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"Indian Islands" in Greek (Ινδονησία), apparently invented in the mid-19th century to mean "Indies Islands", from the islands' previous name "East Indies". Dutch East Indies, a former name: a translation of the Dutch Nederlands Oost-Indië Hindia-Belanda, a former name: the Indonesian form of the Dutch name above.
Indo-Surinamese are also known locally by the Dutch term Hindoestanen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌɦɪnduˈstaːnə(n)]), derived from the word Hindustani, lit., "someone from Hindustan". [5] Hence, when Indians migrated to Suriname they were referred to as Hindustanis, people of Indian origin.
According to the Dutch governmental institution Statistics Netherlands (CBS), 65,339 individuals were of Indian origin as of 31 May 2022. [20] The Embassy of India states that the Netherlands has the "second largest population of people of Indian origin in Europe (next only to UK)" and that it is "home to about 220,000 Indian and Surinamese ...
The Dutch people started to develop a national identity, beginning in the 15th century, but they officially remained a part of the Holy Roman Empire until 1648. National identity was mainly formed by the province people came from. Holland was the most important province by far.
The Indo people (Dutch: Indische Nederlanders, Indonesian: Orang Indo) or Indos are Eurasian people living in or connected with Indonesia.In its narrowest sense, the term refers to people in the former Dutch East Indies who held European legal status but were of mixed Dutch and indigenous Indonesian descent as well as their descendants today.
The name Caven is an anglicisation of the Dutch word Kewan, [20] which in turn was a "Batavianized" [21] derivative of an Algonquian word meaning peninsula. [22] The area is now a part of Liberty State Park in Jersey City , after having served as a large railyard, train station, and ferry terminal for many years.
Pages in category "Dutch masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 368 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .