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Read the rules here, or ask questions about it. Come with suggestions or complains.
Moderator: Captain Darius Black | 13 | 127 | on Dec 29, 2007, 4:27pm
by Captain Ah'mal Ali Hakim
in Activity Check |
| Introduce yourself (3 sub-boards)
Introduce yourself and your character here, tell us about u, say hey to us and more...
| 80 | 388 | on Feb 8, 2008, 6:51pm
by Jacklyn Crow
in Pirate |
| Family Gathering
If you search for someone your character can be with, be in a family with, or related with, then post her and ask if someone want.
Moderator: Captain Darius Black | 3 | 182 | on Aug 22, 2007, 4:38pm
by Wilma Turner
in Ask to be related |
| Community |
| General Talk (9 sub-boards)
Here you are free to talk about anything! talk about your life, the site, your characters, anything!
Moderator: Captain Darius Black | 58 | 421 | on Aug 23, 2007, 3:56pm
by Wilma Turner
in What are you listening... |
| Staff Room
A Place to chat and make plans for all those who are admins, moderators etc..
Moderator: Captain Darius Black | 1 | 31 | |
| Pirate Talk (4 sub-boards)
Arg! talk about the pirate life here!
| 8 | 87 | on Jan 31, 2008, 12:00pm
by Kathleen Tennant
in James Norrington Petition |
| Arcive
All old posts will be taken to the arcive where it will be kept for others to read if they want.
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| Caribbean Islands |
| Jamaica |
| Port Royal - 1 Viewing
Port Royal was built by the spanish and later England acquired it in 1655. By 1659, two hundred houses, shops, and warehouses surrounded the fort. As the conquest continued over the island Port royal was held as capital for the british navy and poplulation.
Moderators: John Smith, Eideard Murdoch | 24 | 913 | on Jun 28, 2007, 6:50pm
by John Smith
in Reunion(John SMith) |
| Santiago de la Vega(Spanish Town)
The Spanish settlement of Villa de la Vega was founded by governor Francisco de Garay in 1534 as the capital of the colony. Later, it was also called Santiago de la Vega or St. Jago de la Vega. Indigenous Taino had been living in the area for approximately a millennium before this, but this was the first European habitation on the south of the island. When the English conquered Jamaica in 1655, they renamed the capital Spanish Town. Since the town was badly damaged during the conquest, Port Royal took on many administrative roles and functioned as an unofficial capital during the beginning of the English reign.
Moderator: Charnel- GovernorSantiago | 1 | 1 | on Feb 21, 2007, 12:21pm
by Charnel- GovernorSantiago
in Govenours house |
| Ocho Rios
Translated in Spanish the name Ocho Rios, means "eight rivers". However there are not eight rivers in town. The confusion began in 1657, the English fought off a Spanish expeditionary force on a raid from nearby Cuba. The battle took place near Dunn's River Falls. The Spanish called the site las chorreros, meaning river rapids. The English misunderstood the Spanish reference. Therefore, the English interpretation became Ocho Rios, which sounded close enough. Historically, Ocho Rios had never acquired any prominent role to either the English or the Spanish. It was, however, utilised by pirates.
Moderator: Evan Kearney | 3 | 32 | on Mar 15, 2007, 3:47pm
by Lily Mae
in Lily's visit to Ochos ... |
| Montego Bay
The name "Montego Bay" is believed to have originated as a corruption of the Spanish word manteca ("lard"), allegedly because during the Spanish period it was the port where lard, leather, and beef were exported. Jamaica was a colony of Spain from 1511 until 1655 when Oliver Cromwell's Caribbean expedition, the Western Design, drove the Spanish from the island.
Moderator: James Breton | 5 | 15 | on Mar 26, 2007, 2:31pm
by Bob Marley
in Walking The Streets of... |
| Cuba |
| Havana
Havana was founded in 1515 by the spanish, 4 years later was moved to where it now is situated. The city became an important port for the military and the economy, later on often was plundered by pirates even burnt down, but rebuilt. 1607 Havana became the capital city of Cuba.
