WebThe Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie) was a Dutch United East India Company (VOC) colony in Southern Africa, centered on the Cape of Good Hope, from where it derived its name.The original colony and its successive states that the colony was incorporated into occupied much of modern South Africa.Between 1652 and 1691 it was a Commandment, …

WebCape Dutch architecture is a architectural style found mostly in the Western Cape of South Africa, but modern examples of the style have also been exported as far afield as Western Australia and New Zealand, typically on wine estates. The style was prominent in the early days (17th century) of the Cape Colony, and the name derives from the initial settlers of …

WebDutch Cape Colony (1652–1806) Asia. Scale model of Dutch trading post on display in Dejima, Nagasaki (1995) Ground-plan of the Dutch trade-post on the island Dejima at Nagasaki. An imagined bird's-eye view of Dejima's layout and structures (copied from a woodblock print by Toshimaya Bunjiemon of 1780).

WebThe Dutch–Portuguese War (Dutch: Nederlands-Portugese Oorlog; Portuguese: Guerra Luso-Holandesa) was a global armed conflict involving Dutch forces, in the form of the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company, as well as their allies against the Iberian Union, and after 1640, the Portuguese Empire.Beginning in 1602, the …

WebDutch Ceylon (Sinhala: ලන්දේසි ලංකාව Landesi Lankava Tamil: ஒல்லாந்த இலங்கை Ollanda Ilankai) was a governorate established in present-day Sri Lanka by the Dutch East India Company.Although the Dutch managed to capture most of the coastal areas in Sri Lanka, they were never able to control the Kandyan Kingdom located in the …

WebAs a group, the islands are known as the Maagdeneilanden in Dutch. The Dutch established a base on St. Croix (Sint-Kruis) in 1625, the same year that the British did. French Protestants joined the Dutch but conflict with the British colony led to its abandonment before 1650. The Dutch established a settlement on Tortola (Ter Tholen) …

WebThe written history of the Cape Colony in what is now South Africa began when Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias became the first modern European to round the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. In 1497, Vasco da Gama sailed along the whole coast of South Africa on his way to India, landed at St Helena Bay for 8 days, and made a detailed …

WebThe Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope, which existed from 1795 to 1802, and again from 1806 to 1910, when it united with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa.. The British colony was preceded by an …

WebSurinam was a Dutch colony from 26 February 1667, when Dutch forces captured Francis Willoughby's English colony during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, until 15 December 1954, when Surinam became a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.The status quo of Dutch sovereignty over Surinam, and English sovereignty over New Netherland, …

WebThe Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt (Dutch: Nederlandse Opstand) (c.1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government.The causes of the war included the Reformation, centralisation, taxation, and the rights and privileges of the nobility and cities.After the initial stages, …