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Showing Original Post only (View all)Do DUers know that the US Virgin islands were Danish? [View all]
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The total land area of the territory is 133.73 square miles (346.36 km2). The territory's capital is Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas. Previously known as the Danish West Indies of the Kingdom of DenmarkNorway, they were sold to the United States by Denmark in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1917.
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"Those tricky Danes sold us the Virgin Islands when we thought we were buying Greenland!"
struggle4progress
Aug 2019
#2
It includes all of the Caribbean, including Aruba, Trinidad and Tobago & all of the Central America
LeftInTX
Aug 2019
#43
We paid $25M in gold for them in 1917. One more history lesson you made ...
marble falls
Aug 2019
#8
Fascinating - there are many connections with both Barbados and St Kitts and the US
malaise
Aug 2019
#12
And New York City used to be New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can't say.
NightWatcher
Aug 2019
#16
I can say cracker because I come from a long line of... how many of your great uncles have klan uni?
NightWatcher
Aug 2019
#49
Laurance Rockefeller actually owned half of St. John, then gifted it to the US government
onetexan
Aug 2019
#28
Interesting how colonialists can buy and sell what never actually belonged to them.
guillaumeb
Aug 2019
#40