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Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony - Expand Your Mind - Revolvy  Being the only permanent settlement of the Dutch East India Company not ... Discover the world. ... under the command of Jan van Riebeeck, were the first people to establish a ... The Khoikhoi became the chief source of colonial wage labour. ..... was a British colony in present-day South Africa and Namibia , named after...
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Dutch Cape Colony - Topics  Being the only permanent settlement of the Dutch East India Company not serving as ... the southwest of Africa was inhabited by San people and Khoikhoi who were ..... His good name was later restored and he was promoted to Governor of .... in present-day South Africa and Namibia , named after the Cape of Good Hope .
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Afrikaans - Wikipedia  Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia, and to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the mainly Dutch settlers of what is now South ... The term is ultimately derived from Dutch "Afrikaans-Hollands" meaning...
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TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE: THE KHOIKHOI (HOTTENTOTS ...  Jun 5, 2013 ... The Khoikhoi or Khoi (called 'Hottentots' by early white settlers), are the aboriginal people of South Africa. ... Currently the Nama reside in different parts of Namibia. .... Khoikhoi people doing barter trade with the Dutch .... in present day Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden to separate the Khoikhoi from...
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Baster - Wikipedia  The Basters are a Namibian ethnic group descended from European settlers and indigenous African women from the Dutch Cape ... The name Baster is derived from bastaard, the Dutch word for "bastard" (or "crossbreed"). ... It was a more general name applied to Khoi and Coloured (mixed-race) persons who spoke Dutch...
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J! Archive - Show #10, aired 1984-09-21  Dutch is still an official language in what is now called Suriname ... First colony since 1776 to break from Britain without consent, it is now Zimbabwe...
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Dutch Colonization  Fort Orange, the northernmost of the Dutch outposts, is known today as Albany; New York City's original name was New Amsterdam, and the New Netherland's...
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New Netherland - Wikipedia  New Netherland was a 17th-century colonial province of the Seven United Netherlands that ... In 1609, English sea captain and explorer Henry Hudson was hired by the Dutch East India .... The Algonquian Lenape population around New York Bay and along the Lower Hudson were seasonally migrational people.
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Free Flashcards about FORMERLY KNOWN AS - StudyStack  KNOWN AS DUTCH GUIANA UNTIL 1948, SURINAME. KNOWN AS ... THIS FORMER NAME OF SURINAME REFLECTED ITS STATUS AS A COLONY OF THE...
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An A-Z of country name origins | OxfordWords blog  May 17, 2016 ... It has also been suggested that the country took its name from Arabic ... The country is named after the Belgae, a confederation of tribes that lived between the Rivers ... Named after the indigenous people, the Tswana or baTswana. ..... The name comes from the country's biggest ethnic group, the Mauri.
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Dutch colonisation of the Guianas - Wikipedia  Dutch colonisation of the Guianas  the coastal region between the Orinoco and Amazon rivers ... Cayenne also came under brief periods of Dutch control. ... colony, Suriname (also called "Dutch Guiana"), remained under Dutch control until its ... After 1815, there were five Guianas, referred to by their dominant languages:...
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Namibia - Wikipedia  Location of Namibia (dark blue).  in Africa  in the African Union (light blue). Capital .... Before its independence in 1990, the area was known first as German .... an arid region that extends into South Africa and Botswana, is one of Namibia's well-known ... Namibia is one of few countries in the world to specifically address...
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knicks / knick | WordReference Forums  Aug 2, 2006 ... Log in with Facebook ... Named after the Dutch settlers that landed in New York in the 1600's ... History tells us that the people of New Amsterdam were canny traders and wore funny pants. ... Diedrich Knickerbocker, the fictitious author of Washington Irving's 1809 novel Knickerbocker's History of New York.
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Happy 23rd Independence day to Namibia-Independence from ...  Mar 19, 2013 ... It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, ... Namibia became a German colony in 1884 to forestall British ..... nearly half of them endemic; fully one-third of the world's succulents are found in the Karoo.
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The country of Namibia was once known as this, & that's also where ...  Jul 8, 2016 ... The country of Namibia was once known as this, & that's also where it is on the # Quiz # Question ... Namibia, Botswana & Zimbabwe are on this country's northern border # Quiz # Question. 0:29 ... Southern Africa Map Review.
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Ron_357  Nov 9, 2007 ... The Boers of Voortrekker & Trekboer descent are considered an .... The Cape Dutch attempted to retain nominal control over the ... The Trekboers have been called the "gypsy of the desert" .... First Trekboers cross the Orange River. ...... In the late nineteenth century, when most research on Afrikaans was...
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Voortrekker | people | Britannica.com  Any of the Boers (Dutch settlers or their descendants), or, as they came to be called in the ... who were Boers who had moved into the interior prior to the mid-1830s but on an ... Ox wagon used by Voortrekkers, on display at Kruger National Park, S.Af. ... Voortrekker is an Afrikaans word meaning "someone who treks ahead.
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Free Flashcards about WORLD HISTORY - StudyStack  IN 1920 THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS GAVE THIS NEIGHBORING COUNTRY A MANDATE OVER THE TERRITORY OF NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA. IN 1025...
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German South-West Africa - Wikipedia  German South-West Africa (German: Deutsch-Sdwestafrika, DSWA) was a colony of the ... Earlier, the colonial aim was to dispossess the indigenous peoples of their land, ... a western arm of the Kalahari Desert, where many of them died of thirst. ... Many German names, buildings, and businesses still exist in the country,...
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Dutch Empire - Wikipedia  An anachronous map of the Dutch colonial Empire. Light green: territories administered by or ... Before and later alongside the British, the Dutch initially built up colonial ..... The Dutch established a colony at Tayouan (present-day Anping), in the .... populations with little income and which required subsidies from the Dutch...
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Abel Janszoon Tasman | Dutch explorer and navigator | Britannica ...  Jun 10, 2016 ... Greatest of the Dutch navigators and explorers, who discovered ... and he skirted its southern shores, naming it Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). .... to see parts of Australia, including the island that is now named for him.