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  Guiana
Guiana was the name given to all that region of South America which extends along the Atlantic coast from the Orinoco to the Amazon.
The Corentyn separates British Guiana from Dutch Guiana, on the east, while the latter is separated from the French colony by the Maroni.
Guiana is the habitat of several dangerous species of wild beasts, including the jaguar, as well as of the anaconda and of the most deadly reptiles in the New World.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/g/guiana.html   (1272 words)

  
 Guiana - LoveToKnow 1911
The Dutch, while British Guiana was in their possession, claimed the whole watershed of the Essequibo river, while the Venezuelans asserted that the Spanish province of Guayana had extended up to the left bank of the Essequibo.
In 1902 the delimitation of the boundary between British Guiana and Brazil was referred to the arbitration of the king of Italy, and by his reward, issued in June 1904, the substantial area in dispute was conceded to British Guiana.
British Guiana bounds it on the west and French on the east (the long unsettled question of the French boundary is dealt with in section III., French Guiana).
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Guiana   (10731 words)

  
 History of French Guiana - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Dutch briefly occupied it for a period in 1676.
After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which deprived France of almost all her possessions in the Americas other than Guiana and a few islands, Louis XV sent thousands of settlers to Guiana who were lured there with stories of plentiful gold and easy fortunes to be made.
In 1853 gold was discovered in the interior, precipitating border disputes with Brazil and Dutch Guiana (these were later settled in 1891, 1899 and 1915, though a small region of the border with Suriname is still disputed).
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/History_of_French_Guiana   (1295 words)

  
 Guyana - HISTORY
Dutch sovereignty was officially recognized with the signing of the Treaty of Munster in 1648.
Although the Dutch colonizers initially were motivated by the prospect of trade in the Caribbean, their possessions became significant producers of crops.
The Dutch were eminently suited to this task, having originated the polder system, a technique by which a tract of usable land is created by damming and then draining a water-covered area.
www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/guyana/HISTORY.html   (8817 words)

  
 History of Suriname - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The settlement was invaded by the Dutch (from the Zeeland region), led by Abraham Crijnssen, on 27 February 1667.
On 31 July 1667, the English and Dutch signed the Treaty of Breda, in which for the time being the status quo was respected: the Dutch could keep occupying Suriname and the British the formerly Dutch colony New Amsterdam (modernday New York).
The Dutch initially accepted the new government, however relations between Suriname and the Netherlands collapsed when 15 members of the political opposition were killed by the army on December 8, 1982 in Fort Zeelandia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Suriname   (1659 words)

  
 Chapter II
To the archaeologist, anthropologist, culture historian, or geographer the Guiana region is best defined as an area of land bounded by the Orinoco river on the west and north-west, by the Amazon river and the Rio Negro on the south and south-west, and by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and north-east.
The supposition is that the earliest inhabitants of the Guiana region spoke non-Arawakan and non-Cariban languages, possessed a simple nomadic hunting, gathering, and fishing culture and made none of the pottery which distinguishes later periods.
During the seventeenth century Dutch traders penetrated far into the interior of Guiana from Essequibo, Berbice, and from another settlement on the Pomeroon which lasted until it was conquered and disbanded by the English in 1665.
home.uchicago.edu /~rts1/chapter_ii.htm   (5412 words)

  
 Comparative Criminology | South America - Suriname
Dutch settlement began in 1616 at the mouths of several rivers between present-day Georgetown, Guyana, and Cayenne, French Guiana.
The disposition of the funds was a matter of much discussion during recent Dutch cabinet-level visits intended to lay the groundwork to restart the flow of guilders, which the Dutch stanched in response to irresponsible spending by the Wijdenbosch administration.
In September the Dutch court ruled that it did not have jurisdiction in such a case; relatives of two of the victims took the case to the European Court of Human Rights.
www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/samerica/suriname.html   (5213 words)

  
 The Trail of Diplomacy-Part 1
Upon the coast of the Guiana region are found the mouths of numerous rivers, which, owing to the thickness of the forests and the marshy nature of the coast, afforded the only means of entering and traversing the country.
In 1614, the Dutch besieged Trinidad in conjunction with the Caribs.
The fact that, at that time, the Dutch in Guiana were engaged in repressing with some difficulty a revolt of their African slaves appeared to have suggested to the two countries that they should attempt to oust the Dutch altogether from the colonies that they had founded.
www.guyana.org /features/trail_diplomacy_pt1.html   (17544 words)

  
 Venezuela-Guyana
Dutch sovereignty was recognized by the Treaty of Munster in 1648.
The Dutch invited British settlement and by 1760 the British were in the majority.
In 1833 the colony of Berbice was united with Demarara and Essequibo as Brithish Guiana.
sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/venezuela1.htm   (548 words)

