New Amsterdam, a town on the tip of Manhattan Island within the Dutch colony of New Netherland, saw a sudden influx of African slave labor in 1655. The Dutch had been involved with the African ...

Centuries-old stone Buddha statues and precious jewelry repatriated by the Dutch government to its former colony are on ...

Numerous tribes (mostly Frisians and Batavians) become the area’s first inhabitants. Peter Minuit (Director-General of the Dutch colony of New Netherlands) purchases Manhattan Island for the ...

Centuries-old stone Buddha statues and precious jewelries repatriated by the Dutch government to its former colony are on ...

Located about a kilometre away from Bandel is Shinsurah which feels like a part of Holland on the Ganges. This was a highly lucrative post for the Dutch East India Company once. The Octagonal Church ...

In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the ...

Desi Bouterse, a military strongman who led a 1980 coup in the former Dutch colony of Suriname, then returned to power by election three decades later despite charges of drug smuggling and murder ...

Travel company TUI has apologised after offering Dutch tourists the chance to follow in the footsteps of their “brave ancestors” who enslaved people in the former colony of Suriname.

The government of the former Dutch colony had ruled out a state funeral for Bouterse, who was sentenced in 2023 to 20 years in prison over the killing of opposition members in 1982. He went into ...