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Dutch Empire

April 28, 2023

The Dutch Empire or the Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies—mainly the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company—and subsequently by the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), and by the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands after 1815.[1] It was initially a trade-based system which derived most of its influence from merchant enterprise and from Dutch control of international maritime shipping routes through strategically placed outposts, rather than from expansive territorial ventures.[2][1] The Dutch were among the earliest empire-builders of Europe, following Spain and Portugal and one of the wealthiest nations of that time.[citation needed]

Dutch colonial empire
Nederlandse koloniale rijk
The Dutch colonial empire

With a few notable exceptions, the majority of the Dutch colonial empire's overseas holdings consisted of coastal forts, factories, and port settlements with varying degrees of incorporation of their hinterlands and surrounding regions.[2] Dutch chartered companies often dictated that their possessions be kept as confined as possible in order to avoid unnecessary expense,[3] and while some such as the Dutch Cape Colony and Dutch East Indies expanded anyway (due to the pressure of independent-minded Dutch colonists), others remained undeveloped, isolated trading centres dependent on an indigenous host-nation.[2] This reflected the primary purpose of the Dutch colonial empire: commercial exchange as opposed to sovereignty over homogeneous landmasses.[2]

The imperial ambitions of the Dutch were bolstered by the strength of their existing shipping industry, as well as the key role they played in the expansion of maritime trade between Europe and the Orient.[4] Because small European trading-companies often lacked the capital or the manpower for large-scale operations, the States General chartered larger organisations—the Dutch West India Company and the Dutch East India Company—in the early seventeenth century.[4] These were considered the largest and most extensive maritime trading companies at the time, and once held a virtual monopoly on strategic European shipping-routes westward through the Southern Hemisphere around South America through the Strait of Magellan, and eastward around Africa, past the Cape of Good Hope.[4] The companies' domination of global commerce contributed greatly to a commercial revolution and a cultural flowering in the Netherlands of the 17th century, known as the Dutch Golden Age.[5] In their search for new trade passages between Asia and Europe, Dutch navigators explored and charted distant regions such as Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and parts of the eastern coast of North America.[6] During the period of proto-industrialization, the empire received 50% of textiles and 80% of silks import from the India's Mughal Empire, chiefly from its most developed region known as Bengal Subah.[7][8][9][10]

In the 18th century, the Dutch colonial empire began to decline as a result of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War of 1780–1784, in which the Dutch Republic lost a number of its colonial possessions and trade monopolies to the British Empire, along with the conquest of the Mughal Bengal at the Battle of Plassey by the British East India Company.[11][12][13] Nevertheless, major portions of the empire survived until the advent of global decolonisation following World War II, namely the East Indies and Dutch Guiana.[14] Three former colonial territories in the West Indies islands around the Caribbean Sea—Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten—remain as constituent countries represented within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.[14]

Former Dutch colonial possessions

This list does not include several former trading posts stationed by Dutch, such as Dejima in Japan.

History

Origins (1590s–1602)

Main article: Voorcompagnie

In the 1560s, the Eighty Years' War broke out in the Habsburg Netherlands.[a] A coalition of rebel provinces united in the Union of Utrecht declared independence from the Spanish Empire with the 1581 Act of Abjuration, in 1588 establishing the de facto independent northern Dutch Republic (alias the United Provinces), whose sovereignty was recognised by the Treaty of Antwerp (1609). The eight decades of war came at a massive human cost, with an estimated 600,000 to 700,000 victims, of which 350,000 to 400,000 were civilians killed by disease and what would later be considered war crimes.[15] The war was largely fought on the European continent, but war was also conducted against Phillip II's overseas territories, including Spanish colonies and the Portuguese metropoles, colonies, trading posts and forts belonging at that time to the King of Spain and Portugal.[citation needed] The port of Lisbon in Portugal had since 1517 been the main European market for products from India, drawing merchants from across Europe to purchase exotic commodities. But as a result of Portugal's incorporation in the Iberian Union with Spain by Philip II in 1580, all Portuguese territories were thereafter Spanish Habsburg branch territory, and thus all Portuguese markets were closed to the United Provinces. Thus, in 1595, the Dutch decided to set sail on their own to acquire products for themselves, making use of the "secret" knowledge of the Portuguese trade routes, which Cornelis de Houtman had managed to acquire in Lisbon.[16]

The coastal provinces of Holland and Zeeland had been important hubs of the European maritime trade network for centuries prior to Spanish rule. Their geographical location provided convenient access to the markets of France, Scotland, Germany, England and the Baltic.[17] By the 1580s, the Eighty Years' War led many financiers and traders to emigrate from Antwerp, a major city in Brabant and then one of Europe's most important commercial centres, to Dutch cities, particularly Amsterdam,[18] which became Europe's foremost centre for shipping, banking, and insurance.[19] Efficient access to capital enabled the Dutch in the 1580s to extend their trade routes beyond northern Europe to new markets in the Mediterranean and the Levant. In the 1590s, Dutch ships began to trade with Brazil and the Dutch Gold Coast of Africa, towards the Indian Ocean, and the source of the lucrative spice trade.[20] This brought the Dutch into direct competition with Portugal, which had dominated these trade routes for several decades, and had established colonial outposts on the coasts of Brazil, Africa and the Indian Ocean to facilitate them. The rivalry with Portugal, however, was not entirely economic: from 1580, after the death of the King of Portugal, Sebastian I, and much of the Portuguese nobility in the Battle of Alcácer Quibir, the Portuguese crown had been joined to that of Spain in an "Iberian Union" under the heir of Emperor Charles V, Philip II of Spain. By attacking Portuguese overseas possessions, the Dutch forced Spain to divert financial and military resources away from its attempt to quell Dutch independence.[21] Thus began the several decade-long Dutch–Portuguese War.[citation needed]

In the 1590s, the voorcompagnieën ("pioneer companies") emerged, which were given "express instructions to focus on trade and engage in violence only in self-defense".[22] In 1594, the Compagnie van Verre ("Company of Far Lands") was founded in Amsterdam, with the aim of sending two fleets to the spice islands of Maluku.[23] The first fleet sailed in 1596 and returned in 1597 with a cargo of pepper, which more than covered the costs of the voyage. The second voyage (1598–1599), returned its investors a 400% profit.[24] The success of these voyages led to the founding of a number of companies competing for the trade. The competition was counterproductive to the companies' interests as it threatened to drive up the price of spices at their source in Indonesia whilst driving them down in Europe.[24][22] Simultaneously, some Dutch company ships in the 1590s had been starting to raid and plunder Spanish and Portuguese vessels or their Asian allies in order to seize their spices instead, a phenomenon which had to be rationalised and theoretically justified as a legitimate act of war against enemy ships.[22]

Establishment of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) (1602–1609)

See also: Evolution of the Dutch Empire

"The present deputies of the East India Company are seriously admonished to look into and give orders to the effect that the ships, which are already equipped or afterwards shall be equipped to sail to the East Indies, can have charge and instruction to damage the enemies and inflict harm on their persons, ships and goods by all means possible, so that they may with reputation not only continue their trade, but also expand it and make it grow, otherwise by neglecting this they will certainly lose it. For this was the principal reason why the Gentlemen States General have undertaken the union of the Companies and awarded them a charter and authorisation to inflict damage on the enemies."

– States-General resolution 1 November 1603[25]

As a result of the problems caused by inter-company rivalry, the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) was founded in 1602. The charter awarded to the Company by the States-General granted it sole rights, for an initial period of 21 years, to Dutch trade and navigation east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of the Straits of Magellan. The directors of the company, the "Heeren XVII", were given the legal authority to establish "fortresses and strongholds", to sign treaties, to enlist both an army and a navy, and to wage defensive war.[26] The company itself was founded as a joint stock company, similarly to its English rival that had been founded two years earlier, the English East India Company.[citation needed]

Shortly after the VOC was founded, the problem of justifying attacks on Spanish and Portuguese ships became more acute when in February 1603, the Portuguese carrack Santa Catarina was captured off the coast of Singapore by three VOC ships under the command of Jacob van Heemskerck.[22] When Heemskerck returned to Amsterdam in 1604 with the enormous booty from the Santa Catarina, this caused a major controversy in the Dutch Republic about the legality, utility, and moral permissibility of this act.[22] As a result, in September 1604 jurist Hugo Grotius wrote a treatise titled De Jure Praedae Commentarius ("Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty"), later published in 1609 as Mare Liberum, sive de jure quod Batavis competit ad Indicana commercia dissertatio ("The Freedom of the Seas, Or, The Right Which Belongs to the Dutch to Take Part in the East Indian Trade"), in which the act of aggression was justified.[22]

In the meantime, the States-General had already passed a resolution on 1 November 1603, authorising VOC ships "to damage the enemies and inflict harm on their persons, ships and goods by all means possible, so that they may with reputation not only continue their trade, but also expand it and make it grow".[25] This was a "critical" event according to several historical studies,[25] with Borschberg (2013) stating it "marked a major shift in policy of the VOC" and "set the cornerstone for the establishment of the Dutch colonial empire in Asia",[27] because the resolution transformed the VOC "into an instrument of war and colonial expansion that was directed against the Iberian powers in Asia and later, of course, also against local Asian rulers and polities."[27] Pursuing their quest for alternative routes to Asia for trade, the Dutch were disrupting the Spanish-Portuguese trade, and they eventually ranged as far afield as the Philippines. The Dutch sought to dominate the commercial sea trade in Southeast Asia, going so far in pursuit of this goal as to engage in what other nations and powers considered to be little more than piratical activities.[citation needed]

During the negotiations for and implementation of the Twelve Years' Truce in the years 1608–1610, the Dutch sought to secure all sorts of commercially and strategically important positions in Southeast Asia, and the VOC rushed to conclude as many contracts as possible with local monarchs and polities in the so-called frontline regions: the Malay Peninsula (particularly Johor), Sumatra, the Banda Islands, the Moluccas, Timor and southern India.[28]

Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands (1609–1621)

 
Dutch map of the Banda Islands, dated c. 1599–1619
This section is an excerpt from Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands.[edit]

The Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands was a process of military conquest from 1609 to 1621 by the Dutch East India Company of the Banda Islands. The Dutch, having enforced a monopoly on the highly lucrative nutmeg production from the islands, were impatient with Bandanese resistance to Dutch instructions that the Bandanese sell only to them. The Dutch used the death of a Dutch official as a casus belli for a forcible conquest of the islands. The islands became severely depopulated as a result of the massacres and forced deportations by the Dutch.

The Dutch East India Company, which was founded in 1602 as an amalgamation of 12 voorcompagnies, had extensive financial interests in maritime Southeast Asia, the source of highly profitable spices which were in high demand in Europe. A Dutch expedition had already made contact with the islands in 1599, signing several contracts with Bandanese chiefs. The profitability of the spices was heightened by the fact that they grew nowhere else on Earth, making them extremely valuable to whoever controlled them. As the Dutch attempted to form a monopoly over the spices and forbid the Bandanese from selling to any other group, they resisted, and the Dutch decided to conquer the islands by force. With the aid of Japanese mercenaries, the Dutch launched several military expeditions against the Bandanese.

The conquest culminated in the Banda massacre, which saw 2,800 Bandanese killed and 1,700 enslaved by the Dutch. Along with starvation and constant fighting, the Bandanese felt they could not continue to resist the Dutch and negotiated a surrender in 1621. Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the official in charge of the fighting, expelled the remaining 1,000 Bandanese to Batavia. With the Bandanese resistance ended, the Dutch secured their valuable monopoly on the spice trade.

Iberian–Dutch conflicts (until 1661)

Main articles: Dutch–Portuguese War, Dutch Brazil, and Groot Desseyn
 
São Luís, Maranhão, Dutch Brazil
 
Olinda, Pernambuco, Dutch Brazil
 
The Portuguese victory at the Battle of Guararapes, ended Dutch presence in Brazil.

