Martinique (Concert of Europe)

Martinique is an island and overseas province of. It is located in the archipelago of the Windward Islands, themselves part of the Lesser Antilles in the. A volcanic island, it was known for the tragic eruption of 1902 which destroyed its capital, Saint-Pierre, nicknamed "the of the Caribbean". The city has since been rebuilt and recovered much of its former splendor.

French is the only language spoken on Martinique, as creole and indigenous languages slowly fell out of use as more and more settlers from metropolitan France estabilished themselves on the island. Today, its demographic makeup consists mainly of descendants of French settlers and people of mixed descent. Its economy, traditionally reliant on sugar cultivation, today revoles mostly around on tourism and refinement of oil.