Ambon was a governorate of the Dutch East India Company, consisting of Ambon Island and ten neighbouring islands. Steven van der Hagen captured Fort Victoria...
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Ambon Island, the capital of Maluku province Governorate of Ambon, a colony of the Dutch East India Company from 1605 to 1796 Ambon, Morbihan, a commune in...
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Zealand during the late 19th century Fort Victoria, capital of the Dutch Governorate of Ambon In the 19th century Bankot fort, near Suvarnadurg, was known...
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Ambon Island is part of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. The island has an area of 743.37 km2 (287.02 sq mi) and is mountainous, well watered, and fertile...
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Herman van Speult (category Sailors on ships of the Dutch East India Company)
true, full of the pox." He was active as governor of Ambon from 1618 until 1625. In 1618 he was appointed as governor of the Governorate of Ambon as the successor...
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Maluku Islands (redirect from Isles of Spice)
Maluku province has a larger Christian population, and its capital is Ambon. Though originally Melanesian, many island populations especially in the...
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Ambelau (category Islands of the Maluku Islands)
Ambalau was included in the Governorate of Ambon, whose leader was based in Ambon and who reported directly to the Governor-General of the Netherlands East Indies...
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Boano (category Islands of the Maluku Islands)
Ambon and surrounding areas including Buano. Until 1917, Boano was listed as an area of the West Seram Onderafdeling, Afdeling Seram, Governorate of Ambon...
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Hendrik Crudop (category Governors of the Dutch Cape Colony)
was granted in 1680 and in 1681 he was appointed Governor of Honimoa in the Governorate of Ambon. Illness however forced him to return to Batavia in 1682...
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Justitie (Council of Justice) of the Governorate of Ambon on Ambon island. They were transported from Saparua to Ambon and hanged in front of Fort Victoria...
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Orientales Kingdom of Tierra Firme (1498–1537) Governorate of New Andalusia (1501–1513) Governorate of Castilla de Oro (1514–1539) Governorate of New Castile...
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Batavia, Dutch East Indies (redirect from Governorate General of Batavia)
much larger area of the Residency of Batavia in the present-day Indonesian provinces of Jakarta, Banten and West Java. The founding of Batavia by the Dutch...
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The Banda Islands were a governorate of the Dutch East India Company. The governorate comprised Banda Neira, Banda Besar, Pulau Ai, Run, Banda Api, and...
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Bandar Abbas (redirect from List of mayors of Bandar Abbas)
coast of the country, on the Persian Gulf. The city occupies a strategic position on the narrow Strait of Hormuz (just across from Musandam Governorate, Oman)...
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Banda Islands (redirect from History of the Banda Islands)
in Malacca.: 5, 7 Unlike inhabitants of other eastern Indonesian islands visited by the Portuguese, such as Ambon, Solor, Ternate and Morotai, the Bandanese...
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Dutch Cape Colony (redirect from Commander of the Cape)
between 1691 and 1795, a Governorate of the VOC. Jan van Riebeeck established the colony as a re-supply and layover port for vessels of the VOC trading with...
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Bonaire (redirect from List of mountain peaks of Bonaire)
municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands. Its capital is the port of Kralendijk, on the west (leeward) coast of the island. Aruba, Bonaire and...
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Curaçao (redirect from Island Territory of Curaçao)
65 km (40 mi) north of Venezuela. It is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Curaçao includes the main island of Curaçao and the much...
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Aruba (redirect from History of Aruba)
population of 108,166, Aruba is home to about one-third of the population of the Dutch Caribbean. As one of the four countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands...
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governor of Ambon Gaspar de Melo surrendered the fort on 22 February 1605 to the Dutch forces, the fort was renamed to fort Victoria, and Ambon was placed...
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Banten (town) (redirect from City of Banten)
Bantam, is a port town near the western end of Java, Indonesia. It has a secure harbour at the mouth of Banten River, a navigable passage for light craft...
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Dutch New Guinea (category History of Western New Guinea)
into Residentie der Molukken. The residency oversaw Afdeeling Ternate, Ambon, Tual, and North and West New Guinea. The Onderafdeeling Zuid-Nieuw-Guinea...
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New Holland (Acadia) (redirect from Dutch Conquest of Acadie)
established by Dutch naval captain Jurriaen Aernoutsz upon seizing the capital of Acadia, Fort Pentagouet in Penobscot Bay (present-day Castine, Maine), and...
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Company rule in the Dutch East Indies (category History of the Dutch East India Company)
Both was made governor-general in 1610. In that same year, Ambon Island was made headquarters of the VOC's East Indies. Batavia was made the capital from...
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city of the Al Batinah North Governorate in Oman. An ancient capital of the country that once served as an important Islamic port town on the Gulf of Oman...
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sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united under the monarch of the Netherlands, who functions as head of state. The realm is...
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Conquistador (category History of indigenous peoples of the Americas)
Catholics in the area, mostly on Ambon, and by the 1590s there were 50,000 to 60,000, although most of the region surrounding Ambon remained Muslim. Mauritius...
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after taking a route through which they also reached first the islands of Buru, Ambon and Seram. From Banda Abreu returned to Malacca, while his vice-captain...
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Dutch Bengal (category Former trading posts of the Dutch East India Company)
directorate of the Dutch East India Company in Mughal Bengal between 1610 until the company's liquidation in 1800. It then became a colony of the Kingdom of the...
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Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, which ceded Dutch Malacca, a governorate of the Dutch East Indies that...
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