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BERMUDEZ , a N.E. See also:

state of See also:

VENEZUELA

Venezuela, between the Carib-See also:

BEAN (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Bohne)

bean See also:

Sea and the See also:

ORINOCO

Orinoco See also:

RIVER

river, bounded E. by the gulf of Paria and the See also:

DELTA (from the shape of the Gr. letter A, delta, originally used of the mouth of the Nile)

Delta-Arnacuro territory, and W. by the states of See also:

GUARICO

Guarico and See also:

MIRANDA, FRANCESCO (c. 1754-1816)

Miranda. Pop. (est. 1905) 364,158. It was created in 1881 by the See also:

union of the states of See also:

BARCELONA

Barcelona, See also:

CUMANA

Cumana and See also:

MATURIN, CHARLES ROBERT (1782-1824)

Maturin, dissolved in 1901 into its three See also:

ORIGINAL

original states, and reorganized in 1904 with a slight modification of territory. The state includes the See also:

OLDEST

oldest settlements in Venezuela, and was once very prosperous, producing See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle and exporting hides, but See also:

WARS

wars and See also:

POLITICAL

political disorders have partly destroyed its See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries andimpeded their development. Its See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal productions are See also:

COFFEE (Fr: cafe, Ger. Kaffee)

coffee, See also:

SUGAR

sugar, and cacao, and—less important—cotton, See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco, cocoanuts, See also:

TIMBER

timber, See also:

INDIGO (earlier indico, from Lat. indicum, the Indian sub-stance or dye; the Sans. name was niti, from nila, dark blue, and this through Arab. al-nil, annil, gives " aniline ")

indigo and dyewoods. Its more important towns are the See also:

capital, Barcelona, Maturin (pop. 14,473), capital of a See also:

DISTRICT

district of the same name, and Cumana (to,000), on the gulf of See also:

CARIACO, or SAN FELIPE DE AUSTRIA

Cariaco, founded in 1520 and one of the oldest towns of the See also:

CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

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