Moderator: Cayetano Marichal | 8 | 33 | on Sept 17, 2007, 5:10pm
by Estefania
in No Man is an Island |
| Santiago de Cuba
Santiago de Cuba was founded by Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar on June 28, 1514. In 1516 the settlement was destroyed by fire, and was immediately rebuilt. This was the starting point of the expeditions led by Juan de Grijalba and Hernán Cortés to the coasts of Mexico in 1518, and in 1538 by Hernando de Soto's expedition to Florida. The first cathedral was built in the city in 1528. From 1522 until 1589 Santiago was the capital of the Spanish colony of Cuba.The city was plundered by French forces in 1553, and by British forces in 1662 but the spanish still controlls it.
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| Baracoa
Baracoa was the first place in Cuba where the spanish moved to, they built there first capital there, and the first governor of Cuba lived there. Later on, its location, isolated from the rest of the island, made it possible for some spanish people to start illegal trade with the French and English.
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| Trinidad
Trinidad was founded in 1514 by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar under the name Villa De la Santísima Trinidad. Its one of the best preserved cities in the Caribbean from the time when the sugar trade was the main industry in the region.
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| Hispaniola |
| Tortuga
Tortuga was discovered by Europeans in 1494, during the second voyage of Christopher Columbus into the New World. Columbus' sailors called it Tortuga ("Turtle") because its humped shape resembled a turtle. Tortuga was originally settled by a few Spanish colonists but later on as the french and english invided and drived the spanish away, they fled but later returned and as time went the island was often used as hideout for the pirates and no one was able to controll it anymore.
| 5 | 529 | on Aug 7, 2007, 9:10am
by Dominic *Dodger*
in Coogan's Tavern |
| Gonâve Island
Gonâve Island (French: Île de la Gonâve) is an island of Haiti located to the west-northwest of Port-au-Prince in the Gulf of Gonâve. Made up of mostly limestone, the reef-fringed island of Gonâve is 60 km (37 miles) long and 15 km (9 miles) wide and covers an area of 743 km² (287 sq. miles). The island is mostly barren and hilly with the highest point reaching 778 meters (2552 feet). The island gets anywhere from 800mm to 1600mm of rain a year, higher areas representing the latter figure. The island is often used as a base for pirates.
| 3 | 132 | on May 28, 2007, 3:03pm
by Captain Darius Black
in Port of Darius Fort |
| Port-au-Prince
Before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, the region that would eventually become Port-au-Prince was not the site of any permanent human settlement. At the end of the 15th century, the region was under the control of an Amerindian ruler by the name of Bohechio, and he, like his predecessors, feared settling too close to the coast -- such settlements would have proven to be tempting targets for the Caribes, who lived in neighbouring islands. Instead, the region served as a hunting ground. When the spanish arrived they meet then inhabits in a friendly way but later on decided to kill them all. When all of them where distroyed the place became under spanish rule and the city Port-au-Prince where built. Later France and England inveded and so the Spanish decided to flee and lot the french and dutch pirates take over.
Moderator: Tristan Rousseau | 4 | 94 | on Jun 5, 2007, 11:05am
by Cayetano Marichal
in Govenors House |
| Port-de-Paix (1 sub-board)
The area around the town was given the name "Valparaíso" by Christopher Columbus after landing here on December 6, 1492 and still contains many attractive beaches and locations. A ferry operates between the town and Tortuga Island (La Tortue) situated just across the water. The town was founded in 1665 by French filibusters, driven from Tortuga Island by the British occupiers.
| 6 | 9 | on Jun 4, 2007, 3:16pm
by Anne Cash
in The Gate |
| Santo Domingo
Before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Taíno Indians populated the island of Hispaniola. At that time, a several chieftains or caciques ruled the island through complex, centralized governments, a fact completely lost on the Europeans, who dismissed the natives as "savages." Bartholomew Columbus, brother of Christopher Columbus, founded Santo Domingo, which is today the oldest European city in the New World. In reality the city dates back to 1496, the period when the first Europeans settled there, although officially it was founded on August 5, 1498. Governor general Nicolás de Ovando arrived in 1502 with a fleet of 20 ships and 2,500 spanish men. Santo Domingo was destroyed by a hurricane shortly after his arrival and he had it rebuilt with a wall surrounding the city.
