6 ATLASES
History of Colombia in maps
Colombia as it appears in 6 interactive history atlases, from 1750 to 2015: Colombia, New Granada, New Granada / Colombia. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Colombia before it was Colombia? The sections below follow this land through every era covered by the Maps of History atlases: who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed. Each line links to the dated map. Modern borders serve as an approximation, as each atlas says on the map itself.
Colombia · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Agrarian economy |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
New Granada (mod. Colombia) · Age of Revolutions
New Granada was Bolívar’s pivot. Boyacá gave the revolution a state in 1819, Bogotá gave it a capital, and Gran Colombia joined it with Venezuela and Quito in a short-lived super-state. By 1830 that state had fractured. Bolívar died on his way to exile, writing that he had “ploughed the sea.” Winning liberation had left the work of building institutions unresolved.
| Colonial possessions — the opening position | |
| Republics & revolutionary states |
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
New Granada / Colombia · Haiti and Kenya independence
New Granada formed the core of Bolívar’s Gran Colombia and won independence from Spain by 1819–22. Its creole leaders had accepted Haitian help during the war, yet they excluded Haiti from the Congress of Panama in 1826. A republic created by formerly enslaved people made them wary. Colombia abolished slavery in 1851. Panama, then part of Colombia, broke away in 1903.
| Under colonial rule — the opening position | |
| Other states and societies |
HAITI AND KENYA INDEPENDENCE: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Colombia · WWI
Colombia · Cold War
| US-aligned states — the opening position |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Colombia · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Refused: women excluded; ERA never ratified — the opening position | |
| Right won in law | |
| No reform yet / outside this story | |
| Right won in law |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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