While Parisians have recently rediscovered the pleasure of swimming in the Seine, Amsterdammers have enjoyed swimming in the ...

The Dutch East India Company ship, the Zuytdorp, likely crashed into the shore of Western Australia in 1712 due to a storm and not bad navigation, new research has found.

Experience Hoorn, a historic gem in North Holland, Netherlands, on the shores of the Markermeer Lake. Dating back to the 14th ...

The Dutch presence in the Indonesian archipelago-first brought about by the decision of the Dutch East India Company in the ...

A religious fanatic and officer with the Dutch East India Company who perpetrated slaughter for his entertainment. February 16, 2002 More than 23 years ago Summary By Jonathan Yardley ...

The UNESCO Memory of the World archive of the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC), consisting of approximately twenty-five million pages, not only gives insights into ...

The story of the other East India Company: a Dutch enterprise in Ceylon (gorgeous images alert) They came to oust the Portuguese, but stayed far longer than the king of Ceylon wanted them to.

In January 1726, the East India Company ship Compton discovered Hasenbosch’s camp – a tent, bedding, and items including a kettle and tea, pipes, a hatchet and nails and his diary up to November.

This lecture guides the audience to the time when colonization started to reach the shores of the East Indian archipelago when the Europeans, most notably the Iberians and the Dutch sailed there in ...