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History of Belize in maps
Belize as it appears in 7 interactive history atlases, from 1750 to 2015: Belize, British Honduras, British Honduras / Belize. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Belize before it was Belize? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History atlases — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Belize · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
British Honduras (mod. Belize) · Age of Revolutions
| Britain & its empire — the opening position |
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
British Honduras / Belize · Haiti and Kenya independence
| Under colonial rule — the opening position |
HAITI AND KENYA INDEPENDENCE: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
British Honduras (Belize) · American Civil War
British Honduras — mahogany camps and a colonial port — became, after 1865, one of the refuges of the irreconcilables: a few thousand ex-Confederates emigrated to plant cotton and sugar in Toledo district rather than live under the Union. Most drifted home within a decade, defeated by rain, debt and homesickness. The empty gesture of exile is its own verdict on the Lost Cause: there was no elsewhere.
| Neighbors & the outside world — the opening position |
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Belize · WWI
| Entente-aligned & imperial territories — the opening position |
Belize · Cold War
| NATO & core Western allies — the opening position |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Belize · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Authoritarian, one-party or colonial rule — the opening position | |
| No reform yet / outside this story |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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