Saint Barthelemy, officially the Collectivite territoriale de Saint-Barthelemy, is an overseas collectivity of France in the Caribbean.
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16 Facts About Saint Barthelemy
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Saint Barthelemy was for many years a French commune forming part of Guadeloupe, which is an overseas region and department of France.
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Saint Barthelemy facilitated the transfer of ownership from the Compagnie des Iles de l'Amerique to the Order.
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Saint Barthelemy continued to rule the island until his death in 1660.
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The last legally owned slaves in the Swedish colony of St Saint Barthelemy were granted their freedom by the state on 9 October 1847.
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Saint Barthelemy was for many years a French commune forming part of Guadeloupe, which is an overseas region and department of France.
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Saint Barthelemy ceased being an outermost region and left the EU, to become an OCT, on 1 January 2012.
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Residents, known as Saint Barthelemy-Barthelemois, are French citizens and work at establishments on the island.
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The majority of the population of Saint Barthelemy is Christian, Saint Barthelemy is considered the most religiously homogeneous territory in the French West Indies, with particular importance given to the Catholic Church.
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Saint Barthelemy is part of the Diocese of the North Eastern Caribbean and Aruba, which is under the Church of England that serves a small minority on the island that is centered in the Anglican Church of Saint Bartholomew built between 1853 and 1855.
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Until 2007 the whole island of St Barthelemy was a French commune, forming part of Guadeloupe which is an overseas region and overseas departement of France.
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St Saint Barthelemy became an overseas territory of the European Union on 1 January 2012, but the island's inhabitants remain French citizens with EU status holding EU passports.
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St Saint Barthelemy has about 25 hotels, most with 15 rooms or fewer; the largest has 58 rooms.
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Eglise anglicane de Gustavia, the Saint Barthelemy-Bartholomew Anglican Church, is an important religious building in the town built in 1855 with stones brought from St Eustatius.
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Musee Territorial de St -Saint Barthelemy is a historical museum known as the "St Barts Municipal Museum" called the "Wall House" in Gustavia, which is located on the far end of La Pointe.
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The St Saint Barthelemy Music Festival is a major international performing arts event held every year.
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