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The islands were named "Santa Ăšrsula y las Once Mil VĂ­rgenes" by Christopher Columbus in 1493 after the legend of Saint Ursula and the 11,000 virgins.[3] The name was later shortened to "the Virgin Islands."[3]

 

Previously known as the Danish West Indies of the Kingdom of Denmark–Norway (from 1754 to 1814) and the independent Kingdom of Denmark (from 1814 to 1917), they and their populations were sold to the United States by Denmark for $25,000,000 in the 1917 Treaty of the Danish West Indies.[3] They are classified by the United Nations as a Non-Self-Governing Territory, and are currently an organized, unincorporated United States territory. The U.S. Virgin Islands are organized under the 1954 Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands and have since held five constitutional conventions.

 

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