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List of Dutch West India Company trading posts and settlements

List of Dutch West India Company trading posts and settlements

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This is a list of the trading posts and settlements of the Dutch West India Company (active 1621–1791), including chronological details of possessions taken over from the Dutch state in 1621, and for the period after 1791 when the Dutch government took over responsibility again.

The list runs in geographical sequence from north to south along the West African coast and from north to south through the Americas.

West Africa

Mauritania

Senegal

Sierra Leone

  • Tasso Island (1664; destroyed by Admiral De Ruyter)

Liberia

Ghana (Dutch Gold Coast)

1611–1872

Togo

Benin (Dutch Slave Coast)

Nigeria

West Central Africa

Equatorial Guinea

  • Annobón: 1641–164?/ 1665–16.. (to Portugal)

São Tomé

Congo

  • Loango (Boary) (1648/ –1686/ 1721–1726)
  • Ngoyo or G'oy

Angola

26 August 1641.- 21/24 August 1648.,

  • São Paulo de Luanda (Luanda): Fort Aardenburgh (26 August 1641 – 21/24 August 1648) to Portugal.
  • São Filipe de Benguela (Benguela): (Sept. 1641 – 1648) to Portugal
  • Pinda or Mpinda (Sonyo):-at the mouth of the Congo River (1648) to Portugal
  • Ensandeira island:(at the mouth of the Kwanza river) Fort Mols (1645/6–1648) to Portugal
  • Malemba (Cabinda)

Americas

North America

Main article: New Netherland settlements

Settlements of the New Netherland colony,[3] now in the present day U.S. states of:

Caribbean

South America

Brazil (Dutch Brazil)

Guyana

Guyane

Suriname

References

  1. [1]
    VAN WELIE, RIK (2008). "Slave Trading and Slavery in the Dutch Colonial Empire: A Global Comparison". NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 82 (1/2): 58. JSTOR 43390702. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  2. [2]
    Ogot, Bethwell (1999). General history of Africa, abridged edition, v. 5: Africa from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. UNESCO. p. 140. ISBN 0520067002. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  3. [3]
    "A Brief Outline of the History of New Netherland". The Coins of Colonial and Early America. University of Notre Dame, Department of Special Collections. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
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