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Rene ten Dam

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Over the past 130 years, several inventories have been carried out a...

Close to Fort Kochi's former bastion Gelderland the Dutch Cemetery i...

According to oral tradition, it was the apostle Thomas who introduce...

Peter Stuyvesant was director-general of the Dutch colony of New Net...

Not long after the Dutch conquered the fort at Nagapattinam from the...

In 1658 the VOC captured the Portuguese fort at Nagapattinam. In add...

In 1621 the VOC established a factory in Agra. The first head of the...

Saltpetre, an important raw material for gunpowder, was extracted ne...

Around 1670 the VOC factory in Patna was run by a Banya, a local mer...

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