The Dutch attacked most of Portugal's far-flung trading network in and around Asia, including Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), and Goa, as well as attacks upon her commercial interests in Japan, Africa (especially Mina), and South America. Even though the Portuguese had never been able to capture the entire island of Ceylon, they had been able to keep the coastal regions under their control for a considerable time before the coming of the Dutch in war. Portugal's South American colony, Brazil, was partially conquered by both France and the United Provinces.[citation needed]

In 1621, the Dutch West India Company (WIC) was set up and given a 25-year monopoly to those parts of the world not controlled by its East India counterpart: the Atlantic, the Americas and the west coast of Africa.[29] The Dutch also established a trading post in Ayutthaya, modern day Thailand during the reign of King Naresuan, in 1604.[citation needed]

In the 17th century, the "Grand Design" of the West India Company involved attempting to corner the international trade in sugar by attacking Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Africa, seizing both the sugarcane plantations and the slave ports needed to resupply their labour. Although weakened by the Iberian Union with Spain, whose attention was focused elsewhere, the Portuguese were able to fight off the initial assault before the Battle of Matanzas Bay provided the WIC with the funds needed for a successful operation. Johan Maurits was appointed governor of "New Holland" and landed at Recife in January 1637. In a series of successful expeditions, he gradually extended the Dutch possessions from Sergipe on the south to Maranhão in the north. The WIC also succeeded in conquering Gorée, Elmina Castle, Saint Thomas, and Luanda on the west coast of Africa. Both regions were also used as bases for Dutch privateers plundering Portuguese and Spanish trade routes. The dissolution of the Iberian Union in 1640 and Maurits's recall in 1643 led to increased resistance from the Portuguese colonists who still made up a majority of the Brazilian settlers. The Dutch were finally overcome during the 1650s but managed to receive 4 million reis (63 metric tons of gold) in exchange for extinguishing their claims over Brazil in the 1661 Treaty of the Hague.[citation needed]

Dutch colonisation of Asia

Main articles: Dutch East Indies, Dutch Malacca, Dutch Ceylon, Dutch India, Dutch Formosa, and Dutch Bengal
 
Primary Dutch and Portuguese settlements in Asia, c. 1665. With the exception of Jakarta and Deshima, all had been captured by the Dutch East India Company from Portugal.[26]

The war between Phillip II's possessions and other countries led to a deterioration of the Portuguese Empire, as with the loss of Ormuz to England in 1622, but the Dutch Empire was the main beneficiary.[citation needed]

The VOC began immediately to prise away the string of coastal fortresses that, at the time, comprised the Portuguese Empire. The settlements were isolated, difficult to reinforce if attacked, and prone to being picked off one by one, but nevertheless, the Dutch only enjoyed mixed success in its attempts to do so.[24] Amboina was captured from the Portuguese in 1605, but an attack on Malacca the following year narrowly failed in its objective to provide a more strategically located base in the East Indies with favourable monsoon winds.[30] The Dutch found what they were looking for in Jakarta, conquered by Jan Pieterszoon Coen in 1619, later renamed Batavia after the putative Dutch ancestors the Batavians, and which would become the capital of the Dutch East Indies. Meanwhile, the Dutch continued to drive out the Portuguese from their bases in Asia. Malacca finally succumbed in 1641 (after a second attempt to capture it), Colombo in 1656, Ceylon in 1658, Nagapattinam in 1662, and Cranganore and Cochin in 1662.[26]

Goa, the capital of the Portuguese Empire in the East, was unsuccessfully attacked by the Dutch in 1603 and 1610. Whilst the Dutch were unable in four attempts to capture Macau,[31] from where Portugal monopolized the lucrative China-Japan trade, the Tokugawa shogunate's increasing suspicion of the intentions of the Catholic Portuguese led to their expulsion in 1639. Under the subsequent sakoku policy, from 1639 till 1854 (215 years), the Dutch were the only European power allowed to operate in Japan, confined in 1639 to Hirado and then from 1641 at Dejima. In the mid-17th century, the Dutch also explored the western Australian coasts, naming many places.[citation needed]

 
Overview of Fort Zeelandia on the island of Formosa, 17th century

The Dutch colonised Mauritius in 1638, several decades after three ships out of the Dutch Second Fleet sent to the Spice Islands were blown off course in a storm and landed there in 1598. They named it in honour of Prince Maurice of Nassau, the Stadtholder of the Netherlands. The Dutch found the climate hostile and abandoned the island after several further decades.[citation needed]

 
Batavia, built in what is now Jakarta, 1682

The Dutch established a colony at Tayouan (present-day Anping), in the south of Taiwan, an island then largely dominated by Portuguese traders and known as Formosa; and, in 1642 the Dutch took northern Formosa from the Spanish by force.[citation needed]

The Dutch tried to use military force to make Ming China open up to Dutch trade but the Chinese defeated the Dutch in a war over the Penghu islands from 1623 to 1624, forcing the VOC to abandon Penghu for Taiwan. Then Chinese defeated the Dutch again at the Battle of Liaoluo Bay in 1633.[32][33][34][35]

In 1646, the Dutch tried to capture the Spanish colony in the Philippines. Although they had a large force at their disposal, they were defeated at the Battles of La Naval de Manila when they attempted to take Manila. After this defeat, they abandoned their efforts to capture Manila and the Philippines.[citation needed]

Between 1602 and 1796, the VOC sent almost a million Europeans to work in the Asia trade.[36] The majority died of disease or made their way back to Europe, but some of them made the Indies their new home.[37] Interaction between the Dutch and native population mainly took place in Sri Lanka and the modern Indonesian Islands. Through the centuries there developed a relatively large Dutch-speaking population of mixed Dutch and Indonesian descent, known as Indos or Dutch-Indonesians.[citation needed]

Dutch colonisation of the Americas

Main article: Dutch colonization of the Americas
Further information: Dutch Brazil, Dutch colonisation of the Guianas, and Surinam (Dutch colony)
 
Dutch conquests in the West Indies and Brazil[b]

In the Atlantic, the West India Company concentrated on wresting from Portugal its grip on the sugar and slave trade, and on opportunistic attacks on the Spanish treasure fleets on their homeward bound voyage.[38] Bahia on the north east coast of Brazil was captured in 1624 but only held for a year before it was recaptured by a joint Spanish-Portuguese expedition. In 1628, Piet Heyn captured the entire Spanish treasure fleet, and made off with a vast fortune in precious metals and goods that enabled the Company two years later to pay its shareholders a cash dividend of 70%,[39] though the Company was to have relatively few other successes against the Spanish.[40] In 1630, the Dutch occupied the Portuguese sugar-settlement of Pernambuco and over the next few years pushed inland, annexing the sugar plantations that surrounded it. In order to supply the plantations with the manpower they required, a successful expedition was launched from Brazil to capture the Portuguese slaving post of Elmina in 1637,[29] and successfully captured the Portuguese settlements in Angola in 1641.[41] In 1642, the Dutch captured the Portuguese possession of Axim in Africa. By 1650, the West India Company was firmly in control of both the sugar and slave trades, and had occupied the Caribbean islands of Sint Maarten, Curaçao, Aruba, and Bonaire in order to guarantee access to the islands' salt-pans.[42]

Unlike in Asia, Dutch successes against the Portuguese in Brazil and Africa were short-lived. Years of settlement had left large Portuguese communities under the rule of the Dutch, who were by nature traders rather than colonisers.[43] In 1645, the Portuguese community at Pernambuco rebelled against their Dutch masters,[40] and by 1654, the Dutch had been ousted from Brazil.[44] In the intervening years, a Portuguese expedition had been sent from Brazil to recapture Luanda in Angola, expelling the Dutch by 1648.[citation needed]

 
Reprint of a 1650 map of New Netherland

On the north-east coast of North America, the West India Company took over a settlement that had been established by the Company of New Netherland (1614–1618) at Fort Orange at Albany on the Hudson River,[45] relocated from Fort Nassau which had been founded in 1614. The Dutch had been sending ships annually to the Hudson River to trade fur since Henry Hudson's voyage of 1609.[46] To protect its precarious position at Albany from the nearby English and French, the Company founded the fortified town of New Amsterdam in 1625, at the mouth of the Hudson, encouraging settlement of the surrounding areas of Long Island and New Jersey.[47] The fur trade ultimately proved impossible for the Company to monopolize due to the massive illegal private trade in furs, and the settlement of New Netherland was unprofitable.[48] In 1655, the nearby colony of New Sweden on the Delaware River was forcibly absorbed into New Netherland after ships and soldiers were sent to capture it by the Dutch governor, Pieter Stuyvesant.[49]

Since its inception, the Dutch East India Company had been in competition with its counterpart, the English East India Company, founded two years earlier but with a capital base eight times smaller,[50] for the same goods and markets in the East. In 1619, the rivalry resulted in the Amboyna massacre, when several English Company men were executed by agents of the Dutch. The event remained a source of English resentment for several decades, and indeed was used as a cause célèbre as late as the Second Anglo-Dutch War in the 1660s; nevertheless, in the late 1620s the English Company shifted its focus from Indonesia to India.[50]

In 1643, the Dutch West India Company established a settlement in the ruins of the Spanish settlement of Valdivia, in southern Chile. The purpose of the expedition was to gain a foothold on the west coast of the Americas, an area that was almost entirely under the control of Spain (the Pacific Ocean, at least most of it to the east of the Philippines, being at the time almost a "Spanish lake"),[51] and to extract gold from nearby mines. Uncooperative indigenous peoples, who had forced the Spanish to leave Valdivia in 1604 contributed to get the expedition to leave after some months of occupation. This occupation triggered the return of the Spanish to Valdivia and the building of one of the largest defensive complexes of colonial America.[52][53]

Dutch colonisation of Southern Africa

Main article: Dutch Cape Colony
 
View of Table Bay with ships of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1683

By the middle of the 17th century, the Dutch East India Company had overtaken Portugal as the dominant player in the spice and silk trade, and in 1652 founded a colony at the Cape of Good Hope on the southern African coast, as a victualing station for its ships on the route between Europe and Asia.[54] Dutch immigration in the Cape rapidly swelled as prospective colonists were offered generous grants of land and tax exempt status in exchange for producing the food needed to resupply passing ships.[55][56] The Cape authorities also imported a number of Europeans of other nationalities, namely Germans and French Huguenots, as well as thousands of slaves from the East Indies, to bolster the local Dutch workforce.[55][57] Nevertheless, there was a degree of cultural assimilation between the various ethnic groups due to intermarriage and the universal adoption of the Dutch language, and cleavages were likelier to occur along social and racial lines.[58]

The Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope expanded beyond the initial settlement and its borders were formally consolidated as the composite Dutch Cape Colony in 1778.[59] At the time, the Dutch had subdued the indigenous Khoisan and San peoples in the Cape and seized their traditional territories.[59] Dutch military expeditions further east were halted when they encountered the westward expansion of the Xhosa people.[59] Hoping to avoid being drawn into a protracted dispute, the Dutch government and the Xhosa chieftains agreed to formally demarcate their respective areas of control and refrain from trespassing on each other's borders.[59] However, the Dutch proved unable to control their own settlers, who disregarded the agreement and crossed into Xhosa territory, sparking one of Southern Africa's longest colonial conflicts: the Xhosa Wars.[59]

Rivalry with Great Britain and France (1652–1795)

In 1651, the English parliament passed the first of the Navigation Acts which excluded Dutch shipping from the lucrative trade between England and its Caribbean colonies, and led directly to the outbreak of hostilities between the two countries the following year, the first of three Anglo-Dutch Wars that would last on and off for two decades and slowly erode Dutch naval power to England's benefit.[60][61]

In 1661, amidst the Qing conquest of China, Ming general Koxinga led a fleet to invade Formosa. The Dutch defense, led by governor Frederick Coyett, held out for nine months. However, after Koxinga defeated Dutch reinforcements from Java, Coyett surrendered Formosa.[62] The Dutch would never rule Formosa again.[citation needed]

The Second Anglo-Dutch War was precipitated in 1664, when English forces moved to capture New Netherland. Under the Treaty of Breda (1667), New Netherland was ceded to England in exchange for the English settlements in Suriname, which had been conquered by Dutch forces earlier that year. Though the Dutch would again take New Netherland in 1673, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, it was returned to England the following year, thereby ending Dutch rule in continental North America, but leaving behind a large Dutch community under English rule that persisted with its language, church and customs until the mid-18th century.[63] In South America, the Dutch seized Cayenne from the French in 1658 and drove off a French attempt to retake it a year later. However, it was returned to France in 1664, since the colony proved to be unprofitable. It was recaptured by the Dutch in 1676, but was returned again a year later, this time permanently. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 saw the Dutch William of Orange ascend to the throne, and win the English, Scottish, and Irish crowns, ending eighty years of rivalry between the Netherlands and England, while the rivalry with France remained strong.[citation needed]

During the American Revolutionary War, Britain declared war on the Netherlands, the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, in which Britain seized the Dutch colony of Ceylon. Under the Peace of Paris (1783), Ceylon was returned to the Netherlands and Negapatnam ceded to Britain.[citation needed]

Napoleonic era (1795–1815)

 
Dejima trading post in Japan, c. 1805

In 1795, the French Revolutionary Army invaded the Dutch Republic and turned the nation into a satellite of France, named the Batavian Republic. Britain, which was at war with France, soon moved to occupy Dutch colonies in Asia, South Africa, and the Caribbean.[citation needed]

Under the terms of the Treaty of Amiens signed by Britain and France in 1802, the Cape Colony and the islands of the Dutch West Indies that the British had seized were returned to the Republic. Ceylon was not returned to the Dutch and was made a British Crown Colony. After the outbreak of hostilities between Britain and France again in 1803, the British retook the Cape Colony. The British also invaded and captured the island of Java in 1811.[citation needed]

In 1806, Napoleon dissolved the Batavian Republic and established a monarchy with his brother, Louis Bonaparte, on the throne as King of the Netherlands. Louis was removed from power by Napoleon in 1810, and the country was ruled directly from France until its liberation in 1813. The following year, the independent Netherlands signed the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 with Britain. All the colonies Britain had seized were returned to the Netherlands, with the exception of the Dutch Cape Colony, Dutch Ceylon, and part of Dutch Guyana.[citation needed]

Post-Napoleonic era (1815–1945)

 
Expansion of the Dutch East Indies in the Indonesian Archipelago
 
Map of the Dutch colonial possessions around 1840. Included are the Dutch East Indies, Curaçao and Dependencies, Suriname, and the Dutch Gold Coast.

