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    Fort Zeelandia is a fortress in Paramaribo, Suriname. In 1640 the French built a wooden fort on the spot which, during British colonial period, was reinforced...
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    with Fort Zeelandia in Paramaribo, Suriname, the current brick fort was built in 1743 for the Essequibo colony, replacing an earlier wooden fort built...
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    Fort Zeelandia, Paramaribo. He served as president between 2010 and 2020. These two cases still strain relations between the Netherlands and Suriname...
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  • Guyana Fort Zeelandia (Paramaribo), a historical fort in Suriname Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan) or Fort Anping, a historical fort in Taiwan USS Zeelandia (Id....
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    leading town of the now Dutch colony of Suriname. The fort protecting Paramaribo was renamed Fort Zeelandia in honor of the Dutch province that had financed...
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  • between Suriname and the Netherlands collapsed when 15 members of the political opposition were killed by the army on December 8, 1982, in Fort Zeelandia. This...
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    inside the fort. After the independence of Suriname, a monument was erected in the fort. Fort Zeelandia (Paramaribo) List of museums in Suriname "Archived...
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    Palma de Mallorca Star Fort (Matara) Jaffna Fort (Jaffna) Galle Fort Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam, New Amsterdam, Commewijne Fort Zeelandia, Waterside, Paramaribo...
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    Paramaribo District (category Districts of Suriname)
    century with the construction of Fort Willoughby. This fort was later taken by the Netherlands and renamed Fort Zeelandia. The area, and the city of Paramaribo...
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    of Fort Willoughby to Fort Zeelandia and established Dutch control over the whole colony. On 17 February 2005 the leaders of Barbados and Suriname signed...
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    The Recapture of Fort Zeelandia or the Seizure of Fort Zeelandia was a minor military action on 13 October 1667 at the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War...
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  • Museum)- General history and culture museum of Suriname, located in Fort Zeelandia, Abraham Crijnssenweg 1, Paramaribo. Surinamese Rum House - Small museum...
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    dictatorship of Bouterse. These 15 men were rounded up and taken to Fort Zeelandia (the then headquarters of Bouterse) where they were tortured and killed...
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    2021. "Geschiedenis DNA". National Assembly of Suriname (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 March 2021. "Fort Zeelandia". City of Paramaribo (in Dutch). Retrieved 6...
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    The colonial period was brought to an end after the 1662 siege of Fort Zeelandia by Koxinga's army who promptly dismantled the Dutch colony, expelled...
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    Abraham Crijnssen (category History of Suriname)
    to Suriname with three ships. Despite the fact that the Treaty of Breda (1667) had given Surinam to the Dutch, the English had retaken Fort Zeelandia (Fort...
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    Nova Zeelandia, and after leaving 50 men to hold it, he proceeded up the Essequibo and occupied Kyk-Over-Al with 20 men.[citation needed] By 1672, Fort Kyk...
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  • Surendre Rambocus (category People murdered in Suriname)
    themselves the National Liberation Council. The plan was to attack Fort Zeelandia, the headquarters of Bouterse, with a tank, however Lachman, a member...
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    Schanskop, Pretoria, ZA Fort Wilhelmus, New Jersey, USA Fort Wonderboompoort, Pretoria, ZA Fort Zeelandia, SUR Kasteel de Goede Hoop, Western Cape, ZA Kievits...
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    taken to Paramaribo where he was tortured and tried. Colin was taken to Fort Zeelandia to be hung, but died or vanished using black magic, before his sentence...
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    Surinaams Museum (category Museums in Suriname)
    at Abraham Crijnssenweg 1 in Fort Zeelandia, Paramaribo, Suriname. The Surinaams Museum is located inside Fort Zeelandia, the site where British and Dutch...
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    Eiland: Large Island. In the Surinamese capital of Paramaribo, the Dutch Fort Zeelandia still stands today. The city itself also have retained most of its old...
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    Eddy Hoost (category Government ministers of Suriname)
    imprisoned in Fort Zeelandia, while Rambocus and Sheombar were transferred from the Memre Boekoe barracks, Santo Boma prison to Fort Zeelandia. An undisclosed...
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  • Invasion of Surinam (1667) (category History of Suriname)
    Crijnssen renamed the town of Paramaribo as Nieuw-Middelburg and Fort Willoughby as Fort Zeelandia. To transport the significant amount of sugar collected as...
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  • armed with 80 guns of various sizes and guarding Paramaribo itself, Fort Zeelandia, armed with 10 heavy guns. In order to secure the capital, the British...
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    capital and largest city of Suriname, has a Fort Zeelandia, the former Fort Willoughby during British colonization. Fort Zeelandia was a fortress built over...
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    Dési Bouterse (category National Democratic Party (Suriname) politicians)
    were connected with the coup attempt on 11 March 1982, were brought to Fort Zeelandia (then Bouterse's headquarters), where they were tortured and shot dead...
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    materials. Fort Zeelandia Independence Square (House Du Plessis) Independence Square (Ministry of Finance) Presidential Palace of Suriname Waterkant St...
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    Fred Derby (category Members of the National Assembly (Suriname))
    investigation into these events, and he told what had happened to him in Fort Zeelandia. Derby was born in the district of Para, on the site of a former plantation...
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