6 ATLASES
History of Panama in maps
Panama as it appears in 6 interactive history atlases, from 1750 to 2015: Panama. 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 Panama before it was Panama? 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.
Panama · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Agrarian economy |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Panama · Age of Revolutions
| Colonial possessions — the opening position | |
| Republics & revolutionary states |
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Panama · Haiti and Kenya independence
Bolívar’s Congress of the new American republics met in Panama in 1826, when Panama was part of Gran Colombia. Haiti, the second independent state in the Americas, had supplied Bolívar with guns and ships. Nevertheless, the United States was invited and Haiti was not. The exclusion showed how widely the new republics’ creole elites feared Haiti’s example.
| Under colonial rule — the opening position | |
| Other states and societies |
HAITI AND KENYA INDEPENDENCE: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Panama · WWI
| The Entente & Allies — the opening position | |
| The Entente & Allies |
Panama · Cold War
| US-aligned states — the opening position |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Panama · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Partial or unequal; treaty signed only; transition — 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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