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    The Elmina Java Museum is a museum in Elmina, Ghana, dedicated to the history of the so-called Belanda Hitam; soldiers recruited in the 19th century in...
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    history has been maintained at Elmina has been preserved in its own Java Museum. Another legacy of Elmina's connection with Java is the art of batik, which...
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    the Dutch shipped from the Dutch Gold Coast between 1830 and 1872. Elmina Java Museum Askari Mardijker people Colonial troops The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi...
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  • This is a list of museums, including botanical collections and gardens, in Ghana. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML...
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  • libretto by Japin and music by the British composer Jonathan Dove. Elmina Java Museum Mendelsohn, Daniel (27 November 2000). "Telltale Hearts". New York...
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    The invasion of Java was a successful British amphibious operation against Java in the Dutch East Indies between August and September 1811 during the...
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    Indonesia portal Majapahit Museum Gosari inscription Indonesian Esoteric Buddhism Javanese Kshatriya Kidung Sunda List of monarchs of Java Osing Srivijaya Tenggerese...
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    colonializing army in Indonesia. Many members of the Belanda Hitam retired to Elmina, in modern Ghana, where they may have provided an early market for Dutch...
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    efforts were made at preserving Bali culture and at making it a "living museum" of classical culture,. In 1914, Bali was opened to tourism. Vicki Baum's...
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    its colonial possessions in the Indonesian archipelago (including much of Java, parts of Sumatra, much of Maluku, and the hinterlands of ports such as Makasar...
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    against Java in the late 7th century, a period which coincided with the decline of Tarumanagara in West Java and the Kalingga in Central Java. The empire...
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    Portuguese between 1641 and 1648. Due to the distance between Luanda and Elmina, the capital of the Dutch Gold Coast, a separate administration for the...
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    200 graves of Dutch soldiers as well as recruits from Ambon, Manado and Java, as well as several Dutch generals. Indonesia portal Netherlands portal Politics...
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  • now the Museum Nasional Indonesia, but plenty of weaponry and jewellery found its way to the Netherlands, to be deposited in the National Museum of Ethnology...
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    Bredsdorff, Asta (2009). The Trials and Travels of Willem Leyel. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. ISBN 9788763530231. Bredsdorff, Asta (1999). Søhistoriske...
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    1679 CE, Barbot provided an account of surfing among Elmina children in Ghana: “children at Elmina learned “to swim, on bits of boards, or small bundles...
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    gold and enslaved Africans with the kingdom of Accra (present-day Ghana). Elmina Castle was the main port. In 1654 the Dutch were thrown out of Brazil after...
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    Asian archipelago were Sanfoqi and Java (Kediri), with the western part (Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, and western Java/Sunda) under Sanfoqi's rule and the...
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    was settled from the Dutch Gold Coast, on which the Dutch were based in Elmina. During its existence, the Slave Coast held a close relationship to that...
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  • off Lizard Point, Cornwall, England Battle of Elmina (1637) 24–29 August – The Dutch captured Fort Elmina from the Portuguese Siege of Roermond 29 August...
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    Hertog's slaves were more expensive than at the Gold Coast. From 1735, Elmina became the preferred spot to trade slaves. As of 1778, it was estimated...
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    Under John II (1481–1495) the fortress of São Jorge da Mina, the modern Elmina, was founded for the protection of the Guinea trade. Diogo Cão, or Can,...
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    territory when they purchased the Dutch Gold Coast from the Dutch, including Elmina which was claimed by the Ashanti. The Dutch had signed the Treaty of Butre...
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    Indian Muslims, resided further north in areas such as Kampung Rawa with Java Street (now Jalan Tun Perak) the boundary between the Chinese and Malay areas...
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    links with Sukarno's nationalist movement, together with Ahmad Zaidi, in Java in the 1940s. However, the Brunei People's Party was in favour of joining...
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    Some of the retrieved artefacts from Nassau are on display at the Lukut Museum in Port Dickson. Winstedt, R. O. (1932). "[A History of Johore (1365—1895...
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    Archipelago are evidence of this. In addition, cotton was transshipped from Java or India through Singapura. The increase in activities by Chinese traders...
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    and islands of the Gulf of Guinea, including São Tomé and Príncipe and Elmina on the Gold Coast in 1471. There, in what came to be called the "Gold Coast"...
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    tribute to China again. In 1416, they sent tribute together with Kozhikode and Java envoys, and in return Zheng He was again ordered to go to Pahang. The 15th...
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    to Singapore, contributing to the Allied cause before being recalled to Java on 18 January. Several Dutch pilots—including Jacob van Helsdingen and August...
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