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  1. History of Suriname

    The early history of Suriname dates from 3000 BCE when Native Americans first inhabited the area. The Dutch acquired Suriname from the English, and European settlement in any numbers dates from the 17th century, when it was a plantation colony utilizing slavery for sugar cultivation. With abolition in the late 19th century, planters sought labor from China, Madeira, India, and Indonesia, which was also colonized by the Dutch. Dutch is Suriname's official language. Owing to its diverse population, it has also developed a creole language, Sranan Tongo. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Coastline of the Guianas. The first Europeans who came to Suriname were Spanish explorers and Dutch traders who visited the area along with other parts of South America's 'Wild Coast.' In 1613, a Dutch trading post near the village "Parmurbo" was in existence on the Suriname River, while in the same year the Spanish took over another Dutch trading post on the Corantijn River. [4]
  3. britannica.com

    Jan 15, 2025The first permanent settlement of Europeans in Suriname was established by a group of British planters and their slaves in 1651. In 1667 Suriname was seized by a Dutch fleet, and that year it was ceded to the Netherlands in exchange for New Amsterdam (now New York City). (Except for the years 1799-1802 and 1804-15, when it was under British ...
  4. en.wikipedia.org

    The name Suriname may derive from an indigenous people called Surinen, who inhabited the area at the time of European contact. [18] The suffix -ame, common in Surinamese river and place names (see also the Coppename River), may come from aima or eima, meaning river or creek mouth, in Lokono, an Arawak language spoken in the country. [19]The earliest European sources give variants of "Suriname ...
  5. suriname.travel

    The first Europeans who came to Suriname were Spanish explorers and Dutch traders who visited the area along with other parts of South America's 'Wild Coast.' In 1613, a Dutch trading post near the village "Parmurbo" was in existence on the Suriname River, while in the same year the Spanish took over another Dutch trading post on the ...
  6. smartercomputing.org

    Sep 27, 2024Contact with European Explorers (1499 CE - 16th Century) 1499: The first known contact with Europeans occurred when Alonso de Ojeda, a Spanish explorer, reached the northern coast of South America, including the area that would become Suriname. However, Spain did not establish permanent settlements in the region.
  7. wikiwand.com

    A plantation in Suriname by Dirk Valkenburg (1707?) Plantations in Suriname around 1800. Intermittent Settlement Coastline of the Guianas. The first Europeans who came to Suriname were Spanish explorers and Dutch traders who visited the area along with other parts of South America's 'Wild Coast.' In 1613, a Dutch trading post near the village "Parmurbo" was in existence on the Suriname River ...
  8. reconciliationsofnations.com

    The country was named Suriname by Spanish explorers who visited the area. The Europeans made their first attempt to settle in the area in 1630 when English settlers led by Captain Marshall attempted to form a colony but failed. in 1650, Lord Willoughby the governor of Barbados was determined to form a settlement in the area.
  9. theworldofinfo.com

    There are few written sources from the pre-colonial period of Suriname, but archaeological finds indicate that there were some kind of mounds inhabited surrounded by fields in the period until the first Europeans set foot on land. Spaniards, English and Dutch. Flag of the West India Company, Suriname Photo: LTB CC 4.0 International no changes made
  10. The first known Native American tribe was the Suinen. They had been suplanted by other Native Americans at the time of the European conquest (16th century). Columbus was the first European to sail along the coast (1498). The area was next visited by Amerigo Vespucci and Alonso de Ojeda (1499) Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (1500). Most of the major European colonizers (British, Dutch, French, and ...
  11. en.wikipedia.org

    In 1598 Lawrence Kemys, leading an expedition to the Guianas on behalf of Walter Raleigh, passed a river he called "Shurinama".In 1613, a short-lived Dutch trading post had been established inside the mouth of the Suriname River, near an Amerindian village called "Parmurbo". [2] In 1630, British settlers made the first European attempt at colonization at Marshall's Creek, a tributary of the ...
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