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Fort Nassau (officially: Fort Oranje Nassau) is a fort located in Willemstad, Curaçao. It is located on a 68 metres (223 ft) [1] [2] high hill overlooking the city of Willemstad and its harbour. It was constructed in 1796 as Fort Republiek. In 1807, Curaçao was captured by the British, and the fort was renamed Fort George. In 1816, Curaçao ...
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English: Fort Nassau, Curacao. Erected as Fort Republiek in the early 1800s, then called Fort George during the British occupation from 1807-16, then renamed Fort Oranje Nassau afterwards. Occupied by the US military in WWII, then abandoned after 1947, before becoming a restaurant in 1959. Source: historical marker at the entrance.
Willemstad (/ ˈ w ɪ l ə m s t ɑː t, ˈ v ɪ l-/ WIL-əm-staht, VIL-, Dutch: [ˈʋɪləmstɑt] ⓘ, Papiamento: [wiləmˈstad]; lit. ' William Town ') is the capital and largest city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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The Old Fort of Nassau, also known as Fort Nassau, was a fort in Nassau, Bahamas, first built in 1697. The fort lasted for nearly two hundred years with a rich legacy of history until it was finally demolished in 1897. [1] It was located on the north side of Marlborough Street, on the site of the current British Colonial Hilton Nassau. [2]
Source/Photographer: Image extracted from page 219 of Westindische Skizzen.Reise-Erinnerungen. Separatausgabe des 1en Theils von Bericht über eine Reise nach Niederländisch West-Indien …, by MARTIN, K..
Stadion Ergilio Hato (Dutch: Ergilio Hatostadion, also in Papiamento: Sentro Deportivo Korsou SDK) is a multi-purpose stadium in Willemstad, Curaçao. [2] It is also known as Sentro Deportivo Korsou (SDK) and is the island's largest stadium, with a capacity of 10,000 spectators.