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  2. 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.

  3. New Netherland - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. Dutch East Indies - Wikipedia

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    Dutch colonial families, through their domestic servants and cooks, were exposed to Indonesian cuisine, and as a result they developed a taste for native tropical spices and dishes. A notable Dutch East Indies colonial dish is rijsttafel, a rice table consisting of 7 to 40 popular dishes from across the colony. More an extravagant banquet than ...

  5. List of flags of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    Flag of the governor of the Dutch East Indies: National tricolour, within the upper-right white canton, two red balls. 1920–1966 Flag of the governor of Curaçao and Dependencies: National tricolour, within the red stripe three white balls. Flag of the governor of Surinam: 1951–1962 Flag of the governor of Dutch New Guinea: 1966–1975 ...

  6. Surinam (Dutch colony) - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Guianas from 1700. Surinam was a Dutch colony from 26 February 1667, when Dutch forces captured Francis Willoughby's English colony during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, until 15 December 1954, when Surinam became a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

  7. Dutch colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The Dutch West India Company set up their headquarters in Recife; it also exported a tradition of religious tolerance to its New World colonies, most notable to Dutch Brazil. [6] The governor, Johan Maurits , invited artists and scientists in order to help promote migration to the new South-American colony.

  8. Flag of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    The national flag of the Netherlands (Dutch: de Nederlandse vlag) is a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. The current design originates as a variant of the late 16th century orange-white-blue Prinsenvlag ("Prince's Flag"), evolving in the early 17th century as the red-white-blue Statenvlag ("States Flag"), the naval flag of the States-General of the Dutch Republic, making the Dutch ...

  9. Evolution of the Dutch colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    In 1652, the Dutch East India Company under Jan van Riebeeck established a resupply station at the Cape of Good Hope, situated halfway between the Dutch East Indies and the Dutch West Indies. Great Britain seized the colony in 1797 during the wars of the First Coalition (in which the Netherlands were allied with revolutionary France), and ...

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