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| Santiago de los Caballeros
Santiago de los Caballeros was built by the spanish, the original colony was in Jacagua, but when this was destroyed by an earthquake it was moved to its present location in 1506. It was devastated by another earthquake in 1562 but rebuilt some time after.
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| Concepción de la Vega
Concepción de La Vega - often simply known as La Vega. It was built by the spanish and was Founded in the 1490s, it was moved after a severe earthquake in the 1560s and now lies on the bank of the Camú River.
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| Bahamas |
| Grand Bahama
The island's earliest known inhabitants were the Stone Age hunter-gatherer Siboney Indians, of whom little evidence remains apart from artifacts such as ornamental shells or jewellery. These primitive people eventually disappeared to be replaced by the Taino Arawaks from South America, who travelling in dugout canoes eventually colonized most of the Caribbean. The Arawak communities on Grand Bahama, who became known as Lucayans were believed to have advanced and well-organized social and political structures, and there were estimated to be approximately 4,000 on Grand Bahama at the time of the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors in 1492. Since the spanish invided the island became under their controll but often visited by pirates.
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| Andros
Andros Island is the largest island of the Bahamas at roughly 2300 square miles (6,000 km²) in area and 104 miles (167 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide at its widest point. It is actually comprised of three major islands: North Andros, Mangrove Cay, and South Andros. The island has the world's third largest barrier reef, which is over 140 miles long. It is affectionately known by Bahamians as the "Big Yard". There is some evidence that suggests that the first inhabitants of Andros Island were the indigenous Lucayan people. The Lucayans throughout the Bahamas were wiped out mainly by exposure to disease following the arrival of the Spanish in the 1550's.
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| New Providence (Charles Towne/Nassau)
New Providence is an island, one of the most populous in the Bahamas. While the first European visitors to the Bahama Islands were Bermudian salt rakers gathering sea salt in Grand Turk and Inagua after 1670, the first lasting occupation was on Eleuthera and then New Providence shortly thereafter. The attraction of New Providence was one of the best sheltered natural small vessel harbors in the West Indies. Located on New Providence island, Nassau has an attractive harbour, a colourful blend of old world and colonial architecture and a busy port. Nassau was founded by the British in the mid-17th century as Charles Towne but later on the place was often visited by the pirates.
Moderator: Sir Richard Israel | 1 | 25 | on Mar 24, 2007, 8:07pm
by Grace Smith
in The Banquet (Semi-open) |
| Cat Island
Cat Island is one of the central Bahamas, and one of its districts, and boasts the nation's highest point. Its Mount Alvernia rises to 206 ft (63 m). The island may have been named after Arthur Catt, a pirate, or the name may refer to its one-time large population of feral cats.
Historically, the island gained wealth from cotton plantations, but slash and burn farming is now the main way of life for Cat Islanders.
| 2 | 150 | on Mar 8, 2007, 6:02am
by Motsoti Kenjati
in Cat Island Village |
| Eleuthera
Eleuthera is an island in the Bahamas, lying 50 miles (80 km) east of Nassau. It is very long and thin—110 miles (180 km) long and in places little more than a mile wide. The original population of Taino, or Arawaks, was mostly deported by the Spanish to work in the mines of Hispaniola, where they died out by 1550. The island is believed to have been unoccupied until the first European settlers—puritan pilgrims- arrived in 1648 from Bermuda. These settlers, known as the 'Eleutherian Adventurers,' gave the island its current name -- "eleutheria" means 'freedom' in Greek, while Eleuthera means 'free.'
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| Long Island
Long Island is a sixty-mile (nearly 100km) long island in the Bahamas that is split by the Tropic of Cancer. The island is only about four miles (6km) wide, but a road spans most of the length. Long Island is about 150 miles or 240 kilometres southeast of Nassau. Some of the main settlements are Clarence Town, Deadman's Cay, and Scrub Hill. The island originally was called by the Arawak name "Yuma". The island was rechristened "Fernandina" by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage in 1492. Archaeological evidence shows that the Lucayan Taíno tribe settled on Long Island, as they did throughout the Bahamain chain of islands.
