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  2. The Guianas - Wikipedia

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    The Dutch lost Berbice, Essequibo, and Demerara; these colonies were consolidated under a central British administration and would be known after 1831 as British Guiana. The Dutch retained Suriname. After 1814, the Guianas came to be recognised individually as British Guiana, French Guiana, and Dutch Guiana.

  3. British Guiana - Wikipedia

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    British Guiana was a British ... also included a survey of the colony's eastern boundary with the Dutch colony of Surinam, now the independent nation of Suriname.

  4. Borders of Suriname - Wikipedia

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    The boundaries of British Guiana according to the Schomburgk survey. According to an agreement between Suriname governor Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck and Berbice governor Abraham van Pere—both were Dutch colonies at the time—the border between the two colonies was located at Devil Creek, between the Berbice River and the Courantyne River.

  5. Surinam (Dutch colony) - Wikipedia

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    Surinam (Dutch: Suriname), also unofficially known as Dutch Guiana, was a Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas, bordered by the equally Dutch colony of Berbice to the west, and the French colony of Cayenne to the east. It later bordered British Guiana from 1831 to 1966.

  6. Suriname - Wikipedia

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    Suriname is situated between French Guiana to the east and Guyana to the west. ... Another is that Suriname was first colonized by the British, ...

  7. History of Suriname - Wikipedia

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    The early history of Suriname dates from 3000 BCE when Native Americans first inhabited the area. The Dutch acquired Suriname from the English, and European settlement in any numbers dates from the 17th century, when it was a plantation colony utilizing slavery for sugar cultivation.

  8. Guyana - Wikipedia

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    The name "Guyana" derives from Guiana, an earlier name for a larger region that included the areas now called Guyana (British Guyana), Suriname (Dutch Guiana), French Guiana, the Guayana Region in Venezuela (Spanish Guyana), and Amapá in Brazil (Portuguese Guiana).

  9. Berbice - Wikipedia

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    In 1966, British Guiana gained independence as Guyana and in 1970 it became a republic as the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. After being a hereditary fief in the possession of the Van Peere family, the colony was governed by the Society of Berbice in the second half of the colonial period, akin to the neighbouring colony of Suriname, which ...