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  2. Dutch colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Dutch Americans - Wikipedia

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    According to 2021 US Census data, 3,083,041 [1] Americans self-reported to be of (partial) Dutch ancestry, while 884,857 [2] Americans claimed full Dutch heritage. 2,969,407 Dutch Americans were native born in 2021, while 113,634 Dutch Americans were foreign-born, of which 61.5% was born in Europe and 62,9% entered the United States before 2000.

  4. New Amsterdam - Wikipedia

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    The Dutch-American historian and journalist Hendrik Willem van Loon wrote in 1933 a work of alternative history entitled "If the Dutch Had Kept Nieuw Amsterdam" (in If, Or History Rewritten, edited by J. C. Squire, 1931, Simon & Schuster).

  5. Dutch colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    Dutch and Portuguese colonial empires at their Treaty of the Hague war settlement in 1661. The Dutch attacked most of Portugal's far-flung trading network in and around Asia, including Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), and Goa, as well as attacks upon her commercial interests in Japan, Africa (especially Mina), and South America.

  6. Dutch Americans in New York City - Wikipedia

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    The African American Pinkster Committee of New York (AAPCNY) along with the African Burial Ground National Monument hold an annual pinkster celebration in New York City. Originally a Dutch Christian holiday celebrating Pentecost , pinkster has subsequently evolved into a primarily African-American holiday incorporating elements of Angolan ...

  7. Jewish arrival in New Amsterdam - Wikipedia

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    The Jewish arrival in New Amsterdam of September 1654 was the first organized Jewish migration to North America. It comprised 23 Sephardi Jews, refugees "big and little" of families fleeing persecution by the Portuguese Inquisition after the conquest of Dutch Brazil.

  8. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Dutch colony of New Netherland was taken over by the English and renamed New York. However, large numbers of Dutch remained in the colony, dominating the rural areas between New York City and Albany. Meanwhile, Yankees from New England started moving in, as did immigrants from Germany. New York City attracted a large polyglot population ...

  9. Category:Dutch emigrants to the United States - Wikipedia

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    Dutch emigrants to New Netherland (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Dutch emigrants to the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 431 total.