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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. Following the Indonesian War of Independence, Indonesia and the Netherlands made peace in
Pieter Jansz was born in Amsterdam on September 25, 1820. His theology was Protestant orthodoxy with a bias toward Pietist expressions. Within a three-month period in 1848, he lost both his father and his newlywed wife, Johanna Elisabeth van Ijzendoorn, through death.
With 32.2% of the Dutch identifying as adhering to a religion, among which 25% adhere to Christianity and 5% to Islam, the Netherlands is one of the least religious countries of Europe. During the late 20th century, in keeping with changes in their society, the Dutch liberalized their policies on abortion , drug use , euthanasia , homosexuality ...
After the VOC collapsed and with the legalisation of Catholicism in the Netherlands starting around 1800, Dutch Catholic clergy predominated until after Indonesia's independence. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] In present-day Flores , the royal house of Larantuka formed the only native Catholic kingdom in Southeast Asia around the 16th century, with the first ...
The religion most often adhered to by the Moluccans in the Netherlands is Protestant Christianity, and to a lesser extent Islam. [ citation needed ] There are significant number of native Hindu (Tanimbar Kei people) followers in Kei Islands , a predominantly Catholic region, despite the Maluku province's overall Christian population being ...
Location of Montgomery County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Montgomery County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Texas. There are two properties listed on the National Register in the county ...
However, Dutch power remained limited in the west and was primarily in the hands of their Timorese allies. In 1681, the Dutch conquered the western island of Roti, from where slaves were subsequently brought to Timor. [30] The Dutch also recruited soldiers for their army there and built schools after the local ruler converted to Christianity in ...
Advertisement for the sale of lots in the Town of Montgomery, Texas from the July 8, 1837 edition of the Telegraph and Texas Register newspaper published in Houston, Texas. The town of Montgomery was founded in the middle of the Lake Creek Settlement by W. W. Shepperd in July 1837 on 200 acres of land that had originally been part of the John ...