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2. List of Dutch explorations - Wikipedia

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   Part of Thijssen's map shows the islands St Francis and St Peter, now known collectively with their respective groups as the Nuyts Archipelago. Thijssen's observations were included as soon as 1628 by the VOC cartographer Hessel Gerritsz in a chart of the Indies and New Holland. This voyage defined most of the southern coast of Australia and ...

3. Dutch colonial empire - Wikipedia

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   The Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies—mainly the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company—and subsequently by the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), and by the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands after 1815.

4. Evolution of the Dutch colonial empire - Wikipedia

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   Map of the West Indies. The GWC name came from the Dutch West India Company (Geoctrooieerde Westindische Compagnie). When the VOC took control in the eastern shores, Amsterdam decided to establish the GWC. The Dutch arrival in Africa and the Americas had a great effect on the political culture of both countries.

5. Category:Former Dutch colonies - Wikipedia

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   Afrikaans; العربية; Беларуская; Български; Català; Čeština; Dansk; Eesti; Español; Esperanto; Euskara; فارسی; Français; Frysk ...

6. Dutch colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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   On 4 May 1903, a group of over 200 Dutch emigrants sailed on the steamship "Oropesa" shipping company "Pacific Steam Navigation Company, from La Rochelle (La Pallice) in France. The majority of migrants were born in the Netherlands: 35% were from North Holland and South Holland, 13% of North Brabant, 9% of Zeeland and equal number of Gelderland.

7. Timeline of the European colonization of North America

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   1526: Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón briefly establishes the failed settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape in South Carolina, the first site of enslavement of Africans in North America and of the first slave rebellion. 1527: Fishermen are using the harbor at St. John's, Newfoundland and other places on the coast.

8. Dutch diaspora - Wikipedia

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   The Dutch diaspora consists of the Dutch and their descendants living outside the Netherlands. [1]Emigration from the Netherlands has been occurring for since at least the 17th century, and may be traced back to the international presence of the Dutch Empire and its monopoly on mercantile shipping in many parts of the world.

9. History of immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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   The following were the countries of origin for new arrivals to the United States before 1790. [30] The regions marked with an asterisk were part of Great Britain. The ancestry of the 3.9 million population in 1790 has been estimated by various sources by sampling last names from the 1790 census and assigning them a country of origin.