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1 day ago · The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch: Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda), was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.
2 days ago · Appointed by the governor-general of the Dutch East Indies in Batavia (modern-day Jakarta, Indonesia), the governor of Formosa was empowered to legislate, collect taxes, wage war and declare peace on behalf of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and therefore by extension the Dutch state.
2 days ago · The archives includes records from almost 200 years of the Dutch East India Company's (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie in Dutch, often abbreviated VOC) operations beginning in 1602 when the company was charted up until 1799 when the company was dissolved.
3 days ago · He was taken to Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia) to learn Dutch, and there he seems to have noticed the threat that the Dutch posed to indigenous ways of life. When he returned to the Cape, he consistently advocated Khoikhoi interests, especially of the Peninsular tribes, over those of the Dutch in trade negotiations.
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One of a pair of 17,000 gross register ton motorships built for Rotterdam Lloyd in 1929-30, Baloeran and sister ship Dempo joined the earlier motorship Indrapora and the steam turbine liner Slamat as the core of the company's express mail service to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies.
1 day ago · In 1905, Surabaya received the status of municipality (gemeente). In 1926, Surabaya was designated the capital of the province of East Java. Since then Surabaya developed into the second largest city in the Dutch East Indies after Batavia. Before 1900, the city center of Surabaya revolved around the Jembatan Merah; (English: Red Bridge). In ...
3 days ago · The Kota (“City”; also called Kota Tua [“Old City”] or Old Batavia) area, sometimes called the downtown section, is the historical city centre, and it houses a significant part of the Chinese population. The contemporary city’s business and financial hub lies somewhat to the south of Kota, primarily along Jenderal Sudirman and ...
