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| For the Spanish version of this page, click [https://wiki.familysearch.org/es/Panama:_Historia here]. | | For the Spanish version of this page, click [https://wiki.familysearch.org/es/Panama:_Historia here]. |
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| ===Online Histories=== | | == History== |
| *[http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab28 Historyworld.net's brief history of Panama]
| | The first permanent European settlement in the mainland of the Americas, Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien, was founded in Panama by Vasco Nunez de Balboa in 1510. |
| *[http://countrystudies.us/panama/ "Panama: A Country Study," a book published in 1987, electronic version hosted by countrystudies.us]
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| *The Isthmus of Panama is the narrowest strip of land in the American continent. It is bordered north-west by Costa Rica, south-east by Colombia, south by the Pacific Ocean, and north by the Caribbean Sea.
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| *Some consider Panama a transcontinental nation, with the Panama Canal bisecting North and South America.
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| *The first permanent European settlement in the mainland of the Americas, Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien, was founded in Panama by Vasco Nunez de Balboa in 1510.
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| *The Pacific Ocean was discovered by Balboa off the coast of Panama on September 25, 1513.
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| ==== Panama in 1915 ==== | | ==== Panama in 1915 ==== |
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| Download pdf files from [http://www.binal.ac.pa/buscar/clnac.htm http://www.binal.ac.pa/buscar/clnac.htm] | | Download pdf files from [http://www.binal.ac.pa/buscar/clnac.htm http://www.binal.ac.pa/buscar/clnac.htm] |
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| ====The "Blue Book of Panama"==== | | ====The "Blue Book of Panama"==== |
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| [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1042677 The Blue Book of Panama] | | [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1042677 The Blue Book of Panama] |
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| | ===Online Histories=== |
| | *[http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab28 Historyworld.net's brief history of Panama] |
| | *[http://countrystudies.us/panama/ "Panama: A Country Study," a book published in 1987, electronic version hosted by countrystudies.us] |
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| {{Place|Panama}} | | {{Place|Panama}} |
| {{H-langs|en=Panama History|es=Historia de Panamá}} | | {{H-langs|en=Panama History|es=Historia de Panamá}} |
| [[Category:Panama|History]] [[Category:History]] | | [[Category:Panama|History]] [[Category:History]] |