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The Dutch East Indies produced most of the world's supply of quinine and pepper, over a third of its rubber, a quarter of its coconut products, and a fifth of its tea, sugar, coffee and oil. The profit from the Dutch East Indies made the Netherlands one of the world's most significant colonial powers. [29]
The bankrupt Dutch East India Company was liquidated on 1 January 1800, [65] 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 ...
1.2 South Africa. 1.3 Mozambique. 1.4 Madagascar. 1.5 Mauritius. 2 Middle East. Toggle Middle East subsection. ... 4.6 Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) 4.7 Vietnam ...
A 1685 reprint of a 1656 map of the Dutch North American colonies showing Dutch territorial claims from Chesapeake Bay and the Susquehanna River in the south and west, to Narragansett Bay and the Providence and Blackstone rivers in the east, to the St. Lawrence River in the north
Map of the East Indies. The VOC name came from the Dutch East Indies Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compangnie). [10] This trading company was founded in the Dutch Republic, started in 1602 to protect their trade along the Indian Ocean. The VOC main trade location was in Indonesia. The company became the only power of the peninsula.
The Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now mostly the modern state of Indonesia. The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 , which ceded Dutch Malacca , a governorate of the Dutch East Indies that was transferred to Great Britain has consolidated modern-day rule to the Malacca state of Malaysia .
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The Dutch East Indies (1800–1949) — also known as the Netherlands East Indies, a former colony in Southeast Asia. The colonial predecessor of the present day nation of Indonesia and the Malacca state of Malaysia in Maritime Southeast Asia .