关于特克斯和凯科斯群岛的有趣事实

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关于特克斯和凯科斯群岛的2个有趣事实。

• 这些岛屿曾是英国牙买加殖民地的一部分,直到1962年牙买加独立时才被赋予独立皇家殖民地的地位。
• The popular story is the name Turks being derived after the indigenous Turk’s Head "fez" cactus and the name Caicos, a Lucayan term "caya hico," meaning string of islands. A more romantic, origin of the name is a reflection of the Islands’ pirate history, when 17th and 18th century pirates used the islands as hideouts and preyed upon the passing Spanish treasure ships bound for Europe. The term "Turk" for a pirate stemmed two centuries earlier when the Ottoman Empire dominated the Mediterranean and Turkish corsairs harried European Atlantic shipping, thus translated "Turks" Islands becomes "Pirate" Islands!