The English term Indie is derived from the Classical Latin India, a reference to the territories in South Asia adjacent and east to the Indus River. India itself derived successively from Hellenistic Greek India ( Ἰνδία), … See more

Many cultures were indigenous to these islands, with evidence dating some of them back to the mid-6th millennium BCE.
In the late 16th century, French, English and Dutch merchants and privateers began operations … See more

The West Indies are a geologically complex island system consisting of 7,000 islands and islets stretching over 3,000 km (2000 miles) from the Florida peninsula of North America south-southeast to the northern coast of … See more