WebThe Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation founded in 1892, best known as the producer of Coca-Cola.The Coca-Cola Company also manufactures, sells, and markets other non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, and alcoholic beverages.The company's stock is listed on the NYSE and is part of the …

WebThe Swedish East India Company (Swedish: Svenska Ostindiska Companiet or SOIC) was founded in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1731 for the purpose of conducting trade with China and the Far East.The venture was inspired by the success of the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company.This made Gothenburg a European …

WebIn the United States, a patroon (English: / p ə ˈ t r uː n /; from Dutch patroon) was a landholder with manorial rights to large tracts of land in the 17th century Dutch colony of New Netherland on the east coast of North America. Through the Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions of 1629, the Dutch West India Company first started to grant this title and …

WebThe South West Pacific theatre, during World War II, was a major theatre of the war between the Allies and the Axis.It included the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies (except for Sumatra), Borneo, Australia and its mandate Territory of New Guinea (including the Bismarck Archipelago) and the western part of the Solomon Islands.This area was …

WebProstitution in the Netherlands is legal and regulated.Operating a brothel is also legal. De Wallen, the largest and best-known Red-light district in Amsterdam, is a destination for international sex tourism.From 1 January 2022, a customer will be punished if they purchase a sexual service from a sex worker of whom they know or have serious reason to suspect …

WebThe East Indies (or simply the Indies), is a term used in historical narratives of the Age of Discovery.The Indies refers to various lands in the East or the Eastern hemisphere, particularly the islands and mainlands found in and around the Indian Ocean by Portuguese explorers, soon after the Cape route was discovered. Nowadays, this term is broadly …

WebThe Company of Merchant Adventurers of London was a trading company founded in the City of London in the early 15th century. It brought together leading merchants in a regulated company in the nature of a guild.Its members' main business was exporting cloth, especially white (undyed) broadcloth, in exchange for a large range of foreign goods. It …

WebNew Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw-Nederland) was the seventeenth-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and the Dutch West India Company.It claimed territories along the eastern coast of North America from the Delmarva Peninsula to southwestern Cape Cod.Settled areas of New Netherland now constitute the states of …

WebThe Dutch contracted many of these immigrants as skilled artisans in the construction of Batavia (Jakarta) on the northwestern coast of Java. A recently created harbor was selected as the new headquarters of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) in 1609 by Jan Pieterszoon Coen. It grew into a major hub for trade ...

WebDutch New Guinea or Netherlands New Guinea (Dutch: Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea, Indonesian: Nugini Belanda) was the western half of the island of New Guinea that was a part of the Dutch East Indies until 1949, later an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1949 to 1962. It contained what are now Indonesia's five easternmost …

WebMany flags were used in South Africa prior to political unification in 1910.; The original Dutch East India Company colony at the Cape of Good Hope (1652–1795) flew the Dutch flag, with the VOC logo in the centre. This flag was also flown during the period of Batavian Republic rule (1803–06).; The Boer Republics, i.e. the Orange Free State (1854–1902), …

WebAntwerp (/ ˈ æ n t w ɜːr p / (); Dutch: Antwerpen [ˈɑntʋɛrpə(n)] (); French: Anvers ()) is the largest city in Belgium by area at 204.51 square kilometres (78.96 sq mi) and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region.With a population of 520,504, it is the most populous city center in Belgium, and with a metropolitan population of around 1,200,000 …

WebThe history of socialist thought includes a long associational and anti-statist tradition prior to the political victory of the Bolshevism in the east and varieties of Fabianism in the west". [70] Libertarian socialism is anticapitalist and can be distinguished from capitalist and right-libertarian principles, which concentrate economic power ...