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Barbados is an island in the Lesser Antilles, in the Caribbean
region of North America. It is situated in the western area of
the North Atlantic and 100 km (62 mi) east of the Windward
Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about 168 km (104
mi) east of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and
400 km (250 mi) north-east of Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados
is outside the principal Atlantic hurricane belt. Its capital and
largest city is Bridgetown.
Inhabited by Kalinago people since the 13th century, and prior
to that by other Amerindians, Barbados was visited by Spanish
navigators in the late 15th century and claimed for the Spanish
Crown. It first appeared in a Spanish map in 1511. The Por-
tuguese visited the island in 1536, but they left it unclaimed,
with their only remnants being an introduction of wild hogs
for a good supply of meat whenever the island was visited. An
English ship, the Olive Blossom, arrived in Barbados in 1625;
its men took possession of it in the name of King James I. In
1627, the first permanent settlers arrived from England, and it
became an English and later British colony. As a wealthy sugar
colony, it became an English centre of the African slave trade
until that trade was outlawed in 1807, with final emancipation
of slaves in Barbados occurring over a period of years from
1833.

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