the English rendering of any Spanish geographical or administrative name Nueva Granada, always named after the deep southern Spanish port city Granada, as in:
the post-colonial Republic of New Granada (1831 to 1856), which included modern Colombia and, for most of the period, its state/department/province, Panama.
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To further stabilize colonial government, NewGranada was made a presidency (an administrative and political division headed by a governor) in 1564, and the audiencia was relegated to its proper judicial functions.
Later the captaincy general of Venezuela and the presidency of Quito were detached, creating a political division that was to survive the revolution against Spain and the efforts of Simón Bolívar to establish a republic of Greater Colombia.
It is understood that Granada is furious that the Carlton...
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