Saint Barth

(place) by li (9 mon) Sat Apr 01 2000 at 12:33:46

A caribbean island belonging to the French West Indies (a province of France).

Also known as Saint Barts; Saint Barthelemy.

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(place) by EverybodysCyclopedia (8.7 mon) Fri Sep 01 2006 at 20:45:04

St. Bartholomew, or St. Barthelemy, a French West Indian island, 190 miles E. of Porto Rico; area, 8 square miles. The treeless surface rises to 1,003 feet; the climate is very dry. French from 1648 till 1784, the island then was Swedish till 1877, when it was bought back by France for $80,000.

Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.

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