  
 Matters of Taste: Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Dutch farmers begin to import wheat and rye and use their own land to graze cattle.
Calvinism is adopted as the official religion of the Dutch Republic during the Synods of Dordrecht.
As a result, the Dutch West India Company draws settlers for the North American colony from refugees who had come to the Netherlands from other nations, and New Netherland is populated with groups of Dutch, British, French, Germanic, Scandinavian, Hibernian, Iberian and Slavic descent.
www.albanyinstitute.org /resources/archive/dutch/dutch.timeline.htm   (1629 words)

  
 Suriname - South America: aluminum ore, control defense, dutch guiana, south america, government history
Suriname, republic of northeastern South America, bounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by French Guiana, on the south by Brazil, and on the west by Guyana.
The Dutch gained control of the colony later in the century and began gradually displacing the indigenous people.
In 1949 citizens were allowed to elect a parliament to pass legislation on domestic matters, but the Dutch government continued to control defense and foreign affairs.
www.countriesquest.com /south_america/suriname.htm   (284 words)

  
 Political and Economic History of Guyana
The Dutch captured the north coast of South America, the Guianas, and also the northeast territories of Brazil, although the latter ultimately had to be surrendered back to the Portuguese.
In the Guianas the Dutch saw the commercial potential of using their polder-building skills to drain the swampy coastal and riverine areas for tropical plantations.
In the eighteenth century the Dutch encouraged English settlers to develop plantations in the western part of their Guianas territory and by the latter part of that century the English planters were virtually controlling the western part of the Dutch possessions.
www2.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/guyana.htm   (1444 words)

  
 Maroons of French Guiana and Surinam
The Aluku (Boni) of French Guiana and the Saramaka and Ndjuka of Suriname,
The ancestors of the Saramaka escaped form the Dutch in the 17th century.
The Ndjuka escaped in the early 18th century, and their treaty with the Dutch was signed in 1760.
www.folklife.si.edu /resources/maroon/foodways/guiana.htm   (1239 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Guiana, South America (South American Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
It includes SE Venezuela, part of N Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname (formerly Dutch Guiana), and Guyana (formerly British Guiana).
The Dutch and subsequently the English reclaimed much of the tidal lands for planting sugarcane and rice, but the acreage is tiny in comparison to Guiana as a whole.
The Dutch were the first to settle, but ownership of territory changed hands many times.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Guiana.html   (426 words)

  
 Imperialism and Modernisation: 1830 to 1910
Rajas of Buleleng and Karangasem are dissatisfied with Dutch, and refuse to ratify treaties.
Dutch institute direct rule in the Sultanate of Asahan in northern Sumatra and remove the Sultan to Riau.
King Sisingamangaraja XII of the Bataks revolts against the Dutch, and is shot in the conflict.
www.gimonca.com /sejarah/sejarah05.shtml   (4066 words)

  
 Dutch guiana - Find The Best Dutch guiana Resources Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
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The Republic of Suriname, more commonly known as Suriname or Surinam, (formerly known as Netherlands Guiana and Dutch Guiana) is a country in northern South America, in between French Guiana to the...
The Allied blockade of French Guiana was lifted, and trade was resumed with the United States, Brazil, and the British and Dutch possessions in America.
baidubuqin.com /bibq/dutch-guiana.html   (300 words)

  
 Suriname   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
In 1795 the 'Society of Suriname' is liquidated, and the colony is governed by the 'Raad der Colonien' ('Council of Colonies').
New arms are adopted, consisting of the three-master, flying a (Dutch) flag with 'R.v.S.' for 'Raad van Suriname' ('Council of Suriname').
On 1 March 1803 the Batavian Republic abolished all previous adopted arms, and the Dutch arms (a lion of gold with sword and bunch of arrows) with 'Suriname' underneath became the new arms of Suriname.
www.fotw.us /flags/sr.html   (1564 words)

  
 Black Dutch
If you have been told you are Black Dutch or part Black Dutch, you must find out what the name of the German, Dutch or Flemish immigrant was (if there was one), where he or she came from, what their religion was, if any, etc., before you can figure out to which group they belonged.
They are the descendants of free Mulattos from Dutch farms in the Hudson Valley who moved to the mountains, where they may have mixed with some remnant Indians, who probably would have been the Munsee group of Lenape (Lenni-Lenape or Delaware) Indians, definitely Algonquian speaking Indians of the East Coast.
Dutch and Belgian Jews were sometimes called Black Dutch in America because they spoke Dutch or Flemish and were darker than the other Dutch and Flemish.
www.geocities.com /mikenassau/BlackDutch.htm   (1912 words)

  
 Report 6
Great Britain, from the moment these colonies were ceded to her, had therefore the same claim to the terminus of the boundary of that part of the American Continent as when it had been under the Dominion of the House of Orange, who were the acknowledged sovereigns for more than two centuries.
In 1669, the Dutch West India Company granted to Count Frederick Casimir, of Hanau, a piece of land which he might select from their possessions at the wild coast of America for the purpose of settling a German colony, in which document the Orinoco is again alluded to as the western boundary of their possessions.
He published his works on the Orinoco in 1745.(9) Father Caulin followed him, and his ire is frequently raised against the Dutch heretics, who infested the Cuyuni, and traded with the Indians adjacent to the mission of the Capuchins, and instructed the fugitive Christians of the mission silently in their heresy.
www.guyanaca.com /suriname/report6.html   (2120 words)

