The Dutch purchased Manhattan Island and founded New Amsterdam as the capital of their colony ... instead of writing this article about the forgotten colonies of the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark, ...

Former Netherlands ruling party won’t join new ... Slavery was abolished in Suriname and the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean on July 1, 1863. Most enslaved laborers were… Dutch colonizers ...

“High-style Dutch, French, and Spanish dwellings remained rare in [this] area of the New World, for the Netherlands soon lost ...

The King of the Netherlands ... In June, a new study revealed that Dutch rulers received the equivalent of €545m ($595m) in today's money between 1675 and 1770 from colonies where slavery ...

Sint Maarten is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... 1631 - Dutch build a fort on the island, which is useful stopover between their colonies of New Amsterdam (New ...

“My family, my parents, my ancestors, all come from Suriname in South America, a former Dutch colony ... and in the colonies.

On the eve of a new ... The Netherlands has successfully integrated waves of migrants from former colonies – including Indonesia, a nation where about 90 per cent of the population is Muslim. But ...

Indore: Property guideline in Indore has been increased for the second time in the current financial year at 469 existing locations and 111 new colonies out of a total of 5,325 locations in the ...

John Adams reviews “Every Valley,” Charles King’s new book about the artistic, social and political forces surrounding one of ...

This class closely examines the colonies of Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine, New Netherland/New York, Rhode Island and the Carolinas from the early seventeenth century through the ...