After Napoleon's defeat in 1815, Europe's borders were redrawn at the Congress of Vienna. For the first time since the declaration of independence from Spain in 1581, the Dutch were reunited with the Southern Netherlands in a constitutional monarchy, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. The union lasted just 15 years. In 1830, a revolution in the southern half of the country led to the de facto independence of the new state of Belgium.[citation needed]

The bankrupt Dutch East India Company was liquidated on 1 January 1800,[64] and its territorial possessions were nationalized as the Dutch East Indies. Anglo-Dutch rivalry in Southeast Asia continued to fester over the port of Singapore, which had been ceded to the British East India Company in 1819 by the sultan of Johore. The Dutch claimed that a treaty signed with the sultan's predecessor the year earlier had granted them control of the region. However, the impossibility of removing the British from Singapore, which was becoming an increasingly important centre of trade, became apparent to the Dutch, and the disagreement was resolved with the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824. Under its terms, the Netherlands ceded Malacca and their bases in India to the British, and recognized the British claim to Singapore. In return, the British handed over Bencoolen and agreed not to sign treaties with rulers in the "islands south of the Straits of Singapore". Thus the archipelago was divided into two spheres of influence: a British one, on the Malay Peninsula, and a Dutch one in the East Indies.[65]

 
Logo of the VOC

For most of the Dutch East Indies history, and that of the VOC before it, Dutch control over their territories was often tenuous, but was expanded over the course of the 19th century. Only in the early 20th century did Dutch dominance extend to what was to become the boundaries of modern-day Indonesia. Although highly populated and agriculturally productive Java was under Dutch domination for most of the 350 years of the combined VOC and Dutch East Indies era, many areas remained independent for much of this time including Aceh, Lombok, Bali, and Borneo.[66]

In 1871, all of the Dutch possessions on the Dutch Gold Coast were sold to Britain. The Dutch West India Company was abolished in 1791, and its colonies in Suriname and the Caribbean brought under the direct rule of the state.[67] The economies of the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean had been based on the smuggling of goods and slaves into Spanish America, but with the end of the slave trade in 1814 and the independence of the new nations of South and Central America from Spain, profitability rapidly declined. Dutch traders moved en masse from the islands to the United States or Latin America, leaving behind small populations with little income and which required subsidies from the Dutch government. The Antilles were combined under one administration with Suriname from 1828 to 1845.[citation needed]

Slavery was not abolished in the Dutch Caribbean colonies until 1863, long after those of Britain and France, though by this time only 6,500 slaves remained. In Suriname, slave holders demanded compensation from the Dutch government for freeing slaves, whilst in Sint Maarten, abolition of slavery in the French half in 1848 led slaves in the Dutch half to take their own freedom.[68] In Suriname, after the abolition of slavery, Chinese workers were encouraged to immigrate as indentured labourers,[69] as were Javanese, between 1890 and 1939.[70]

Decolonization (1942–1975)

Indonesia

 
Sukarno, leader of the Indonesian independence movement

In January 1942, Japan invaded the Netherlands East Indies.[71] The Dutch surrendered two months later in Java, with Indonesians initially welcoming the Japanese as liberators.[72] The subsequent Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies during the remainder of World War II saw the fundamental dismantling of the Dutch colonial state's economic, political and social structures, replacing it with a Japanese regime.[73] In the decades before the war, the Dutch had been overwhelmingly successful in suppressing the small nationalist movement in Indonesia such that the Japanese occupation proved fundamental for Indonesian independence.[73] However, the Indonesian Communist Party founded by Dutch socialist Henk Sneevliet in 1914, popular also with Dutch workers and sailors at the time, was in strategic alliance with Sarekat Islam (q.v.) as early as 1917 until the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence and was particularly important in the fight against Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies in the Second World War. The Japanese encouraged and backed Indonesian nationalism in which new indigenous institutions were created and nationalist leaders such as Sukarno were promoted. The internment of all Dutch citizens meant that Indonesians filled many leadership and administrative positions, although the top positions were still held by the Japanese.[73]

Two days after the Japanese surrender in August 1945, Sukarno and fellow nationalist leader Hatta unilaterally declared Indonesian independence. A four and a half-year struggle followed as the Dutch tried to re-establish their colony. Dutch forces eventually re-occupied most of the colonial territory and a guerrilla struggle ensued. The majority of Indonesians, and – ultimately – international opinion, favored independence, and in December 1949, the Netherlands formally recognized Indonesian sovereignty. Under the terms of the 1949 agreement, Western New Guinea remained under the auspices of the Dutch as Netherlands New Guinea, and its dispute will be resolved by a year. The new Indonesian government under President Sukarno pressured for the territory to come under Indonesian control as Indonesian nationalists initially intended. Following United States pressure, the Netherlands transferred it to Indonesia under the 1962 New York Agreement.[citation needed]

 
Dutch colonists in Suriname, 1920. Most Europeans left after independence in 1975.

Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles

In 1954, under the "Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands", the Netherlands, Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles (at the time including Aruba) became a composite state, known as the "Tripartite Kingdom of the Netherlands". The former colonies were granted autonomy, save for certain matters including defense, foreign affairs and citizenship, which were the responsibility of the Realm. In 1969, unrest in Curaçao led to Dutch marines being sent to quell rioting. In 1973, negotiations started in Suriname for independence, and full independence was granted in 1975, with 60,000 emigrants taking the opportunity of moving to the Netherlands. In 1986, Aruba was allowed to secede from the Netherlands Antilles federation, and was pressured by the Netherlands to move to independence within ten years. However, in 1994, it was agreed that its status as a Realm in its own right could continue.[74]

On 10 October 2010, the Netherlands Antilles were dissolved. Effective on that date, Curaçao and Sint Maarten acceded to the same country status within the Kingdom that Aruba already enjoyed. The islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba were granted a status similar to Dutch municipalities, and are now sometimes referred to as the Caribbean Netherlands.[citation needed]

Legacy

 
Contemporary countries and federated states which were significantly colonised by the Dutch. In the Netherlands, these countries are sometimes known as verwantschapslanden (kindred countries).

Generally, the Dutch do not celebrate their imperial past, and anti-colonial sentiments have prevailed since Jacob Haafner's 1807 treatise.[75] Subsequently, colonial history is not featured prominently in Dutch schoolbooks. This perspective on their imperial past has only recently started to shift.[76][77]

Dutch diaspora

Main article: Dutch diaspora

In some Dutch colonies, there are major ethnic groups of Dutch ancestry descending from emigrated Dutch settlers. In South Africa, the Boers and Cape Dutch are collectively known as the Afrikaners. The Burgher people of Sri Lanka and the Indo people of Indonesia as well as the Creoles of Suriname are mixed race people of Dutch descent.[citation needed]

In the U.S., there have been three American presidents of Dutch descent: Martin Van Buren, the first president who was not of British descent, and whose first language was Dutch, the 26th president Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president, elected to four terms in office (1933 to 1945) and the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms.[citation needed]

 
Boer Voortrekkers in South Africa
 
Dutch family in Java, 1902

Dutch language

Dutch in Southeast Asia

Despite the Dutch presence in Indonesia for almost 350 years, the Dutch language has no official status[78] and the small minority that can speak the language fluently are either educated members of the oldest generation, or employed in the legal profession,[79] as some legal codes are still only available in Dutch.[80] The Indonesian language inherited many words from Dutch, both in words for everyday life, and as well in scientific or technological terminology.[81] One scholar argues that 20% of Indonesian words can be traced back to Dutch words.[82]

Dutch in South Asia

The century and half of Dutch rule in Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) and southern India left few to no traces of the Dutch language.[83]

Dutch in the Americas

In Suriname, Dutch is the official language.[84] 82% of the population can speak Dutch fluently[85][c] In Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, Dutch is the official language but a first language for only 7–8% of the population;[86][87] though most of the population is fluent in Dutch, which is generally the language of education.[88]

The population of the three northern Antilles, Sint Maarten, Saba, and Sint Eustatius, is predominantly English-speaking.[89][90][91][92]

In New Jersey, an extinct dialect of Dutch, Jersey Dutch, was spoken by descendants of 17th-century Dutch settlers in Bergen and Passaic counties, was noted to still be spoken as late as 1921.[93] U.S. President Martin Van Buren, raised in a Dutch-speaking enclave in New York, had Dutch as his native language.[94]

Dutch in Africa

The greatest linguistic legacy of the Netherlands was in its colony in South Africa, which attracted large numbers of Dutch farmer (in Dutch, Boer) settlers, who spoke a simplified form of Dutch called Afrikaans, which is largely mutually intelligible with Dutch. After the colony passed into British hands, the settlers spread into the hinterland, taking their language with them. As of 2005, there were 10 million people for whom Afrikaans is either a primary and secondary language, compared with over 22 million speakers of Dutch.[95][96][needs update]

Other creole languages with Dutch linguistic roots are Papiamento still spoken in Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, and Sint Eustatius; Saramaccan and Sranan Tongo still spoken in Suriname; Berbice an extinct language in Guyana; Pecok spoken but in danger of extinction in Indonesia and the Netherlands; Albany Dutch spoken but in danger of extinction in the U.S.[citation needed]

Extinct Dutch-based creole languages include: Skepi (Guyana); Negerhollands (aka "Negro Dutch"), Jersey Dutch and Mohawk Dutch (U.S.), and Javindo (Java).[citation needed]

Placenames

For a more comprehensive list, see List of place names of Dutch origin.
See also: List of place names of Dutch origin in Australia
 
New Amsterdam as it appeared in 1664. Under British rule it became known as New York.

Some towns of New York and areas of New York City, once part of the colony of New Netherland have names of Dutch origin, such as Brooklyn (after Breukelen), Flushing (after Vlissingen), the Bowery (after Bouwerij, construction site), Harlem (after Haarlem), Coney Island (from Conyne Eylandt, modern Dutch spelling Konijneneiland: Rabbit island) and Staten Island (meaning "Island of the States"). The last Director-General of the colony of New Netherland, Pieter Stuyvesant, has bequeathed his name to a street, a neighborhood and a few schools in New York City, and the town of Stuyvesant. Many of the towns and cities along the Hudson in upstate New York have placenames with Dutch origins (for example Yonkers, Hoboken, Haverstraw, Claverack, Staatsburg, Catskill, Kinderhook, Coeymans, Rensselaer, Watervliet). Nassau County, one of the four that make up Long Island, is also of Dutch origin. The Schuylkill river that flows into the Delaware at Philadelphia is also a Dutch name meaning hidden or skulking river.[citation needed]

Many towns and cities in Suriname share names with cities in the Netherlands, such as Alkmaar and Groningen. The capital of Curaçao is named Willemstad and the capitals of both Saint Eustatius and Aruba are named Oranjestad. The first is named after the Dutch Prince Willem II van Oranje-Nassau (William of Orange-Nassau) and the two others after the first part of the current Dutch royal dynasty.[citation needed]

Many of South Africa's major cities have Dutch names i.e. Johannesburg, Kaapstad, Vereeniging, Bloemfontein and Vanderbijlpark.[citation needed]

The country name New Zealand originated with Dutch cartographers, who called the islands Nova Zeelandia, after the Dutch province of Zeeland.[97] British explorer James Cook subsequently anglicized the name to New Zealand.[d]

The Australian island state Tasmania is named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who made the first reported European sighting of the island on 24 November 1642. He first named the island Anthony van Diemen's Land after his sponsor Anthony van Diemen, the Governor of the Dutch East Indies. The name was later shortened to Van Diemen's Land by the British. It was officially renamed in honor of its first European discoverer on 1 January 1856.[99] Arnhem Land is named after the Dutch ship named Arnhem. The captain of the Arnhem (Willem van Coolsteerdt) also named the large island, east of Arnhem Groote Eylandt, in modern Dutch spelling Groot Eiland: Large Island.