  
 Guyana Outpost: Wayne's Guyana Page
Guyana, formerly British Guiana, is the only English-speaking country in South America, and its neighbours are Venezuela, Brazil, and Suriname (formerly Dutch Guiana) to the west, south and east respectively.
The influence of the Dutch, Amerindian, British and to a lesser extent the French, can be seen in the place names that persist to the present.
It is located on the eastern bank of the estuary of the Demerara River, a site chosen by the Dutch for strategic reasons to protect their settlements along the river.
guyanaoutpost.com /synopsis.shtml   (1093 words)

  
 CaribNation Television: Links - Suriname
Two decades later, the Dutch took possession in one of the silliest property deals ever transacted, by swapping New Amsterdam (present-day New York) for the English territory in Suriname.
The abolition of slavery led to labour shortages in the early 19th century, and indentured labourers were brought in from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), India, China, Portugal and Lebanon.
Although Dutch is the official language, the vernacular Sranan (also known as Surinaams), an English-based creole, is widely spoken.
www.caribnationtv.com /suriname.html   (1305 words)

  
 GEIST – The Hunters
Gerrit Van Aerssen was born in Dutch Guiana to a Brigadier General and an heiress.
The government of Dutch Guiana adopted a staunch policy of sending back all escapees who crossed to the Dutch side in their attempt to flee down the only pathway through the dense jungle, the Moengo Road to Paramaribo.
Emm, known as “Splendeur Sauvage” or “Wild Splendor” in her hometown of Cayenne in French Guiana, is the daughter of the warden of the most dreaded penal colony of all times, Devil’s Island.
www.playgeist.com /hunters.asp   (1189 words)

  
 Suriname History -- Recommendations and Resources
The settlements were invaded by the Dutch, lead by Abraham Crijnsen.
In 1667, the English and Dutch signed the Treaty of Breda, in which the Dutch traded their colony New Amsterdam (currently New York) for Suriname.
The most southern parts of the borders with Guyana and French Guiana are disputed (upper Corantijn and Marowijne rivers—the map shows the Guyana and Guiana versions of the border).
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/143/suriname-history.html   (1302 words)

  
 Dutch Guiana - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Dutch Guiana" at HighBeam.
Teenager from French Guiana sentenced to two years in prison for drug smuggling
In French Guiana, identity clashes with colonial history, multitude of cultures
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-dutchgui.html   (193 words)

  
 About Suriname - Travel, Maps, Flag and Information
The Republic of Suriname, more commonly known as Suriname or Surinam, (formerly known as Netherlands Guiana and Dutch Guiana) is a country in northern South America, in between French Guiana to the east and Guyana to the west.
It is situated on the Guiana Shield and part of Caribbean South America.
The Palm Garden, or "Palmentuin," in the Dutch area of Paramaribo should be avoided after dark due to the lack of police presence.
www.canadiancontent.net /profiles/Suriname.html   (483 words)

  
 TDS; Passports, Visas, Travel Documents
Bouterse, who had placed himself as the NDP’s declared presidential candidate, withdrew from the race days before the National Assembly convened to vote for the next president and tapped his running mate, Rabin Parmessar, to run as the NDP’s candidate.
In the National Assembly, the NF challenged Parmessar’s Surinamese citizenship, displaying copies of a Dutch passport issued to Parmessar in 2004.
After two votes, no candidate received the required two-thirds majority, pushing the final decision in August 2005 to a special session of the United People’s Assembly, where President Venetiaan was reelected with a significant majority of votes from the local, district, and national assembly members gathered.
www.traveldocs.com /sr/history.htm   (1536 words)

  
 Dutch Quizzes and Trivia -- FunTrivia
It´s important to bear in mind that the Dutch colonial empire was mainly a trading empire relying on key ports and bases rather than on the colonization of vast areas.
It was the principal harbor of the Malabar Coast.
* This Dutch colony in South America was ceded to them by England under the terms of the Treaty of Breda in 1667.
www.funtrivia.com /ql.cfm?cat=4023   (567 words)

  
 The Church of the Saved (Punisher foes)
In Punisher II#4, Ray White told the Punisher that the Reverend was to settle in Dutch Guiana, a country with a lefty government, free of the facist, racist United States.
Now Dutch Guiana became independant in 1975, and has been known as Surinam ever since.
In Punisher II#5 Punisher arrives in Guiana with The Reverend and the rest of The Church, but now they arrived in Georgetown, which is the capital of Guiana, the former British colony.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/churchsa.htm   (1678 words)

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