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The history of Curaçao starts with settlement by the Arawaks, an Amerindian people coming from the South American mainland. They are believed to have inhabited the island for many hundreds of years before the arrival of Europeans.
Curaçao, [a] officially the Country of Curaçao (Dutch: Land Curaçao; [10] Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), [11] [12] is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about 65 km (40 mi) north of Venezuela.
The first European settlers and administrators 3: The conquest of Curaçao by the WIC and the arrival of the Dutch [5] 1634–1665: The conquest of Curaçao 4: New inhabitants in the seventeenth century [6] 1634–1700: Introduction of the plantation economy: 5: The slave trade and slavery [7] 1672–1713: Curaçao as slave market 6: Resistance ...
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The Colony of Curaçao and Dependencies (Dutch: Kolonie Curaçao en onderhorigheden; Papiamento: Kolonia di Kòrsou i dependensianan) was a Dutch colony in the Caribbean Sea from 1634 until 1828 and from 1845 until 1954.
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Today, 17 August is celebrated as the beginning of the liberation struggle. [1] There is a monument to Tula and the rebels on the south coast of Curaçao where Tula was executed, near the modern-day Corendon Mangrove Beach Resort. [9] The Tula Museum is named after the rebel leader. [10]
Images of Dutch soldiers patrolling the streets of Willemstad with machine guns were shown around the world. Much of the international press viewed Dutch involvement as a neo-colonial intervention. The Indonesian War of Independence , in which the former Dutch East Indies broke away from the Netherlands in the 1940s and in which some 150,000 ...