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All Modern-Day Countries Ever Controlled by the Netherlands
With the help of a map, can you guess all modern day countries that were at one point (at least partially) under Dutch rule from 1579 (signing of the Union of Utrecht) up to now?
To think that France and UK were ruled by the Dutch because at some point in history they ruled a small island/territory in the Caribbean is a stretch to say the least.
Doesn't matter. They had territories that were once under Dutch control and thus it counts for this quiz. Nowhere does it imply that the ENTIRE country was under Dutch control now, does it?
Also, it could be argued that mainland Britain should be on this map because they were ruled in a personal union for a short time after the Glorious Revolution lol
Nice quiz again! Apparently Tokyo isn't a country - silly me *facepalm* took me a while to figure out why it didn't work. The Dutch certainly enjoyed their trading posts eh!
I suppose you could, at a stretch, include Australia because bits of Western Australia were briefly (and involuntarily) settled by the shipwrecked survivors of Batavia in 1629 and Vergulde Draek in 1656. Then again, while they did live there and controlled the islands/coast for a while, neither group officially claimed them for the republic insofar as I know.
Wrong. The Maldives were under Dutch protectorate between 1645 and 1796. Hegemony was established by the Dutch East India Company over Maldivian affairs after the Portuguese were kicked out.
The Dutch asserted themselves in Sri Lanka, and there was a formal title suggesting some sort of protectorate relationship with the Maldives as a result. This claim had been made by the Portuguese, who in fact occupied the country for fifteen years. After the Portuguese were expelled from the Maldives in 1573 (but remained in Sri Lanka), there was no relationship between any European power and the Maldives, regardless of who was in charge of Sri Lanka. There were no Dutch representatives (or Dutch people of any sort) in the Maldives. They had nothing to do with local governance, trade, foreign affairs, or anything else. The sultans of the Maldives didn't answer to anyone in any way until a formal agreement was made with the British to enact a protectorate, in 1887 (although the British as well, as rulers of Sri Lanka, had made the claim much earlier). Even then, no Brit lived on the islands, and there were no attempts to limit the autonomy of the sultans.
Great... I love when the sources I use are misleading. I'll probably remove the Maldives then for the sake of historical accuracy.
Protected states / protectorates were strange, especially when control is relatively loose. I feel like it's hard to determine the actual status when it comes to states under protected status because that's what's usually the case. I can imagine this being the case with a lot of territories in the Dutch East Indies / modern Indonesia at the time as well.
Apologies for for my extreme directness in my previous message, by the way.
Months late, but the first Dutch explorers on the west side of Australia thought Australia was uncolonizable since they saw little water or soil. By the time the British proved they could build a settlement in the 1780s the Dutch had no money left to invest outside of the East Indies since they'd just been at war.
New Holland was named that only because Abel Tasman was Dutch. Same with New Zealand, which incidentally also was never Dutch-controlled.
i didnt know the netherlands had colonies in mauritania, angola, mozambique and more. i also thought the netherlands didnt control that much in india WHILE I AM DUTCH MYSELF
Whait seriously??? I am a great fan of you dekkie and you are Dutch too? Great quiz! But Chile? I searched out All Dutch colonies but couldn’t find Chile
Damn! Great Quiz! Missed the sneaky one in Chile. Truly fascinating just how many ports and tiny settlements / colonies they had. Imagine if they decided to colonize this stuff!
From 1615 to 1638 it served as a whaling base under the Dutch Noordsche Compagnie, which was granted a monopoly on the Arctic regions by the States General of the Dutch Republic in 1614.
Thanks, great quiz!
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Protected states / protectorates were strange, especially when control is relatively loose. I feel like it's hard to determine the actual status when it comes to states under protected status because that's what's usually the case. I can imagine this being the case with a lot of territories in the Dutch East Indies / modern Indonesia at the time as well.
Apologies for for my extreme directness in my previous message, by the way.
New Holland was named that only because Abel Tasman was Dutch. Same with New Zealand, which incidentally also was never Dutch-controlled.
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