"God zij met ons Suriname" (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌɣɔt ˈsɛi mɛt ɔns syːriˈnaːmə]; "God be with our Suriname"), or "Opo kondreman" ("Rise, countrymen" in...
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Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America, also considered as part of the Caribbean and the West Indies. It...
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Sranan Tongo (redirect from Suriname Creole)
the poet Henri Frans de Ziel ("Trefossa"), who also wrote God zij met ons Suriname, Suriname's national anthem, whose second verse is sung in Sranan Tongo...
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and national anthem. New Zealand has two anthems, God Defend New Zealand and God Save the King. God Defend New Zealand was added in 1977 after a petition...
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Suriname was a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands between 1954 and 1975. The country had full autonomy, except in areas of defence and...
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church for many years. In 1959, Trefossa wrote God zij met ons Suriname, a new national anthem for Suriname. Originally Trefossa used a melody by Helstone...
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verses contain a link to religion and the sixth verse is entirely devoted to God. No reference to Christianity in the original text, only in the unofficial...
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side. The 1-guilder, 2+1⁄2 guilder, and five guilder coins had God zij met ons ('God be with us') inscribed on the edge. Between 1814 and 1838, the Dutch...
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Dutch, for example, whereas "God be with you" in modern Dutch would be God zij met u, the Afrikaans spelling God sy met u, was also used in 18th century...
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neoromantic writer in Dutch and Sranan Tongo from Suriname. He is best known for the Sranan Tongo stanzas of Suriname's National Anthem. He was an educator and...
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October 2010. De openbare lichamen vallen rechtstreeks onder het Rijk omdat zij geen deel uitmaken van een provincie. "Through the establishment of the BES...
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rate of 1 rixdollar = 1 shilling 6 pence (£1 = 13+1⁄3 rixdollars). In Suriname, the Surinamese Rijksdaalder circulated until 2004, when the Surinamese...
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under Dutch rule, such as New Amsterdam (present-day New York City) and Suriname, and in Africa in the Dutch Cape Colony. The coin's name was preserved...
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