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History of Panama in maps
Panama as it appears in 6 interactive history atlases, from 1750 to 2015: Panama. 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 Panama before it was Panama? 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.
Panama · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Agrarian economy |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Panama · Age of Revolutions
| Colonial possessions — the opening position | |
| Republics & revolutionary states |
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Panama · Haiti and Kenya independence
In 1826 Panama, then part of Gran Colombia, hosted Bolívar’s Congress of the new American republics. Haiti, the second independent state in the Americas and Bolívar’s own supplier of guns and ships, was not invited, although the United States was. The snub showed how far the fear of Haiti’s example reached among the creole elites of the new republics.
| Under colonial rule — the opening position | |
| Other states and societies |
HAITI AND KENYA INDEPENDENCE: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Panama · WWI
| The Entente & Allies — the opening position | |
| The Entente & Allies |
Panama · Cold War
| US-aligned states — the opening position |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Panama · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Partial or unequal; treaty signed only; transition — the opening position | |
| Right won in law | |
| No reform yet / outside this story | |
| Right won in law |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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