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They plundered weapons, ammunition and the treasury of the island. [11] They also managed to capture the Governor of the island, Leonardus Albertus Fruytier, and hauled him off to Venezuela on the stolen American ship Maracaibo. [10] Following the raid the Dutch government decided to permanently station marines and ships on the island. [11] [12]
The island's name "Curaçao" may originate from the indigenous autonym of its people; this idea is supported by early Spanish accounts referring to the inhabitants as Indios Curaçaos. Curaçao's history begins with the Arawak and Caquetio Amerindians; the island becoming a Spanish colony after Alonso de Ojeda's 1499 expedition.
Shortly thereafter, on 3 March 1951, the Island Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Eilandenregeling Nederlandse Antillen or ERNA; Papiamento: Regulashon Insular delas Antias Hulandes or RIAH) was issued by royal decree, giving fairly substantial autonomy to the various island territories in the Netherlands Antilles. A consolidated ...
The ABC islands is the physical group of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.These islands have a shared political history and a status of Dutch underlying ownership, since the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 ceded them back to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as Curaçao and Dependencies from 1815.
Basilica of St. Anne in Willemstad, Curaçao. Curaçao is mostly Catholic, with 72.8% of Curaçao's population being members of the Catholic church. [1]The entire island falls within the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Willemstad, which also extends to Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten.
Slavery was not abolished on Curaçao until 1863, when there were 5,498 enslaved people living on the island. [3] Today, 17 August is celebrated as the beginning of the liberation struggle. [1] There is a monument to Tula and the rebels on the south coast of Curaçao where Tula was executed, near the modern-day Corendon Mangrove Beach Resort. [9]
Little Curaçao is an island no man can settle, and a pink lighthouse is all that's left. Just to the southeast of the Caribbean island of Curaçao is the small ghostly island of Klein ...
The mineral was a lucrative export at the time and became one of the major factors responsible for drawing the island into international commerce. [citation needed] For much of the 17th and 18th centuries, the primary business of the island was the slave trade. Enslaved Africans arrived often from Africa and were bought and sold on the docks in ...