 
The Stadthuys in Malacca, Malaysia, believed to be the oldest Dutch building in Asia[100]

Architecture

 
The Stadhuis of Batavia, said to be modelled after the Dam Palace itself.
 
Christian cross, altar, pulpit, and organ in the Dutch Reformed Church in Vosburg, South Africa.
 
Gedung Sate, an early 20th century colonial building which incorporates modern Western neo-classical style with indigenous elements in Bandung, Indonesia.

In the Surinamese capital of Paramaribo, the Dutch Fort Zeelandia still stands today. The city itself also have retained most of its old street layout and architecture, which is part of the world's UNESCO heritage. In the centre of Malacca, Malaysia, the Stadthuys Building and Christ Church still stand as a reminder of Dutch occupation. There are still archaeological remains of Fort Goede Hoop (modern Hartford, Connecticut) and Fort Orange (modern Albany, New York).[101]

Dutch architecture is easy to see in Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, and Saint Eustatius. The Dutch style buildings are especially visible in Willemstad, with its steeply pitched gables, large windows and soaring finials.[102]

Dutch architecture can also be found in Sri Lanka, especially in Galle where the Dutch fortification and canal have been retained intact, even to an extent the former tropical Villas of the VOC officials. Some of the most prominent example of these architecture is the former governor's mansion in Galle, currently known as Amangalla Hotel and the Old Dutch Reformed Church. In the capital Colombo, many of the Dutch and Portuguese architecture around The Fort have been demolished during the British period, few of the remaining include Old Colombo Dutch Hospital and Wolvendaal Church.[citation needed]

During the period of Dutch colonisation in South Africa, a distinctive type of architecture, known as Cape Dutch architecture, was developed. These style of architecture can be found in historical towns such as Stellenbosch, Swellendam, Tulbagh, and Graaff-Reinet. In the former Dutch capital of Cape Town, nearly nothing from the VOC era have survived except the Castle of Good Hope.[citation needed]

Although the Dutch already started erecting buildings shortly after they arrived on the shores of Batavia, most Dutch-built constructions still standing today in Indonesia stem from the 19th and 20th centuries. Forts from the colonial era, used for defense purposes, still line a number of major coastal cities across the archipelago. The largest number of surviving Dutch buildings can be found on Java and Sumatra, particularly in cities such as Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, Cirebon, Pasuruan, Bukittinggi, Sawahlunto, Medan, Padang, and Malang. There are also significant examples of 17–19th century Dutch architecture around Banda Neira, Nusa Laut, and Saparua, the former main spices islands, which due to limited economic development have retained many of its colonial elements. Another prominent example of Dutch colonial architecture is Fort Rotterdam in Makassar. The earlier Dutch construction mostly replicate the architecture style in the Homeland (such as Toko Merah). However these buildings were unsuitable to tropical climate and expensive to maintain. And as a result the Dutch officials begun to adapt to the tropical condition by applying native elements such as wide-open veranda, ventilation and indigenous high pitch roofing into their villas. "In the beginning (of the Dutch presence), Dutch construction on Java was based on colonial architecture which was modified according to the tropical and local cultural conditions," Indonesian art and design professor Pamudji Suptandar wrote.[103] This was dubbed arsitektur Indis (Indies architecture), which combines the existing traditional Hindu-Javanese style with European forms.[104]

Many public buildings still standing and in use in Jakarta, such as the presidential palace, the finance ministry and the performing arts theater, were built in the 19th century in the classicist style. At the turn of the 20th century and partially due to the Dutch Ethical Policy, the number of Dutch people migrating to the colony grew with economic expansion. The increasing number of middle class population led to the development of Garden Suburbs in major city across the Indies, many of the houses were built in various style ranging from the Indies style, Neo-Renaissance to modern Art Deco. Some examples of these residential district include Menteng in Jakarta, Darmo in Surabaya, Polonia in Medan, Kotabaru in Yogyakarta, New Candi in Semarang and as well as most of North Bandung.[105] Indonesia also became an experimental ground for Dutch Art Deco architectural movement such as Nieuwe Zakelijkheid, De Stijl, Nieuw Indische and Amsterdam School. Several famous architect such as Wolff Schoemaker and Henri Maclaine Pont also made an attempt to modernize indigenous architecture, resulting several unique design such as Pohsarang Church and Bandung Institute of Technology. The largest stock of these Art Deco building can be found in the city of Bandung, which "architecturally" can considered the most European city in Indonesia.[citation needed]

Since Indonesia's independence, few governments have shown interest in the conservation of historical buildings. Many architecturally grand buildings have been torn down in the past decades to erect shopping centres or office buildings e.g. Hotel des Indes (Batavia), Harmony Society, Batavia. Presently, however, more Indonesians have become aware of the value of preserving their old buildings.[citation needed]

"A decade ago, most people thought I was crazy when they learned of my efforts to save the old part of Jakarta. A few years later, the negative voices started to disappear, and now many people are starting to think with me: how are we going to save our city. In the past using the negative sentiment towards the colonial era was often used as an excuse to disregard protests against the demolition of historical buildings. An increasing number of people now see the old colonial buildings as part of their city's overall heritage rather than focusing on its colonial aspect.", leading Indonesian architect and conservationist Budi Lim said.[106]

Infrastructure

 
The Great Post Road (Grote Postweg), spanning West to East Java

Beyond Indonesia's art deco architecture also much of the country's rail and road infrastructure as well as its major cities were built during the colonial period.[107][108] Many of Indonesia's main cities were mere rural townships before colonial industrialization and urban development.[109] Examples on Java include the capital Jakarta and Bandung, outside Java examples include Ambon and Menado city. Most main railroads and rail stations on Java as well as the main road, called Daendels Great Post Road (Dutch: Grote Postweg)[110] after the Governor General commissioning the work, connecting west to east Java were also built during the Dutch East Indies era.[citation needed]

Between 1800 and 1950, Dutch engineers created an infrastructure including 67,000 kilometers (42,000 mi) of roads, 7,500 kilometers (4,700 mi) of railways, many large bridges, modern irrigation systems covering 1.4 million hectares (5,400 sq mi) of rice fields, several international harbors, and 140 public drinking water systems. These Dutch constructed public works became the material base of the colonial and postcolonial Indonesian state.[111]

Agriculture

 
Dutch plantation in Mughal Bengal, 1665

Crops such like coffee, tea, cocoa, tobacco and rubber were all introduced by the Dutch. The Dutch were the first to start the spread of the coffee plant in Central and South America, and by the early 19th century Java was the third largest producer in the world.[112] In 1778, the Dutch brought cacao from the Philippines to Indonesia and commenced mass production.[113] Currently Indonesia is the world's second largest producer of natural rubber, a crop that was introduced by the Dutch in the early 20th century.[114] Tobacco was introduced from the Americas and in 1863, the first plantation was established by the Dutch. Today Indonesia is not only the oldest industrial producer of tobacco, but also the second largest consumer of tobacco.[115]

Scientific discoveries

Java Man was discovered by Eugène Dubois in Indonesia in 1891. The Komodo dragon was firstly described by Peter Ouwens in Indonesia in 1912 after an airplane crash in 1911 and rumors about living dinosaurs on Komodo Island in 1910.[citation needed]

Sport

Suriname

Many Suriname-born football players and Dutch-born football players of Surinamese descent, like Gerald Vanenburg, Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard, Edgar Davids, Clarence Seedorf, Patrick Kluivert, Aron Winter, Georginio Wijnaldum, Virgil van Dijk and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink have turned out to play for the Dutch national team. In 1999, Humphrey Mijnals, who played for both Suriname and the Netherlands, was elected Surinamese footballer of the century.[116] Another famous player is André Kamperveen, who captained Suriname in the 1940s and was the first Surinamese to play professionally in the Netherlands.[citation needed]

Suriname discourages dual citizenship and Surinamese-Dutch players who have picked up a Netherlands passport – which, crucially, offers legal work status in almost any European league – are barred from selection to the national team.[117] In 2014, inspired by the success of teams with dual nationals, especially Algeria, SVB president John Krishnadath submitted a proposal to the national assembly to allow dual citizenship for athletes with the then-goal of reaching the 2018 FIFA World Cup finals.[118] In order to support this project, a team with professional players of Surinamese origin was assembled and played an exhibition match on 26 December 2014 at the Andre Kamperveen Stadion. The project is managed by Nordin Wooter and David Endt, who have set up a presentation and sent invitations to 100 players of Surinamese origin, receiving 85 positive answers. Dean Gorré was named to coach this special selection. FIFA supported the project and granted insurance for the players and clubs despite the match being unofficial.[119] In November 2019, it was announced that a so-called sports passport would allow Dutch professional footballers from the Surinamese diaspora to represent Suriname.[120]

Suriname also has a national korfball team, with korfball being a Dutch sport. Vinkensport is also practised in Suriname, as are popular among the Dutch sports of volleyball and troefcall.[citation needed]

South Africa

Ajax Cape Town were a professional football team named and owned by Ajax Amsterdam, replicating their crest and colours.[citation needed]

The Dutch sport of korfball is administered by the South African Korfball Federation, who manage the South Africa national korfball team. The 2019 IKF World Korfball Championship was held in August 2019 in Durban, South Africa.[citation needed]

Indonesia

The Indonesian football league started around 1930 in the Dutch colonial era. The Indonesian men's team was the first Asian team to qualify for the FIFA World Cup; in 1938 FIFA World Cup they played as the Dutch East Indies.[121] Association football is now the most popular sport in Indonesia, in terms of annual attendance, participation and revenue and it is played on all levels, from children to middle-aged men.[122]

The Indonesian Tennis Association was also founded during Dutch rule in 1935, and has a long history of fielding its national Fed Cup team and Davis Cup team, although the first participation's in the 60s were not till after independence.[citation needed]

As in the Netherlands, volleyball remains a popular sport, with the Indonesian Volleyball Federation organising both the Men's Pro Liga and women's Pro Liga and administrates the men's and women's national teams.[123][124]

The Dutch sport of korfball is also practised, and there is a national korfball team.[citation needed]

Territorial evolution

Main article: Evolution of the Dutch Empire
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    The Dutch Empire in 1630

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    The Dutch Empire in 1650

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    The Dutch Empire in 1674

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    The Dutch Empire in 1700

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    The Dutch Empire in 1750[citation needed]

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    The Dutch Empire in 1795[citation needed]

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    The Dutch Empire in 1830

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    The Dutch Empire prior to World War II

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    The Dutch Empire in 1960

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    The Dutch Empire in 1975

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Controversy exists as to precise the origins of the Eighty Years' War.
  2. ^ Reproduced from Boxer (1965), p.101.
  3. ^ First language or "mother tongue", of 58% of the population, second language for 24%,
  4. ^ The first European name for New Zealand was Staten Landt, the name given to it by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who in 1642 became the first European to see the islands. Tasman assumed it was part of a southern continent connected with land discovered in 1615 off the southern tip of South America by Jacob Le Maire, which had been named Staten Landt, meaning "Land of the (Dutch) States-General".[98]

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Further reading

  • Andeweg, Rudy B.; Galen A. Irwin (2005). Governance and Politics of the Netherlands (2nd ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-3529-7.
  • Boxer, C. R. (1957). The Dutch in Brazil, 1624–1654. Oxford: Clarendon. OCLC 752668765.
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  • Corn, Charles (1998). The Scents of Eden: A History of the Spice Trade. Kodansha. ISBN 1-56836-249-8.
  • Dewulf, J. (Spring 2011). "The Many Meanings of Freedom: The Debate on the Legitimacy of Colonialism in the Dutch Resistance, 1940–1949". Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 12 (1). doi:10.1353/cch.2011.0002. S2CID 162354782.
  • Elphick, Richard; Hermann Giliomee (1989). The Shaping of South African Society, 1652–1840 (2nd ed.). Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman. ISBN 0-8195-6211-4.
  • Gaastra, Femme S. (2003). The Dutch East India Company: Expansion and Decline. Zutphen, Netherlands: Walburg. ISBN 978-90-5730-241-1.
  • Klooster, Wim. The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (2016)
  • Klooster, Wim, and Gert Oostindie. Realm between Empires: The Second Dutch Atlantic, 1680-1815 (Cornell UP, 2018) 348 pp. online review
  • Koekkoek, René, Anne-Isabelle Richard, and Arthur Weststeijn. "Visions of Dutch Empire: Towards a Long-Term Global Perspective." Bijdragen en Mededelingen Betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden 132.2 (2017): 79–96. online
  • Legêne, Susan. "The European character of the intellectual history of Dutch empire." BMGN-Low Countries Historical Review 132.2 (2017). online
  • Noorlander, Danny L. Heaven’s Wrath: The Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World (Cornell UP, 2019).
  • Noorlander, D. L. "The Dutch Atlantic world, 1585–1815: Recent themes and developments in the field." History Compass (2020): e12625.
  • Panikkar, K. M. (1953). Asia and Western dominance, 1498–1945, by K.M. Panikkar. London: G. Allen and Unwin.
  • Poddar, Prem, and Lars Jensen, eds., A historical companion to postcolonial literatures: Continental Europe and Its Empires (Edinburgh UP, 2008), "Netherlands and its colonies" pp 314–401. excerpt also entire text online
  • Postma, Johannes M. (1990). The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1815. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-36585-6.
  • Wesseling, H.L. (1997). Imperialism and Colonialism: Essays on the History of Colonialism. London: Greewood. ISBN 978-0-313-30431-6.

