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The Dutch further explored and charted the area in multiple voyages between 1610 and 1616; the first Dutch settlements were built in 1613 and the name New Netherland appeared on maps from 1614 on. With Swedish funding, the third governor of New Netherland later founded the colony of New Sweden in the region around Delaware Bay in 1638.
Before Pennsylvania was Pennsylvania, the Delaware Valley was New Sweden (Jim Thorpe PA Today. June 2006) Chronology of Colonial Swedes on the Delaware, 1638-1713 (Dr. Peter S. Craig. Swedish Colonial News. Volume 2, Number 5, Fall 2001) Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine; Johan Printz, Governor of New Sweden (Pennsylvania People ...
A map of New Netherland (in magenta) and New Sweden (in blue) in the 17th century; New Sweden was later absorbed by New Netherland and then the British in the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Long-term European exploration of the Americas commenced after the 1492 expedition of Christopher Columbus , and the 1497 expedition of John Cabot is credited with ...
A map based on Adriaen Block's 1614 expedition to New Netherland, featuring the first use of the name. It was created by Dutch cartographers in the Golden Age of Dutch exploration (c. 1590s –1720s) and Netherlandish cartography (c. 1570s –1670s).
The Dutch called back William Frederick, the son of the last stadtholder, to head the new government. He was proclaimed "sovereign prince". In 1815, he raised the Netherlands to the status of a kingdom and proclaimed himself King William I. The kingdom was enlarged with the Southern Netherlands, now Belgium and Luxembourg, soon after.
The main Danube Principalities: Bulgaria, Greece, Anatolia, and Italy, map now at the Romanian National Museum of Maps and Old Books.. Justus Danckerts I (11 November 1635 in Amsterdam – 16 July 1701 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch engraver and print publisher who along with other members of the Danckerts family created one of the leading Dutch geographical map and atlas publishing houses.
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