• (Redirected from Suriname (Dutch colony)). Surinam (Dutch: Suriname), also unofficially known as Dutch Guiana, was a Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas...
  • Suriname became a Dutch colony in 1667. With the abolition of African slavery in 1863, workers were brought in from India and Java.
  • Suriname developed into a flourishing plantation colony after Dutch planters, driven out of Brazil from the mid-17th century, settled in the area.
  • Also known as. English. Surinam. Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas. ... 0 references. currency. Surinamese guilder. start time. 1942.
  • Surinam (dutch guiana). Dutch possession on the northeastern coast of South America. Surinam is the home of the Jewish community with the longest...
  • Suriname was a Dutch colony from 26 February 1667 when Dutch forces captured the English colony during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
  • ...the “Kleine Vaart” in the Caribbean, Antillean colonial society, the colonists and the society of Suriname, Surinam: plantation colony
  • Presidential Palace of Suriname. Main article: Surinam (Dutch colony). Beginning in the 16th century, French, Spanish and English explorers visited the area.
  • As Joyce Sidman writes in her history of the scientist Maria Merian, who traveled to Surinam (also known then as Dutch Guyana) to do research in 1699
  • Surinam (Dutch colony), commonly called “Dutch Guiana” after the loss of other large colonies in the area.
  • Surinam use to be under the command of the Netherlands, this is why we speak Dutch in Surinam. You will be surprised how often I have hear…
  • Surinamese Dutch may be viewed as a continuum of (spoken) varieties situated on a scale ranging between 100% Sranantongo and 100% Dutch.