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Dutch colonization in the Caribbean started in 1634 on St. Croix and Tobago (1628), followed in 1631 with settlements on Tortuga (now Île Tortue) and Sint Maarten.When the Dutch lost Sint Maarten (and Anguilla where they had built a fort shortly after arriving in Sint Maarten) to the Spanish, they settled Curaçao and Sint Eustatius.
In 1597, the Spanish (Castilian) crown lost the Netherlands (Holland). In 1640, Portugal split away after Philip II had incorporated it to its domains in 1581. A second independence tide came about following the Independence of the Thirteen Colonies in North America and the Battle of Trafalgar that heralded the end of the Spanish Atlantic hegemony.
Spanish Formosa; Río de Oro; Saguia el-Hamra; Spanish Oran; Spanish protectorate in Morocco The Battle of Tétouan, 1860, by Marià Fortuny; Spanish Sahara; Spanish Tripoli; Viceroyalty of Peru. Captaincy General of Chile; Viceroyalty of New Granada. Captaincy General of Venezuela; Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Spanish Guinea
The Spanish Netherlands (Spanish: Países Bajos Españoles; Dutch: Spaanse Nederlanden; French: Pays-Bas espagnols; German: Spanische Niederlande) (historically in Spanish: Flandes, the name "Flanders" was used as a pars pro toto) [4] was the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to 1714.
Habsburg Netherlands (7 C, 11 P) L. Larache (7 P) ... Pages in category "Former Spanish colonies" The following 105 pages are in this category, out of 105 total.
The Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised overseas territories and trading posts under some form of Dutch control from the early 17th to late 20th centuries, including those initially administered by Dutch chartered companies—primarily the Dutch East India Company (1602–1799) and Dutch West India Company (1621–1792)—and subsequently governed by the Dutch ...
The European countries which had the most colonies throughout history were: United Kingdom (130), France (90), ... Spanish Netherlands; Franche-Comté ...
The continent was colonized by the Europeans: First by the Spaniards, and the Portuguese; and later by the Dutch, the French, and the English. Most of the present-day nations gained independence in the early 19th century, all of Latin America except for two Spanish colonies in North America gained independence between 1808 and 1826. [1]