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History of Venezuela in maps
Venezuela as it appears in 6 interactive history atlases, from 1750 to 2015: Venezuela. 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 Venezuela before it was Venezuela? 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.
Venezuela · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Agrarian economy |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Venezuela · Age of Revolutions
The revolution’s furnace: first republic (1811) destroyed by earthquake and war; the “war to the death” years; Boves’s royalist llaneros, then Páez’s patriot ones — civil war inside independence. Carabobo (1821) freed it; caudillos inherited it. Bolívar’s birthplace gave the age its greatest liberator and its clearest warning about what wars of liberation leave behind.
| Colonial possessions — the opening position | |
| Republics & revolutionary states |
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Venezuela · Haiti and Kenya independence
Venezuela felt Haiti’s influence early: in 1795 José Leonardo Chirino led a revolt of free Black and enslaved workers at Coro, inspired by the French and Haitian revolutions. Bolívar, armed by Pétion at Les Cayes in 1816, decreed emancipation at Carúpano that June, the bargain the map’s arrow records. Independence was secured by 1821, but slavery itself was abolished only in 1854.
| Under colonial rule — the opening position | |
| Other states and societies |
HAITI AND KENYA INDEPENDENCE: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Venezuela · WWI
Venezuela · Cold War
| US-aligned states — the opening position |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Venezuela · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Refused: women excluded; ERA never ratified — 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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