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3 days ago · When several English ships arrived in the port of New Amsterdam that same year, Peter Stuyvesant, the colony’s director general, surrendered and handed it over. In 1667, by virtue of the Treaty of Breda, the Dutch renounced New Amsterdam in exchange for Suriname, which was in English hands. From then on, New Amsterdam was renamed New York.
2 days ago · In the early 2nd century CE, the Roman province called Judaea was renamed Syria Palaestina (literally, "Palestinian Syria"), and also incorporated some other, smaller, territories. This may have occured either before or after the suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135.
1 day ago · Turkmenistan is a country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ashgabat is the capital and largest city. It is one of the six independent Turkic states.
4 days ago · In 1948, Mariupol was renamed "Zhdanov", after the recently deceased close Stalin ally Andrei Zhdanov, who had been born in the city. The historic name of the city "Mariupol" was restored in 1989 after a popular grassroots movement advocated for the name change.
6 days ago · The Duke of Sussex revealed in an interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby last year that he holds the UK press responsible for everything from the death of his mother in 1997 to his current rift with the rest of his family. Speaking on GBN America, Levin said: "Harry went back and said, no, we didn't say that, it was the press. "He blamed it all on us.
6 days ago · COLOMBO (News 1st); Cabinet approval was granted today to rename the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital as the Galle National Hospital. The move comes following a proposal submitted by Minister of...
Igaming and sports betting software provider EveryMatrix has appointed Mihnea Dobre as Group Chief Technology Officer. Story continues below. EveryMatrix is based in Malta and has been led by CEO Ebbe Groes since it was founded in 2008.
