Barlovento

Japanese: Barlovento
Barlovento

… In Europe, since the Middle Ages, it was thought that there was a land called Antillia on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, but after Columbus discovered the New World, the Spanish assigned Haiti to Antillia (1493), and on a map of 1502, the islands were called Antilles in Spanish. The islands northwest of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles are called the Barlovento Islands, or Windward Islands in English, because they are blessed with the trade winds, and the islands off the coast of Venezuela are called the Sotavento Islands (meaning "leeward"), or Leeward Islands in English. The Spanish mainly conquered and colonized the Greater Antilles, but in the Lesser Antilles, they only conscripted the natives as slaves and did little colonization, and later Britain, France, the Netherlands, and others advanced there. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Barlovento" is listed below.

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Japanese:

… ヨーロッパでは,中世から大西洋の向こうにはアンティリアAntiliaと呼ばれる土地があると想像されていたが,コロンブスの新世界発見後,スペイン人がハイチをアンティリアにあて(1493),1502年の地図では諸島をスペイン語でアンティリャスAntillasと呼んだ。また小アンティル諸島のうちグレナダから北西にある島々は貿易風の恵みをうけるのでバルロベントBarlovento諸島,英語でウィンドワード諸島と呼び,ベネズエラ沖の島々をソタベントSotavento諸島(〈風下〉の意),英語でリーワード諸島と呼んでいる。スペイン人はおもに大アンティル諸島を征服・植民したが,小アンティル諸島では原住民を奴隷として徴発するばかりで,ほとんど植民を行わず,その後イギリス,フランス,オランダなどが進出した。…

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