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www.colonybrands.com. Colony Brands, Inc. (formerly, The Swiss Colony, Inc.) is a mail-order and electronic retail company known for its cheese, sausage, chocolate, fruitcakes, and other food products. The company also features extensive offerings in furniture, home decor, apparel, entertainment products, and electronics.
Colonial era. Dutch settlement in the East Indies. Batavia (now Jakarta), Java, c. 1665 CE. Beginning in the 16th century, successive waves of Europeans—the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and English—sought to dominate the spice trade at its sources in India and the 'Spice Islands' (Maluku) of Indonesia.
Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles). With over 280 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most-populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country.
Location of Indonesia. Indonesia is a unitary sovereign state and transcontinental country located mainly in Southeast Asia with some territories in Oceania. Indonesia's economy is the world's 16th largest by nominal GDP and the 8th largest by GDP at PPP, the largest in Southeast Asia, and is considered an emerging market and newly industrialised country.
Indonesia was the first place, outside of Arabia and Ethiopia, where coffee was widely cultivated. [7] The coffee was shipped to Europe from the port of Batavia (now Jakarta). There has been a port at the mouth of Ciliwung River since 397 AD, when King Purnawarman established the city he called Sunda Kelapa. Today, in the Kota area of Jakarta ...
View of the Island and the City of Batavia Belonging to the Dutch, for the India Company. In 1603, the first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia was established in Banten, northwest Java, [7] and in 1611, another was established at Jayakarta (later renamed 'Batavia' and then 'Jakarta').
t. e. The Dutch East Indies, [3] also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch: Nederlands (ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda), was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.
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