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[[Image:Gran_Colombia.PNG|290px|thumb|right|Departments of the Republic]]

The '''Republic of Gran Colombia''', or '''Greater Colombia''', was a short-lived republic in [[South America]] consisting of present-day [[Colombia]], [[Venezuela]], [[Ecuador]], and [[Panama]]. Its territory corresponded more or less to the jurisdiction of the [[Viceroyalty of New Granada]]. The official name at the time was Republic of Colombia, nowadaysthe itword is"Gran," calledor Republic"Greater" ofthat ''Gran''precede Colombiathe orname ''Greater''were Colombianot used by contemporaries, however, and were added by later historians in order to distinguish it from todaysthe present-day Republic of [[Colombia]].

The word "Colombia" comes from the name of [[Christopher Columbus]] (Cristóbal Colón in Spanish) and was conceived by the revolutionary [[Francisco de Miranda]] as a reference to the New World, especially to all [[the Americas|American]] territories and colonies under [[Spain|Spanish]] and [[Portugal|Portuguese]] rule.

The word "Gran," or "Greater" that precede the name were not used by contemporaries, however, and were added by later historians in order to distinguish it from the present-day Republic of [[Colombia]].

Liberator of South America [[Simón Bolívar]] and other revolutionaries in the First Republic of Venezuela occasionally used this name as a reference to all of Spanish America, until the proclamation of a republic under that name in [[1819]] at the [[Congress of Angostura]]. It was conceived initially at that Congress as a federal republic, made up of three departments with capitals in the cities of [[Bogotá]] (Department of Cundinamarca), [[Caracas]] (Department of Venezuela), and [[Quito]] (Department of Quito). In that year, not all provinces of the former viceroyalty were yet free.