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With abolition in the late 19th century, planters sought labor from China, Portugal , the British Raj, and the Dutch East Indies , which was also colonized by the Dutch. Dutch is Suriname's official language. Owing to its diverse population, it has also developed a creole language, Sranan Tongo. [1]
Surinam (Dutch: Suriname), also unofficially known as Dutch Guiana, was a Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas and the predecessor polity of modern country of Suriname.It was bordered by the fellow Dutch colony of Berbice to the west, and the French colony of Cayenne to the east.
In 1630, British settlers made the first European attempt at colonization at Marshall's Creek, a tributary of the Suriname. [3] The Dutch navigator David Pietersz. de Vries wrote of traveling up the " Sername " river in 1634 until he encountered the English colony there, which did not last much longer.
Flag of the governor of Suriname (1966–1975) This is a list of colonial governors of Suriname, a country in northern South America.It borders French Guiana to the east, Guyana to the west, Brazil to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north.
Soon after Suriname obtained its independence, most Europeans returned to the Netherlands. Around 300,000 Surinamese also decided to move to Europe and take Dutch citizenship. [ 2 ] In February 1980 Dési Bouterse , head of the Surinamese military, staged a violent coup d'état against Prime Minister Henck Arron and Bouterse became de facto ...
Before the arrival of European colonials, the Guianas were populated by scattered bands of native Arawak people. The native tribes of the Northern amazon forests are most closely related to the natives of the Caribbean; most evidence suggests that the Arawaks immigrated from the Orinoco and Essequibo River Basins in Venezuela and Guiana into the northern islands, and were then supplanted by ...
A story provided by the Tippecanoe County Historical Association about Findley and Webster moved to Liberia as part of Indiana Colonization Society.
As part of his efforts, Crijnssen renamed the town of Paramaribo as Nieuw-Middelburg and Fort Willoughby as Fort Zeelandia. To transport the significant amount of sugar collected as part of the ransom, Crijnssen arranged for it to be shipped to Zealand using the vessel Aardenburg.