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Descriptor English: | Trinidad and Tobago | ||||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Trinidad y Tobago
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Trinidad e Tobago | ||||||
Descriptor French: | Trinité-et-Tobago | ||||||
Entry term(s): |
République de Trinidad-et-Tobago République de Trinité-et-Tobago Tobago Trinidad Trinitad-et-Tobago Trinité Trinité et Tobago |
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Tree number(s): |
Z01.107.084.900.900 Z01.639.880.900 |
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RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014300 | ||||||
Scope note: | An independent state in the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies, north of Venezuela, comprising the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Its capital is Port of Spain. Both islands were discovered by Columbus in 1498. The Spanish, English, Dutch, and French figure in their history over four centuries. Trinidad and Tobago united in 1898 and were made part of the British colony of Trinidad and Tobago in 1899. The colony became an independent state in 1962. Trinidad was so named by Columbus either because he arrived on Trinity Sunday or because three mountain peaks suggested the Holy Trinity. Tobago was given the name by Columbus from the Haitian tambaku, pipe, from the natives' habit of smoking tobacco leaves. (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1228, 1216 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p555, 547) |
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Allowable Qualifiers: |
EH ethnologie EP épidémiologie |
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DeCS ID: | 14702 | ||||||
Unique ID: | D014300 | ||||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||||
Date Established: | 1979/01/01 | ||||||
Date of Entry: | 1999/01/01 | ||||||
Revision Date: | 2012/07/03 |
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Trinité-et-Tobago
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Tobago
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Concept UI |
M0021998 |
Preferred term | Trinité-et-Tobago |
Entry term(s) |
République de Trinidad-et-Tobago République de Trinité-et-Tobago Trinitad-et-Tobago Trinité et Tobago |
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M0021997 |
Preferred term | Tobago |
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M0021999 |
Preferred term | Trinité |
Entry term(s) |
Trinidad |
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