External links

  • (in Dutch) De VOCsite
  • Dutch and Portuguese Colonial History
  • (in Dutch) VOC Kenniscentrum
  • Dutch East Indies Documentary on YouTube
  • The Atlas of Mutual Heritage database, showing the Dutch empire 1600–1800.

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A request that this article title be changed to Dutch colonial empire is under discussion Please do not move this article until the discussion is closed This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Dutch Empire news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message The Dutch Empire or the Dutch colonial empire Dutch Nederlandse koloniale rijk comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies mainly the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company and subsequently by the Dutch Republic 1581 1795 and by the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands after 1815 1 It was initially a trade based system which derived most of its influence from merchant enterprise and from Dutch control of international maritime shipping routes through strategically placed outposts rather than from expansive territorial ventures 2 1 The Dutch were among the earliest empire builders of Europe following Spain and Portugal and one of the wealthiest nations of that time citation needed Dutch colonial empireNederlandse koloniale rijkFlag Coat of armsThe Dutch colonial empire With a few notable exceptions the majority of the Dutch colonial empire s overseas holdings consisted of coastal forts factories and port settlements with varying degrees of incorporation of their hinterlands and surrounding regions 2 Dutch chartered companies often dictated that their possessions be kept as confined as possible in order to avoid unnecessary expense 3 and while some such as the Dutch Cape Colony and Dutch East Indies expanded anyway due to the pressure of independent minded Dutch colonists others remained undeveloped isolated trading centres dependent on an indigenous host nation 2 This reflected the primary purpose of the Dutch colonial empire commercial exchange as opposed to sovereignty over homogeneous landmasses 2 The imperial ambitions of the Dutch were bolstered by the strength of their existing shipping industry as well as the key role they played in the expansion of maritime trade between Europe and the Orient 4 Because small European trading companies often lacked the capital or the manpower for large scale operations the States General chartered larger organisations the Dutch West India Company and the Dutch East India Company in the early seventeenth century 4 These were considered the largest and most extensive maritime trading companies at the time and once held a virtual monopoly on strategic European shipping routes westward through the Southern Hemisphere around South America through the Strait of Magellan and eastward around Africa past the Cape of Good Hope 4 The companies domination of global commerce contributed greatly to a commercial revolution and a cultural flowering in the Netherlands of the 17th century known as the Dutch Golden Age 5 In their search for new trade passages between Asia and Europe Dutch navigators explored and charted distant regions such as Australia New Zealand Tasmania and parts of the eastern coast of North America 6 During the period of proto industrialization the empire received 50 of textiles and 80 of silks import from the India s Mughal Empire chiefly from its most developed region known as Bengal Subah 7 8 9 10 In the 18th century the Dutch colonial empire began to decline as a result of the Fourth Anglo Dutch War of 1780 1784 in which the Dutch Republic lost a number of its colonial possessions and trade monopolies to the British Empire along with the conquest of the Mughal Bengal at the Battle of Plassey by the British East India Company 11 12 13 Nevertheless major portions of the empire survived until the advent of global decolonisation following World War II namely the East Indies and Dutch Guiana 14 Three former colonial territories in the West Indies islands around the Caribbean Sea Aruba Curacao and Sint Maarten remain as constituent countries represented within the Kingdom of the Netherlands 14 Contents 1 Former Dutch colonial possessions 2 History 2 1 Origins 1590s 1602 2 2 Establishment of the Dutch East India Company VOC 1602 1609 2 3 Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands 1609 1621 2 4 Iberian Dutch conflicts until 1661 2 5 Dutch colonisation of Asia 2 6 Dutch colonisation of the Americas 2 7 Dutch colonisation of Southern Africa 2 8 Rivalry with Great Britain and France 1652 1795 2 9 Napoleonic era 1795 1815 2 10 Post Napoleonic era 1815 1945 2 11 Decolonization 1942 1975 2 11 1 Indonesia 2 11 2 Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles 3 Legacy 3 1 Dutch diaspora 3 2 Dutch language 3 2 1 Dutch in Southeast Asia 3 2 2 Dutch in South Asia 3 2 3 Dutch in the Americas 3 2 4 Dutch in Africa 3 3 Placenames 3 4 Architecture 3 5 Infrastructure 3 6 Agriculture 3 7 Scientific discoveries 3 8 Sport 3 8 1 Suriname 3 8 2 South Africa 3 8 3 Indonesia 4 Territorial evolution 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 Bibliography 9 Further reading 10 External linksFormer Dutch colonial possessions EditThis list does not include several former trading posts stationed by Dutch such as Dejima in Japan Dutch East Indies with company rule 1603 1949 and Dutch New Guinea until 1962 Dutch India 1605 1825 Dutch Gold Coast 1612 1872 New Netherlands 1614 1667 1673 1674 Dutch Guianas 1616 1975 Dutch Formosa 1624 1662 and Keelung Fort Noord Holland 1663 1668 Dutch Virgin Islands 1625 1680 Dutch Bengal 1627 1825 Dutch Brazil 1630 1654 Dutch Mauritius 1638 1710 Dutch Ceylon 1640 1796 Dutch Malacca 1641 1795 1818 1825 Dutch Cape Colony 1652 1806 Dutch Malabar 1665 1795 Dutch Surinam 1667 1954 New Holland Acadia 1674 1678 History EditOrigins 1590s 1602 Edit Main article Voorcompagnie In the 1560s the Eighty Years War broke out in the Habsburg Netherlands a A coalition of rebel provinces united in the Union of Utrecht declared independence from the Spanish Empire with the 1581 Act of Abjuration in 1588 establishing the de facto independent northern Dutch Republic alias the United Provinces whose sovereignty was recognised by the Treaty of Antwerp 1609 The eight decades of war came at a massive human cost with an estimated 600 000 to 700 000 victims of which 350 000 to 400 000 were civilians killed by disease and what would later be considered war crimes 15 The war was largely fought on the European continent but war was also conducted against Phillip II s overseas territories including Spanish colonies and the Portuguese metropoles colonies trading posts and forts belonging at that time to the King of Spain and Portugal citation needed The port of Lisbon in Portugal had since 1517 been the main European market for products from India drawing merchants from across Europe to purchase exotic commodities But as a result of Portugal s incorporation in the Iberian Union with Spain by Philip II in 1580 all Portuguese territories were thereafter Spanish Habsburg branch territory and thus all Portuguese markets were closed to the United Provinces Thus in 1595 the Dutch decided to set sail on their own to acquire products for themselves making use of the secret knowledge of the Portuguese trade routes which Cornelis de Houtman had managed to acquire in Lisbon 16 The coastal provinces of Holland and Zeeland had been important hubs of the European maritime trade network for centuries prior to Spanish rule Their geographical location provided convenient access to the markets of France Scotland Germany England and the Baltic 17 By the 1580s the Eighty Years War led many financiers and traders to emigrate from Antwerp a major city in Brabant and then one of Europe s most important commercial centres to Dutch cities particularly Amsterdam 18 which became Europe s foremost centre for shipping banking and insurance 19 Efficient access to capital enabled the Dutch in the 1580s to extend their trade routes beyond northern Europe to new markets in the Mediterranean and the Levant In the 1590s Dutch ships began to trade with Brazil and the Dutch Gold Coast of Africa towards the Indian Ocean and the source of the lucrative spice trade 20 This brought the Dutch into direct competition with Portugal which had dominated these trade routes for several decades and had established colonial outposts on the coasts of Brazil Africa and the Indian Ocean to facilitate them The rivalry with Portugal however was not entirely economic from 1580 after the death of the King of Portugal Sebastian I and much of the Portuguese nobility in the Battle of Alcacer Quibir the Portuguese crown had been joined to that of Spain in an Iberian Union under the heir of Emperor Charles V Philip II of Spain By attacking Portuguese overseas possessions the Dutch forced Spain to divert financial and military resources away from its attempt to quell Dutch independence 21 Thus began the several decade long Dutch Portuguese War citation needed In the 1590s the voorcompagnieen pioneer companies emerged which were given express instructions to focus on trade and engage in violence only in self defense 22 In 1594 the Compagnie van Verre Company of Far Lands was founded in Amsterdam with the aim of sending two fleets to the spice islands of Maluku 23 The first fleet sailed in 1596 and returned in 1597 with a cargo of pepper which more than covered the costs of the voyage The second voyage 1598 1599 returned its investors a 400 profit 24 The success of these voyages led to the founding of a number of companies competing for the trade The competition was counterproductive to the companies interests as it threatened to drive up the price of spices at their source in Indonesia whilst driving them down in Europe 24 22 Simultaneously some Dutch company ships in the 1590s had been starting to raid and plunder Spanish and Portuguese vessels or their Asian allies in order to seize their spices instead a phenomenon which had to be rationalised and theoretically justified as a legitimate act of war against enemy ships 22 Establishment of the Dutch East India Company VOC 1602 1609 Edit See also Evolution of the Dutch Empire The present deputies of the East India Company are seriously admonished to look into and give orders to the effect that the ships which are already equipped or afterwards shall be equipped to sail to the East Indies can have charge and instruction to damage the enemies and inflict harm on their persons ships and goods by all means possible so that they may with reputation not only continue their trade but also expand it and make it grow otherwise by neglecting this they will certainly lose it For this was the principal reason why the Gentlemen States General have undertaken the union of the Companies and awarded them a charter and authorisation to inflict damage on the enemies States General resolution 1 November 1603 25 As a result of the problems caused by inter company rivalry the Dutch East India Company Dutch Verenigde Oost Indische Compagnie VOC was founded in 1602 The charter awarded to the Company by the States General granted it sole rights for an initial period of 21 years to Dutch trade and navigation east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of the Straits of Magellan The directors of the company the Heeren XVII were given the legal authority to establish fortresses and strongholds to sign treaties to enlist both an army and a navy and to wage defensive war 26 The company itself was founded as a joint stock company similarly to its English rival that had been founded two years earlier the English East India Company citation needed Shortly after the VOC was founded the problem of justifying attacks on Spanish and Portuguese ships became more acute when in February 1603 the Portuguese carrack Santa Catarina was captured off the coast of Singapore by three VOC ships under the command of Jacob van Heemskerck 22 When Heemskerck returned to Amsterdam in 1604 with the enormous booty from the Santa Catarina this caused a major controversy in the Dutch Republic about the legality utility and moral permissibility of this act 22 As a result in September 1604 jurist Hugo Grotius wrote a treatise titled De Jure Praedae Commentarius Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty later published in 1609 as Mare Liberum sive de jure quod Batavis competit ad Indicana commercia dissertatio The Freedom of the Seas Or The Right Which Belongs to the Dutch to Take Part in the East Indian Trade in which the act of aggression was justified 22 In the meantime the States General had already passed a resolution on 1 November 1603 authorising VOC ships to damage the enemies and inflict harm on their persons ships and goods by all means possible so that they may with reputation not only continue their trade but also expand it and make it grow 25 This was a critical event according to several historical studies 25 with Borschberg 2013 stating it marked a major shift in policy of the VOC and set the cornerstone for the establishment of the Dutch colonial empire in Asia 27 because the resolution transformed the VOC into an instrument of war and colonial expansion that was directed against the Iberian powers in Asia and later of course also against local Asian rulers and polities 27 Pursuing their quest for alternative routes to Asia for trade the Dutch were disrupting the Spanish Portuguese trade and they eventually ranged as far afield as the Philippines The Dutch sought to dominate the commercial sea trade in Southeast Asia going so far in pursuit of this goal as to engage in what other nations and powers considered to be little more than piratical activities citation needed During the negotiations for and implementation of the Twelve Years Truce in the years 1608 1610 the Dutch sought to secure all sorts of commercially and strategically important positions in Southeast Asia and the VOC rushed to conclude as many contracts as possible with local monarchs and polities in the so called frontline regions the Malay Peninsula particularly Johor Sumatra the Banda Islands the Moluccas Timor and southern India 28 Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands 1609 1621 Edit Dutch map of the Banda Islands dated c 1599 1619 This section is an excerpt from Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands edit The Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands was a process of military conquest from 1609 to 1621 by the Dutch East India Company of the Banda Islands The Dutch having enforced a monopoly on the highly lucrative nutmeg production from the islands were impatient with Bandanese resistance to Dutch instructions that