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2 days ago · From 1596 to 1829, the Dutch traders sold 250,000 slaves in the Dutch Guianas, 142,000 in the Dutch Caribbean islands, and 28,000 in Dutch Brazil. In addition, tens of thousands of slaves, mostly from India and some from Africa, were carried to the Dutch East Indies [76] and slaves from the East Indies to Africa and the West Indies.
2 days ago · Sint Maarten (Dutch pronunciation: [sɪntˈmaːrtə(n)] ⓘ) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean region of North America. With a population of 41,486 as of January 2019 on an area of 34 km 2 (13 sq mi), it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin, while the northern 56% of the island constitutes the French overseas collectivity ...
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1 day ago · Between 1830 and 1870, 840 million guilder (€8 billion in 2018) were taken from the East Indies, on average making a third of the annual Dutch government budget. The Cultivation System, however, brought much economic hardship to Javanese peasants, who suffered famine and epidemics in the 1840s.
May 2, 2024 · Peter Minuit (born c. 1580, Wesel, Kleve [Germany]—died June 1638, Caribbean Sea) was a Dutch colonial governor of New Amsterdam who is mainly remembered for his fabulous purchase of Manhattan Island (the nucleus of New York City) from the Indians for trade goods worth a mere 60 guilders.
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May 17, 2024 · The Netherlands Antillean guilder was established in 1821 as an official national currency and is used only in Sint Maarten and in Curacao. 1 Gulden is devided into 100 Cents. The Netherlands Antillean guilder is tied to the US dollar with a fixed exchange rate. Therefore, 1 guilder always equals to 0.5587 US dollar. ISO 4127: ANG. Numeric: 532.
4 days ago · “The peak value of the Company was worth 78 million Dutch guilders, which translates to a whopping $7.9 trillion in modern dollars, roughly the same amount as the GDPs of modern-day Japan ($4.8T) and Germany ($3.4T) added together.
3 days ago · Together with English, Frisian, German, and Luxembourgish, Dutch is a West Germanic language. It derives from Low Franconian, the speech of the Western Franks, which was restructured through contact with speakers of North Sea Germanic along the coast (Flanders, Holland) about 700 ce.
