Called Boriquén (bor ee ken') by the Indians who inhabited it, Columbus claimed the island for Spain on his second voyage to the New World and named it after John the Baptist.
Called Boriquén (bor ee ken') by the Indians who inhabited it, Columbus claimed the island for Spain on his second voyage to the New World and named it after John the Baptist. Its capital was founded in 1508, and through common usage, its citizens began using the name given to the city to refer to the island, and vice versa. FTP, identify the island located at the eastern end of the Greater Antilles, whose capital was originally named for the rich harbor it afforded its Spanish colonizers.
Called Boriquén (bor ee ken') by the Indians who inhabited it, Columbus claimed the island for Spain on his second voyage to the New World and named it after John the Baptist.
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