the Bandanese sell only to them The Dutch used the death of a Dutch official as a casus belli for a forcible conquest of the islands The islands became severely depopulated as a result of the massacres and forced deportations by the Dutch The Dutch East India Company which was founded in 1602 as an amalgamation of 12 voorcompagnies had extensive financial interests in maritime Southeast Asia the source of highly profitable spices which were in high demand in Europe A Dutch expedition had already made contact with the islands in 1599 signing several contracts with Bandanese chiefs The profitability of the spices was heightened by the fact that they grew nowhere else on Earth making them extremely valuable to whoever controlled them As the Dutch attempted to form a monopoly over the spices and forbid the Bandanese from selling to any other group they resisted and the Dutch decided to conquer the islands by force With the aid of Japanese mercenaries the Dutch launched several military expeditions against the Bandanese The conquest culminated in the Banda massacre which saw 2 800 Bandanese killed and 1 700 enslaved by the Dutch Along with starvation and constant fighting the Bandanese felt they could not continue to resist the Dutch and negotiated a surrender in 1621 Jan Pieterszoon Coen the official in charge of the fighting expelled the remaining 1 000 Bandanese to Batavia With the Bandanese resistance ended the Dutch secured their valuable monopoly on the spice trade Iberian Dutch conflicts until 1661 Edit Main articles Dutch Portuguese War Dutch Brazil and Groot Desseyn Sao Luis Maranhao Dutch Brazil Olinda Pernambuco Dutch Brazil The Portuguese victory at the Battle of Guararapes ended Dutch presence in Brazil The Dutch attacked most of Portugal s far flung trading network in and around Asia including Ceylon modern Sri Lanka and Goa as well as attacks upon her commercial interests in Japan Africa especially Mina and South America Even though the Portuguese had never been able to capture the entire island of Ceylon they had been able to keep the coastal regions under their control for a considerable time before the coming of the Dutch in war Portugal s South American colony Brazil was partially conquered by both France and the United Provinces citation needed In 1621 the Dutch West India Company WIC was set up and given a 25 year monopoly to those parts of the world not controlled by its East India counterpart the Atlantic the Americas and the west coast of Africa 29 The Dutch also established a trading post in Ayutthaya modern day Thailand during the reign of King Naresuan in 1604 citation needed In the 17th century the Grand Design of the West India Company involved attempting to corner the international trade in sugar by attacking Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Africa seizing both the sugarcane plantations and the slave ports needed to resupply their labour Although weakened by the Iberian Union with Spain whose attention was focused elsewhere the Portuguese were able to fight off the initial assault before the Battle of Matanzas Bay provided the WIC with the funds needed for a successful operation Johan Maurits was appointed governor of New Holland and landed at Recife in January 1637 In a series of successful expeditions he gradually extended the Dutch possessions from Sergipe on the south to Maranhao in the north The WIC also succeeded in conquering Goree Elmina Castle Saint Thomas and Luanda on the west coast of Africa Both regions were also used as bases for Dutch privateers plundering Portuguese and Spanish trade routes The dissolution of the Iberian Union in 1640 and Maurits s recall in 1643 led to increased resistance from the Portuguese colonists who still made up a majority of the Brazilian settlers The Dutch were finally overcome during the 1650s but managed to receive 4 million reis 63 metric tons of gold in exchange for extinguishing their claims over Brazil in the 1661 Treaty of the Hague citation needed Dutch colonisation of Asia Edit Main articles Dutch East Indies Dutch Malacca Dutch Ceylon Dutch India Dutch Formosa and Dutch Bengal Primary Dutch and Portuguese settlements in Asia c 1665 With the exception of Jakarta and Deshima all had been captured by the Dutch East India Company from Portugal 26 The war between Phillip II s possessions and other countries led to a deterioration of the Portuguese Empire as with the loss of Ormuz to England in 1622 but the Dutch Empire was the main beneficiary citation needed The VOC began immediately to prise away the string of coastal fortresses that at the time comprised the Portuguese Empire The settlements were isolated difficult to reinforce if attacked and prone to being picked off one by one but nevertheless the Dutch only enjoyed mixed success in its attempts to do so 24 Amboina was captured from the Portuguese in 1605 but an attack on Malacca the following year narrowly failed in its objective to provide a more strategically located base in the East Indies with favourable monsoon winds 30 The Dutch found what they were looking for in Jakarta conquered by Jan Pieterszoon Coen in 1619 later renamed Batavia after the putative Dutch ancestors the Batavians and which would become the capital of the Dutch East Indies Meanwhile the Dutch continued to drive out the Portuguese from their bases in Asia Malacca finally succumbed in 1641 after a second attempt to capture it Colombo in 1656 Ceylon in 1658 Nagapattinam in 1662 and Cranganore and Cochin in 1662 26 Goa the capital of the Portuguese Empire in the East was unsuccessfully attacked by the Dutch in 1603 and 1610 Whilst the Dutch were unable in four attempts to capture Macau 31 from where Portugal monopolized the lucrative China Japan trade the Tokugawa shogunate s increasing suspicion of the intentions of the Catholic Portuguese led to their expulsion in 1639 Under the subsequent sakoku policy from 1639 till 1854 215 years the Dutch were the only European power allowed to operate in Japan confined in 1639 to Hirado and then from 1641 at Dejima In the mid 17th century the Dutch also explored the western Australian coasts naming many places citation needed Overview of Fort Zeelandia on the island of Formosa 17th century The Dutch colonised Mauritius in 1638 several decades after three ships out of the Dutch Second Fleet sent to the Spice Islands were blown off course in a storm and landed there in 1598 They named it in honour of Prince Maurice of Nassau the Stadtholder of the Netherlands The Dutch found the climate hostile and abandoned the island after several further decades citation needed Batavia built in what is now Jakarta 1682 The Dutch established a colony at Tayouan present day Anping in the south of Taiwan an island then largely dominated by Portuguese traders and known as Formosa and in 1642 the Dutch took northern Formosa from the Spanish by force citation needed The Dutch tried to use military force to make Ming China open up to Dutch trade but the Chinese defeated the Dutch in a war over the Penghu islands from 1623 to 1624 forcing the VOC to abandon Penghu for Taiwan Then Chinese defeated the Dutch again at the Battle of Liaoluo Bay in 1633 32 33 34 35 In 1646 the Dutch tried to capture the Spanish colony in the Philippines Although they had a large force at their disposal they were defeated at the Battles of La Naval de Manila when they attempted to take Manila After this defeat they abandoned their efforts to capture Manila and the Philippines citation needed Between 1602 and 1796 the VOC sent almost a million Europeans to work in the Asia trade 36 The majority died of disease or made their way back to Europe but some of them made the Indies their new home 37 Interaction between the Dutch and native population mainly took place in Sri Lanka and the modern Indonesian Islands Through the centuries there developed a relatively large Dutch speaking population of mixed Dutch and Indonesian descent known as Indos or Dutch Indonesians citation needed Dutch colonisation of the Americas Edit Main article Dutch colonization of the Americas Further information Dutch Brazil Dutch colonisation of the Guianas and Surinam Dutch colony Dutch conquests in the West Indies and Brazil b In the Atlantic the West India Company concentrated on wresting from Portugal its grip on the sugar and slave trade and on opportunistic attacks on the Spanish treasure fleets on their homeward bound voyage 38 Bahia on the north east coast of Brazil was captured in 1624 but only held for a year before it was recaptured by a joint Spanish Portuguese expedition In 1628 Piet Heyn captured the entire Spanish treasure fleet and made off with a vast fortune in precious metals and goods that enabled the Company two years later to pay its shareholders a cash dividend of 70 39 though the Company was to have relatively few other successes against the Spanish 40 In 1630 the Dutch occupied the Portuguese sugar settlement of Pernambuco and over the next few years pushed inland annexing the sugar plantations that surrounded it In order to supply the plantations with the manpower they required a successful expedition was launched from Brazil to capture the Portuguese slaving post of Elmina in 1637 29 and successfully captured the Portuguese settlements in Angola in 1641 41 In 1642 the Dutch captured the Portuguese possession of Axim in Africa By 1650 the West India Company was firmly in control of both the sugar and slave trades and had occupied the Caribbean islands of Sint Maarten Curacao Aruba and Bonaire in order to guarantee access to the islands salt pans 42 Unlike in Asia Dutch successes against the Portuguese in Brazil and Africa were short lived Years of settlement had left large Portuguese communities under the rule of the Dutch who were by nature traders rather than colonisers 43 In 1645 the Portuguese community at Pernambuco rebelled against their Dutch masters 40 and by 1654 the Dutch had been ousted from Brazil 44 In the intervening years a Portuguese expedition had been sent from Brazil to recapture Luanda in Angola expelling the Dutch by 1648 citation needed Reprint of a 1650 map of New Netherland On the north east coast of North America the West India Company took over a settlement that had been established by the Company of New Netherland 1614 1618 at Fort Orange at Albany on the Hudson River 45 relocated from Fort Nassau which had been founded in 1614 The Dutch had been sending ships annually to the Hudson River to trade fur since Henry Hudson s voyage of 1609 46 To protect its precarious position at Albany from the nearby English and French the Company founded the fortified town of New Amsterdam in 1625 at the mouth of the Hudson encouraging settlement of the surrounding areas of Long Island and New Jersey 47 The fur trade ultimately proved impossible for the Company to monopolize due to the massive illegal private trade in furs and the settlement of New Netherland was unprofitable 48 In 1655 the nearby colony of New Sweden on the Delaware River was forcibly absorbed into New Netherland after ships and soldiers were sent to capture it by the Dutch governor Pieter Stuyvesant 49 Since its inception the Dutch East India Company had been in competition with its counterpart the English East India Company founded two years earlier but with a capital base eight times smaller 50 for the same goods and markets in the East In 1619 the rivalry resulted in the Amboyna massacre when several English Company men were executed by agents of the Dutch The event remained a source of English resentment for several decades and indeed was used as a cause celebre as late as the Second Anglo Dutch War in the 1660s nevertheless in the late 1620s the English Company shifted its focus from Indonesia to India 50 In 1643 the Dutch West India Company established a settlement in the ruins of the Spanish settlement of Valdivia in southern Chile The purpose of the expedition was to gain a foothold on the west coast of the Americas an area that was almost entirely under the control of Spain the Pacific Ocean at least most of it to the east of the Philippines being at the time almost a Spanish lake 51 and to extract gold from nearby mines Uncooperative indigenous peoples who had forced the Spanish to leave Valdivia in 1604 contributed to get the expedition to leave after some months of occupation This occupation triggered the return of the Spanish to Valdivia and the building of one of the largest defensive complexes of colonial America 52 53 Dutch colonisation of Southern Africa Edit Main article Dutch Cape Colony View of Table Bay with ships of the Dutch East India Company c 1683 By the middle of the 17th century the Dutch East India Company had overtaken Portugal as the dominant player in the spice and silk trade and in 1652 founded a colony at the Cape of Good Hope on the southern African coast as a victualing station for its ships on the route between Europe and Asia 54 Dutch immigration in the Cape rapidly swelled as prospective colonists were offered generous grants of land and tax exempt status in exchange for producing the food needed to resupply passing ships 55 56 The Cape authorities also imported a number of Europeans of other nationalities namely Germans and French Huguenots as well as thousands of slaves from the East Indies to bolster the local Dutch workforce 55 57 Nevertheless there was a degree of cultural assimilation between the various ethnic groups due to intermarriage and the universal adoption of the Dutch language and cleavages were likelier to occur along social and racial lines 58 The Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope expanded beyond the initial settlement and its borders were formally consolidated as the composite Dutch Cape Colony in 1778 59 At the time the Dutch had subdued the indigenous Khoisan and San peoples in the Cape and seized their traditional territories 59 Dutch military expeditions further east were halted when they encountered the westward expansion of the Xhosa people 59 Hoping to avoid being drawn into a protracted dispute the Dutch government and the Xhosa chieftains agreed to formally demarcate their respective areas of control and refrain from trespassing on each other s borders 59 However the Dutch proved unable to control their own settlers who disregarded the agreement and crossed into Xhosa territory sparking one of Southern Africa s longest colonial conflicts the Xhosa Wars 59 Rivalry with Great Britain and France 1652 1795 Edit In 1651 the English parliament passed the first of the Navigation Acts which excluded Dutch shipping from the lucrative trade between England and its Caribbean colonies and led directly to the outbreak of hostilities between the two countries the following year the first of three Anglo Dutch Wars that