The island Guadeloupe , discovered by
Christopher Columbus in 1493, is made a French Overseas Department on march
19th 1946, then a Region in 1974.
The other islands belonging to the archipelago
of Guadeloupe:
Les Saintes - la Désirade - Petite Terre - Marie Galante, Saint Martin (split into a French and a Netherland section)
and Saint Barthélemy voted at the referendum of December 7, 2003
to become French oversea communities of their own.
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