François Valentyn or Valentijn (17 April 1666 – 6 August 1727) was a Dutch Calvinist minister, naturalist and author whose Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën ("Old...

Valentijn is both a masculine Dutch given name and a surname. It may refer to: François Valentijn (1666–1727), Dutch minister, historian and writer Jahri...

the ruler of Ternate. According to the more elaborated version by François Valentijn (1724) the future Sultan was the son of Kolano Marhum, the eighteenth...

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and the Dutch cleric François Valentijn in his comprehensive work Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (1724–1726). Rumphius and Valentijn drew from now lost manuscripts...

1712). Fallour's mermaid with additional details were described by François Valentijn in a 1726 book. The mermaid was 59 Dutch inches (duimen) long, or...

Islands descended. A more elaborate story is found in the work of François Valentijn, Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (1724). In the mid-13th century a number...

Ruler of 72 Islands, as related by the Dutch historian and geographer François Valentijn (1724). At this stage the Ternate sultanate was by far the largest...

in relation to Ternate and Tidore). According to the Dutch writer François Valentijn (1724), the Bacan kingdom was established in 1322. He mentions an...

Sulalatu'l-Salatina, that is referred to by Petrus Van der Vorm and François Valentijn in their works Collectanea Malaica Vocabularia ("Collection of Malay...

nativity according to Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën written in 1726 by François Valentijn. Some consider the story of Kullakotan to be mythical based on the...

to his wine estates (known as Constantia), where he died in 1712. François Valentijn visited his son Frans in March 1714. The estate was sold in parts...

against predators. The puffer was named in honor of Dutch naturalist François Valentijn (1666-1727). Canthigaster valentini organize themselves into harems...

(ruler) of Ternate to convert to Islam was Marhum. According to François Valentijn's account, Marhum was the son and successor of the seventeenth King...

named the place Tankoya, and the harbor Tancoia. The Dutch missionary François Valentijn named Takau Mountain "Ape Berg", a name that would find its way onto...

From Valentijn, Beschrijving van Groot Djava, ofte Java Major, Amsterdam, 1796. Ludwig Bachhofer, India Antiqua (1947:280) notes that Valentijn had been...

branches since 1999. List of rulers of Maluku Nuku Rebellion Spice trade François Valentijn (1724) mentions two early Tidorese Muslim kings, Nuruddin (c. 1343)...

was written down by the Dutch priest François Valentijn (1724), long after the demise of the sultanate. Valentijn relates that Jailolo was a strong kingdom...

Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719), a Dutch Golden Age painter and writer François Valentijn (1666–1727), a Dutch minister, naturalist and author; wrote Oud en...

drinking party, where the Dutch became rowdy, De Weert according to François Valentijn insulted the queen, and De Weert and all 47 Dutchmen accompanying...

history in Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën ("Old and New East-India") by François Valentijn was by Rumphius and they were close friends. The original manuscript...

Takau Tankoya, and the harbor Tancoia. In 1726, the Dutch missionary François Valentijn (華倫泰因/潘連單) named Takau Mountain "Apen Berg" (猿山), a name which would...

James Cook, the crew of the Dutch East Indiaman Barneveld, 1719, François Valentijn (1726). Though handsome and imposing he was a paralytic. Radama I...

for the Great South Land (1998:167). Arasaratnam, Sinnapah (1978). Francois Valentijn's Description of Ceylon. London: The Hakluyt Society. ISBN 0904180069...

Dayal's mother speaks out about the Portuguese injustices, from François Valentijn, Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (1724)....

includes at least 3,500 entries, including Charles III of Spain, François Valentijn and Albrecht von Haller. Levinus had two half brothers, Levinus Vincent...

purchases the natural history collection of Albertus Seba 1724–1726 – François Valentijn and George Eberhard Rumpf give the first accounts of birds-of-paradise...

Description of Ceylon (1726), Dutch scholar and Christian missionary François Valentijn quotes Seneca the Younger's (c. 4 BCE–65 CE) mentioning of the Tirukkural...

alluding to the name given to this species by the Dutch naturalist François Valentijn (1666-1727) in 1726, Japonfche Trompetter. When Johann Jakob Kaup...

mentioned by François Valentijn, a Dutch army cleric who served in the Dutch army in Ambon, Maluku in two tours, 1686-1994 and 1703–1713. Valentijn talked about...