would last on and off for two decades and slowly erode Dutch naval power to England s benefit 60 61 In 1661 amidst the Qing conquest of China Ming general Koxinga led a fleet to invade Formosa The Dutch defense led by governor Frederick Coyett held out for nine months However after Koxinga defeated Dutch reinforcements from Java Coyett surrendered Formosa 62 The Dutch would never rule Formosa again citation needed The Second Anglo Dutch War was precipitated in 1664 when English forces moved to capture New Netherland Under the Treaty of Breda 1667 New Netherland was ceded to England in exchange for the English settlements in Suriname which had been conquered by Dutch forces earlier that year Though the Dutch would again take New Netherland in 1673 during the Third Anglo Dutch War it was returned to England the following year thereby ending Dutch rule in continental North America but leaving behind a large Dutch community under English rule that persisted with its language church and customs until the mid 18th century 63 In South America the Dutch seized Cayenne from the French in 1658 and drove off a French attempt to retake it a year later However it was returned to France in 1664 since the colony proved to be unprofitable It was recaptured by the Dutch in 1676 but was returned again a year later this time permanently The Glorious Revolution of 1688 saw the Dutch William of Orange ascend to the throne and win the English Scottish and Irish crowns ending eighty years of rivalry between the Netherlands and England while the rivalry with France remained strong citation needed During the American Revolutionary War Britain declared war on the Netherlands the Fourth Anglo Dutch War in which Britain seized the Dutch colony of Ceylon Under the Peace of Paris 1783 Ceylon was returned to the Netherlands and Negapatnam ceded to Britain citation needed Napoleonic era 1795 1815 Edit Dejima trading post in Japan c 1805 In 1795 the French Revolutionary Army invaded the Dutch Republic and turned the nation into a satellite of France named the Batavian Republic Britain which was at war with France soon moved to occupy Dutch colonies in Asia South Africa and the Caribbean citation needed Under the terms of the Treaty of Amiens signed by Britain and France in 1802 the Cape Colony and the islands of the Dutch West Indies that the British had seized were returned to the Republic Ceylon was not returned to the Dutch and was made a British Crown Colony After the outbreak of hostilities between Britain and France again in 1803 the British retook the Cape Colony The British also invaded and captured the island of Java in 1811 citation needed In 1806 Napoleon dissolved the Batavian Republic and established a monarchy with his brother Louis Bonaparte on the throne as King of the Netherlands Louis was removed from power by Napoleon in 1810 and the country was ruled directly from France until its liberation in 1813 The following year the independent Netherlands signed the Anglo Dutch Treaty of 1814 with Britain All the colonies Britain had seized were returned to the Netherlands with the exception of the Dutch Cape Colony Dutch Ceylon and part of Dutch Guyana citation needed Post Napoleonic era 1815 1945 Edit Expansion of the Dutch East Indies in the Indonesian Archipelago Map of the Dutch colonial possessions around 1840 Included are the Dutch East Indies Curacao and Dependencies Suriname and the Dutch Gold Coast After Napoleon s defeat in 1815 Europe s borders were redrawn at the Congress of Vienna For the first time since the declaration of independence from Spain in 1581 the Dutch were reunited with the Southern Netherlands in a constitutional monarchy the United Kingdom of the Netherlands The union lasted just 15 years In 1830 a revolution in the southern half of the country led to the de facto independence of the new state of Belgium citation needed The bankrupt Dutch East India Company was liquidated on 1 January 1800 64 and its territorial possessions were nationalized as the Dutch East Indies Anglo Dutch rivalry in Southeast Asia continued to fester over the port of Singapore which had been ceded to the British East India Company in 1819 by the sultan of Johore The Dutch claimed that a treaty signed with the sultan s predecessor the year earlier had granted them control of the region However the impossibility of removing the British from Singapore which was becoming an increasingly important centre of trade became apparent to the Dutch and the disagreement was resolved with the Anglo Dutch Treaty of 1824 Under its terms the Netherlands ceded Malacca and their bases in India to the British and recognized the British claim to Singapore In return the British handed over Bencoolen and agreed not to sign treaties with rulers in the islands south of the Straits of Singapore Thus the archipelago was divided into two spheres of influence a British one on the Malay Peninsula and a Dutch one in the East Indies 65 Logo of the VOC For most of the Dutch East Indies history and that of the VOC before it Dutch control over their territories was often tenuous but was expanded over the course of the 19th century Only in the early 20th century did Dutch dominance extend to what was to become the boundaries of modern day Indonesia Although highly populated and agriculturally productive Java was under Dutch domination for most of the 350 years of the combined VOC and Dutch East Indies era many areas remained independent for much of this time including Aceh Lombok Bali and Borneo 66 In 1871 all of the Dutch possessions on the Dutch Gold Coast were sold to Britain The Dutch West India Company was abolished in 1791 and its colonies in Suriname and the Caribbean brought under the direct rule of the state 67 The economies of the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean had been based on the smuggling of goods and slaves into Spanish America but with the end of the slave trade in 1814 and the independence of the new nations of South and Central America from Spain profitability rapidly declined Dutch traders moved en masse from the islands to the United States or Latin America leaving behind small populations with little income and which required subsidies from the Dutch government The Antilles were combined under one administration with Suriname from 1828 to 1845 citation needed Slavery was not abolished in the Dutch Caribbean colonies until 1863 long after those of Britain and France though by this time only 6 500 slaves remained In Suriname slave holders demanded compensation from the Dutch government for freeing slaves whilst in Sint Maarten abolition of slavery in the French half in 1848 led slaves in the Dutch half to take their own freedom 68 In Suriname after the abolition of slavery Chinese workers were encouraged to immigrate as indentured labourers 69 as were Javanese between 1890 and 1939 70 Decolonization 1942 1975 Edit Indonesia Edit Sukarno leader of the Indonesian independence movement In January 1942 Japan invaded the Netherlands East Indies 71 The Dutch surrendered two months later in Java with Indonesians initially welcoming the Japanese as liberators 72 The subsequent Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies during the remainder of World War II saw the fundamental dismantling of the Dutch colonial state s economic political and social structures replacing it with a Japanese regime 73 In the decades before the war the Dutch had been overwhelmingly successful in suppressing the small nationalist movement in Indonesia such that the Japanese occupation proved fundamental for Indonesian independence 73 However the Indonesian Communist Party founded by Dutch socialist Henk Sneevliet in 1914 popular also with Dutch workers and sailors at the time was in strategic alliance with Sarekat Islam q v as early as 1917 until the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence and was particularly important in the fight against Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies in the Second World War The Japanese encouraged and backed Indonesian nationalism in which new indigenous institutions were created and nationalist leaders such as Sukarno were promoted The internment of all Dutch citizens meant that Indonesians filled many leadership and administrative positions although the top positions were still held by the Japanese 73 Two days after the Japanese surrender in August 1945 Sukarno and fellow nationalist leader Hatta unilaterally declared Indonesian independence A four and a half year struggle followed as the Dutch tried to re establish their colony Dutch forces eventually re occupied most of the colonial territory and a guerrilla struggle ensued The majority of Indonesians and ultimately international opinion favored independence and in December 1949 the Netherlands formally recognized Indonesian sovereignty Under the terms of the 1949 agreement Western New Guinea remained under the auspices of the Dutch as Netherlands New Guinea and its dispute will be resolved by a year The new Indonesian government under President Sukarno pressured for the territory to come under Indonesian control as Indonesian nationalists initially intended Following United States pressure the Netherlands transferred it to Indonesia under the 1962 New York Agreement citation needed Dutch colonists in Suriname 1920 Most Europeans left after independence in 1975 Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles Edit In 1954 under the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands the Netherlands Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles at the time including Aruba became a composite state known as the Tripartite Kingdom of the Netherlands The former colonies were granted autonomy save for certain matters including defense foreign affairs and citizenship which were the responsibility of the Realm In 1969 unrest in Curacao led to Dutch marines being sent to quell rioting In 1973 negotiations started in Suriname for independence and full independence was granted in 1975 with 60 000 emigrants taking the opportunity of moving to the Netherlands In 1986 Aruba was allowed to secede from the Netherlands Antilles federation and was pressured by the Netherlands to move to independence within ten years However in 1994 it was agreed that its status as a Realm in its own right could continue 74 On 10 October 2010 the Netherlands Antilles were dissolved Effective on that date Curacao and Sint Maarten acceded to the same country status within the Kingdom that Aruba already enjoyed The islands of Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba were granted a status similar to Dutch municipalities and are now sometimes referred to as the Caribbean Netherlands citation needed Legacy Edit Contemporary countries and federated states which were significantly colonised by the Dutch In the Netherlands these countries are sometimes known as verwantschapslanden kindred countries Generally the Dutch do not celebrate their imperial past and anti colonial sentiments have prevailed since Jacob Haafner s 1807 treatise 75 Subsequently colonial history is not featured prominently in Dutch schoolbooks This perspective on their imperial past has only recently started to shift 76 77 Dutch diaspora Edit Main article Dutch diaspora In some Dutch colonies there are major ethnic groups of Dutch ancestry descending from emigrated Dutch settlers In South Africa the Boers and Cape Dutch are collectively known as the Afrikaners The Burgher people of Sri Lanka and the Indo people of Indonesia as well as the Creoles of Suriname are mixed race people of Dutch descent citation needed In the U S there have been three American presidents of Dutch descent Martin Van Buren the first president who was not of British descent and whose first language was Dutch the 26th president Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D Roosevelt the 32nd president elected to four terms in office 1933 to 1945 and the only U S president to have served more than two terms citation needed Boer Voortrekkers in South Africa Dutch family in Java 1902 Dutch language Edit Dutch in Southeast Asia Edit Despite the Dutch presence in Indonesia for almost 350 years the Dutch language has no official status 78 and the small minority that can speak the language fluently are either educated members of the oldest generation or employed in the legal profession 79 as some legal codes are still only available in Dutch 80 The Indonesian language inherited many words from Dutch both in words for everyday life and as well in scientific or technological terminology 81 One scholar argues that 20 of Indonesian words can be traced back to Dutch words 82 Dutch in South Asia Edit The century and half of Dutch rule in Ceylon modern day Sri Lanka and southern India left few to no traces of the Dutch language 83 Dutch in the Americas Edit In Suriname Dutch is the official language 84 82 of the population can speak Dutch fluently 85 c In Aruba Bonaire and Curacao Dutch is the official language but a first language for only 7 8 of the population 86 87 though most of the population is fluent in Dutch which is generally the language of education 88 The population of the three northern Antilles Sint Maarten Saba and Sint Eustatius is predominantly English speaking 89 90 91 92 In New Jersey an extinct dialect of Dutch Jersey Dutch was spoken by descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers in Bergen and Passaic counties was noted to still be spoken as late as 1921 93 U S President Martin Van Buren raised in a Dutch speaking enclave in New York had Dutch as his native language 94 Dutch in Africa Edit The greatest linguistic legacy of the Netherlands was in its colony in South Africa which attracted large numbers of Dutch farmer in Dutch Boer settlers who spoke a simplified form of Dutch called Afrikaans which is largely mutually intelligible with Dutch After the colony passed into British hands the settlers spread into the hinterland taking their language with them As of 2005 update there were 10 million people for whom Afrikaans is either a primary and secondary language compared with over 22 million speakers of Dutch 95 96 needs update Other creole languages with Dutch linguistic roots are Papiamento still spoken in Aruba Bonaire Curacao and Sint Eustatius Saramaccan and Sranan Tongo still spoken in Suriname Berbice an extinct language in Guyana Pecok spoken but in danger of extinction in Indonesia and the Netherlands Albany Dutch spoken but in danger of extinction in the U S citation needed Extinct Dutch based creole languages include Skepi Guyana Negerhollands aka Negro Dutch Jersey Dutch and Mohawk Dutch U S and Javindo Java citation needed Placenames Edit For a more comprehensive list see List of place names of Dutch origin See also