Small
as it is, Sint Maarten/Saint Martin offers a unique blend
of population: more than seventy different nationalities,
coming from all continents, are recorded here!
After having
been settled by Arawak Indians for several centuries, the
Island had been abandoned for some time when the French
and Dutch settlers came in.
Towards the end
of the 17th Century,a French Governor, in order to increase
the population, decided to open up the French side of the
Island
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to
colonization by offering lands to all families wanting
to settle.
This solution
allowed an increase and more of all stabilization of the
population with the arrival of many English families coming
from surrounding islands, each with a few slaves of African
origin.
This new population
quickly outnumbered the original settlers, and then imposed
their mother language, explaining that now
days Sint Maarten/Saint Martin is a French and English
speaking land.
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