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Tortola

Tortola is the largest and most populous of the British Virgin Islands, with the capital, Road Town, on its south coast. Dutch settlers held it before English forces seized it in 1672, and it became the centre of a small colony of sugar and cotton plantations worked by enslaved Africans.

Tortola
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Tortola. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tortola
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