List of place names of Dutch origin in Australia New Amsterdam as it appeared in 1664 Under British rule it became known as New York Some towns of New York and areas of New York City once part of the colony of New Netherland have names of Dutch origin such as Brooklyn after Breukelen Flushing after Vlissingen the Bowery after Bouwerij construction site Harlem after Haarlem Coney Island from Conyne Eylandt modern Dutch spelling Konijneneiland Rabbit island and Staten Island meaning Island of the States The last Director General of the colony of New Netherland Pieter Stuyvesant has bequeathed his name to a street a neighborhood and a few schools in New York City and the town of Stuyvesant Many of the towns and cities along the Hudson in upstate New York have placenames with Dutch origins for example Yonkers Hoboken Haverstraw Claverack Staatsburg Catskill Kinderhook Coeymans Rensselaer Watervliet Nassau County one of the four that make up Long Island is also of Dutch origin The Schuylkill river that flows into the Delaware at Philadelphia is also a Dutch name meaning hidden or skulking river citation needed Many towns and cities in Suriname share names with cities in the Netherlands such as Alkmaar and Groningen The capital of Curacao is named Willemstad and the capitals of both Saint Eustatius and Aruba are named Oranjestad The first is named after the Dutch Prince Willem II van Oranje Nassau William of Orange Nassau and the two others after the first part of the current Dutch royal dynasty citation needed Many of South Africa s major cities have Dutch names i e Johannesburg Kaapstad Vereeniging Bloemfontein and Vanderbijlpark citation needed The country name New Zealand originated with Dutch cartographers who called the islands Nova Zeelandia after the Dutch province of Zeeland 97 British explorer James Cook subsequently anglicized the name to New Zealand d The Australian island state Tasmania is named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman who made the first reported European sighting of the island on 24 November 1642 He first named the island Anthony van Diemen s Land after his sponsor Anthony van Diemen the Governor of the Dutch East Indies The name was later shortened to Van Diemen s Land by the British It was officially renamed in honor of its first European discoverer on 1 January 1856 99 Arnhem Land is named after the Dutch ship named Arnhem The captain of the Arnhem Willem van Coolsteerdt also named the large island east of Arnhem Groote Eylandt in modern Dutch spelling Groot Eiland Large Island The Stadthuys in Malacca Malaysia believed to be the oldest Dutch building in Asia 100 Architecture Edit The Stadhuis of Batavia said to be modelled after the Dam Palace itself Christian cross altar pulpit and organ in the Dutch Reformed Church in Vosburg South Africa Gedung Sate an early 20th century colonial building which incorporates modern Western neo classical style with indigenous elements in Bandung Indonesia In the Surinamese capital of Paramaribo the Dutch Fort Zeelandia still stands today The city itself also have retained most of its old street layout and architecture which is part of the world s UNESCO heritage In the centre of Malacca Malaysia the Stadthuys Building and Christ Church still stand as a reminder of Dutch occupation There are still archaeological remains of Fort Goede Hoop modern Hartford Connecticut and Fort Orange modern Albany New York 101 Dutch architecture is easy to see in Aruba Curacao Bonaire and Saint Eustatius The Dutch style buildings are especially visible in Willemstad with its steeply pitched gables large windows and soaring finials 102 Dutch architecture can also be found in Sri Lanka especially in Galle where the Dutch fortification and canal have been retained intact even to an extent the former tropical Villas of the VOC officials Some of the most prominent example of these architecture is the former governor s mansion in Galle currently known as Amangalla Hotel and the Old Dutch Reformed Church In the capital Colombo many of the Dutch and Portuguese architecture around The Fort have been demolished during the British period few of the remaining include Old Colombo Dutch Hospital and Wolvendaal Church citation needed During the period of Dutch colonisation in South Africa a distinctive type of architecture known as Cape Dutch architecture was developed These style of architecture can be found in historical towns such as Stellenbosch Swellendam Tulbagh and Graaff Reinet In the former Dutch capital of Cape Town nearly nothing from the VOC era have survived except the Castle of Good Hope citation needed Although the Dutch already started erecting buildings shortly after they arrived on the shores of Batavia most Dutch built constructions still standing today in Indonesia stem from the 19th and 20th centuries Forts from the colonial era used for defense purposes still line a number of major coastal cities across the archipelago The largest number of surviving Dutch buildings can be found on Java and Sumatra particularly in cities such as Jakarta Bandung Semarang Yogyakarta Surabaya Cirebon Pasuruan Bukittinggi Sawahlunto Medan Padang and Malang There are also significant examples of 17 19th century Dutch architecture around Banda Neira Nusa Laut and Saparua the former main spices islands which due to limited economic development have retained many of its colonial elements Another prominent example of Dutch colonial architecture is Fort Rotterdam in Makassar The earlier Dutch construction mostly replicate the architecture style in the Homeland such as Toko Merah However these buildings were unsuitable to tropical climate and expensive to maintain And as a result the Dutch officials begun to adapt to the tropical condition by applying native elements such as wide open veranda ventilation and indigenous high pitch roofing into their villas In the beginning of the Dutch presence Dutch construction on Java was based on colonial architecture which was modified according to the tropical and local cultural conditions Indonesian art and design professor Pamudji Suptandar wrote 103 This was dubbed arsitektur Indis Indies architecture which combines the existing traditional Hindu Javanese style with European forms 104 Many public buildings still standing and in use in Jakarta such as the presidential palace the finance ministry and the performing arts theater were built in the 19th century in the classicist style At the turn of the 20th century and partially due to the Dutch Ethical Policy the number of Dutch people migrating to the colony grew with economic expansion The increasing number of middle class population led to the development of Garden Suburbs in major city across the Indies many of the houses were built in various style ranging from the Indies style Neo Renaissance to modern Art Deco Some examples of these residential district include Menteng in Jakarta Darmo in Surabaya Polonia in Medan Kotabaru in Yogyakarta New Candi in Semarang and as well as most of North Bandung 105 Indonesia also became an experimental ground for Dutch Art Deco architectural movement such as Nieuwe Zakelijkheid De Stijl Nieuw Indische and Amsterdam School Several famous architect such as Wolff Schoemaker and Henri Maclaine Pont also made an attempt to modernize indigenous architecture resulting several unique design such as Pohsarang Church and Bandung Institute of Technology The largest stock of these Art Deco building can be found in the city of Bandung which architecturally can considered the most European city in Indonesia citation needed Since Indonesia s independence few governments have shown interest in the conservation of historical buildings Many architecturally grand buildings have been torn down in the past decades to erect shopping centres or office buildings e g Hotel des Indes Batavia Harmony Society Batavia Presently however more Indonesians have become aware of the value of preserving their old buildings citation needed A decade ago most people thought I was crazy when they learned of my efforts to save the old part of Jakarta A few years later the negative voices started to disappear and now many people are starting to think with me how are we going to save our city In the past using the negative sentiment towards the colonial era was often used as an excuse to disregard protests against the demolition of historical buildings An increasing number of people now see the old colonial buildings as part of their city s overall heritage rather than focusing on its colonial aspect leading Indonesian architect and conservationist Budi Lim said 106 Infrastructure Edit The Great Post Road Grote Postweg spanning West to East Java Beyond Indonesia s art deco architecture also much of the country s rail and road infrastructure as well as its major cities were built during the colonial period 107 108 Many of Indonesia s main cities were mere rural townships before colonial industrialization and urban development 109 Examples on Java include the capital Jakarta and Bandung outside Java examples include Ambon and Menado city Most main railroads and rail stations on Java as well as the main road called Daendels Great Post Road Dutch Grote Postweg 110 after the Governor General commissioning the work connecting west to east Java were also built during the Dutch East Indies era citation needed Between 1800 and 1950 Dutch engineers created an infrastructure including 67 000 kilometers 42 000 mi of roads 7 500 kilometers 4 700 mi of railways many large bridges modern irrigation systems covering 1 4 million hectares 5 400 sq mi of rice fields several international harbors and 140 public drinking water systems These Dutch constructed public works became the material base of the colonial and postcolonial Indonesian state 111 Agriculture Edit Dutch plantation in Mughal Bengal 1665 Crops such like coffee tea cocoa tobacco and rubber were all introduced by the Dutch The Dutch were the first to start the spread of the coffee plant in Central and South America and by the early 19th century Java was the third largest producer in the world 112 In 1778 the Dutch brought cacao from the Philippines to Indonesia and commenced mass production 113 Currently Indonesia is the world s second largest producer of natural rubber a crop that was introduced by the Dutch in the early 20th century 114 Tobacco was introduced from the Americas and in 1863 the first plantation was established by the Dutch Today Indonesia is not only the oldest industrial producer of tobacco but also the second largest consumer of tobacco 115 Scientific discoveries Edit Java Man was discovered by Eugene Dubois in Indonesia in 1891 The Komodo dragon was firstly described by Peter Ouwens in Indonesia in 1912 after an airplane crash in 1911 and rumors about living dinosaurs on Komodo Island in 1910 citation needed Sport Edit Suriname Edit Many Suriname born football players and Dutch born football players of Surinamese descent like Gerald Vanenburg Ruud Gullit Frank Rijkaard Edgar Davids Clarence Seedorf Patrick Kluivert Aron Winter Georginio Wijnaldum Virgil van Dijk and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink have turned out to play for the Dutch national team In 1999 Humphrey Mijnals who played for both Suriname and the Netherlands was elected Surinamese footballer of the century 116 Another famous player is Andre Kamperveen who captained Suriname in the 1940s and was the first Surinamese to play professionally in the Netherlands citation needed Suriname discourages dual citizenship and Surinamese Dutch players who have picked up a Netherlands passport which crucially offers legal work status in almost any European league are barred from selection to the national team 117 In 2014 inspired by the success of teams with dual nationals especially Algeria SVB president John Krishnadath submitted a proposal to the national assembly to allow dual citizenship for athletes with the then goal of reaching the 2018 FIFA World Cup finals 118 In order to support this project a team with professional players of Surinamese origin was assembled and played an exhibition match on 26 December 2014 at the Andre Kamperveen Stadion The project is managed by Nordin Wooter and David Endt who have set up a presentation and sent invitations to 100 players of Surinamese origin receiving 85 positive answers Dean Gorre was named to coach this special selection FIFA supported the project and granted insurance for the players and clubs despite the match being unofficial 119 In November 2019 it was announced that a so called sports passport would allow Dutch professional footballers from the Surinamese diaspora to represent Suriname 120 Suriname also has a national korfball team with korfball being a Dutch sport Vinkensport is also practised in Suriname as are popular among the Dutch sports of volleyball and troefcall citation needed South Africa Edit Ajax Cape Town were a professional football team named and owned by Ajax Amsterdam replicating their crest and colours citation needed The Dutch sport of korfball is administered by the South African Korfball Federation who manage the South Africa national korfball team The 2019 IKF World Korfball Championship was held in August 2019 in Durban South Africa citation needed Indonesia Edit The Indonesian football league started around 1930 in the Dutch colonial era The Indonesian men s team was the first Asian team to qualify for the FIFA World Cup in 1938 FIFA World Cup they played as the Dutch East Indies 121 Association football is now the most popular sport in Indonesia in terms of annual attendance participation and revenue and it is played on all levels from children to middle aged men 122 The Indonesian Tennis Association was also founded during Dutch rule in 1935 and has a long history of fielding its national Fed Cup team and Davis Cup team although the first participation s in the 60s were not till after independence citation needed As in the Netherlands volleyball remains a popular sport with the Indonesian Volleyball Federation organising both the Men s Pro Liga and women s Pro Liga and administrates the men s and women s national teams 123 124 The Dutch sport of korfball is also practised and there is a national korfball team citation needed Territorial evolution EditMain article Evolution of the Dutch Empire The Dutch Empire in 1630 The Dutch Empire in 1650 The Dutch Empire in 1674 The Dutch Empire in 1700 The Dutch Empire in 1750 citation needed The Dutch Empire in 1795 citation needed The Dutch Empire in 1830 The Dutch Empire prior to World War II The Dutch Empire in 1960 The Dutch Empire in 1975See also Edit History portal Monarchy portal Netherlands portalDutch colonization of the Americas Dutch 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