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The Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies—mainly the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company—and subsequently by the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), and by the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands ...
A large collection of c. 11,000 map sheets and c. 250 atlases of the Dutch colonies from the former library of the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (Royal Tropical Institute), a State loan since 2013.
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The Royal Tropical Institute has digitized its remarkable historical map collection and made it available online. One of the largest collections of maps of the former Dutch colonies is thereby accessible via Internet for scientists, cartographers and other interested parties in the Netherlands and abroad.
The Dutch built their empire with corporate colonialism by establishing the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Dutch West India Company (GWC), following Britain's footsteps, which led to war between both empires.
In the years around 1640 it appeared that the Dutch were well on the way to consolidating a vast and profitable colonial empire in the western as well as another in the eastern hemisphere.
17 cze 2022 · Maps showing the history of the former colonies of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This is a main category requiring frequent diffusion and maybe maintenance . As many pictures and media files as possible should be moved into appropriate subcategories.
