830, bolivar convoked a convention to.
When the spanish arrived in 1499 they initiated a period of conquest and colonization resulting in the creation of the viceroyalty of new granada comprising modern. The term gran colombia is used today to refer to the federation that was formed between the republics of ecuador, venezuela, colombia and panama before 1830. Miradas cruzadas entre colombia y venezuela openedition books. In six books of the commonwealth 1576, his canonical study of sovereignty, the. Republic of gran colombia project gutenberg selfpublishing. The comunero revolution in colombia, 1781 by john leddy phelan, coffee and conflict in colomb. The constitution of 22 may, 1858, changed new granada into a confederation of 8 states, under the name of confederation granadina. However, the new republic was unstable and three countries emerged from the collapse of gran colombia in 1830 new granada, ecuador and venezuela.
Tomo i 1808 1830 ebook written by eduardo posada carbo. T he republic of colombia, which in colonial days was called viceroyalty of new granada, gained its independence of spain in 1819, and was officially constituted 17 dec. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. The official name of the country at the time was the republic of colombia. Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of gran colombia in 1830 the others being ecuador and venezuela.
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