Moderator: Motsoti Kenjati | 12 | 359 | on Jun 13, 2007, 7:20am
by Kiskeya
in Village |
| Acklins and Crooked Islands
It consisted of a group of islands lying in a shallow lagoon called the Bight of Acklins, of which the largest are Crooked Island in the north and Acklins in the south-east, and the smaller are Long Cay (once known as Fortune Island) in the north-west, and Castle Island in the south. This place is mainly inhabit by Tainos and animals.
Moderator: Metheas Kentar | 4 | 4 | on Mar 18, 2007, 9:05am
by Ariadne
in Map of Acklins and Cro... |
| Great Inagua
Great Inagua is the third largest island in the Bahamas at 596 sq mi (1544 km²) and lies about 55 miles (90 km) from the eastern tip of Cuba. Several documented treasure laden ships were destroyed on Inaguan reefs and so this place can have some treasures if you search, the island also have many exoitc birds and some indians inhabits.
Moderators: Meneto Kentar, Athena Kentar | 13 | 397 | on Jul 10, 2007, 9:08pm
by Pandora
in A sad goodbye |
| Turks and Caicos Islands
The two island groups are in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the Bahamas, north of Hispaniola. The islands of the Turks and Caicos were first populated by Carib Amerindians but, shortly after the islands' discovery – depending on the source, on 12 October 1492 by Christopher Columbus, who would have claimed them for Spain, or by Juan Ponce de León in 1512 – Spanish explorers began raiding the archipelago for slaves. Though many nations controlled the islands, official settlement didn't occur right away. As yeah passed the place became a good hideout for the pirates.
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| Puerto Rico |
| San Juan
San Juan, the capital and largest city in Puerto Rico is located in the Northern Coastal Plains region in the karst zone. San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521 and is the oldest city in Puerto Rico. The British, French and Dutch forces tried to take the port many times but the defences of the city where always to strong and so it still kept living under spanish rule.
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| Vieques
Vieques is an island-municipality of Puerto Rico. It is located to the east of the Puerto Rican mainland. Vieques is divided into seven wards and Isabel Segunda, the downtown area and the administrative center of the island. Studies show that Vieques was first inhabited by Native Americans who came from South America about 1500 years before Christopher Columbus set foot in Puerto Rico in 1493. After a brief battle between local Indians and Spaniards, the Spaniards took control of the island, turning the locals into their slaves.
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| Council`s |
| Brethren Court
The Pirate Lords are a group of nine Pirates who run a system of "governance" over their respective area. When a pirate lord passes on his or her Piece of Eight to another ship captain, that captain is then a Pirate Lord. However, each Pirate Lord carries a talisman referred to as "one of the nine Pieces of Eight" because it sounds catchier. Here all the pirate lords can talk and vote of what shall happend, normal pirates are also welcome but cant vote just be heard.
Moderators: Captain Darius Black, Mark, Captain Ah'mal Ali Hakim | 0 | 0 | |
| British Council
The British council is only used by the Englishmen who controlls the towns in the caribbean sea and so they can talk about their next move together as one unit.
Moderators: John Smith, Charnel- GovernorSantiago, Evan Kearney, Sir Richard Israel, James Breton | 1 | 9 | |
| French Council
The French council is only used by the frenchmen who controlls the towns in the caribbean sea and so they can talk about their next move together as one unit.
Moderator: Tristan Rousseau | 1 | 1 | |
| Spanish Council
The Spanish council is only used by the spaniols who controlls the towns in the caribbean sea and so they can talk about their next move together as one unit.
Moderator: Cayetano Marichal | 0 | 0 | |
| Battle Areas |
| Land Battles
All battles that is being at lands will be moved to this area to keep order in caribbean sea.
Moderator: Captain Darius Black | 1 | 64 | on Mar 2, 2007, 4:28pm
by Motsoti Kenjati
in The Battlefield |
| The Sea
All ships that leaves port will have to post or make a thread here, even battle at seas will be taken here.
Moderator: Captain Darius Black | 5 | 996 | on Oct 8, 2007, 1:13pm
by Wilma Turner
in The Balck Pearl |
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