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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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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    François Valentijn (1724), p. 136 François Valentijn (1724), p. 137 François Valentijn (1724), p. 136 François Valentijn (1724), p. 136 François Valentijn (1724)...
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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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    in relation to Ternate and Tidore). According to the Dutch writer François Valentijn (1724), the Bacan kingdom was established in 1322. He mentions an...
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    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...
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    Sulalatu'l-Salatina, that is referred to by Petrus Van der Vorm and François Valentijn in their works Collectanea Malaica Vocabularia ("Collection of Malay...
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    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...
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    against predators. The puffer was named in honor of Dutch naturalist François Valentijn (1666-1727). Canthigaster valentini organize themselves into harems...
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    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...
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    From Valentijn, Beschrijving van Groot Djava, ofte Java Major, Amsterdam, 1796. Ludwig Bachhofer, India Antiqua (1947:280) notes that Valentijn had been...
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    branches since 1999. List of rulers of Maluku Nuku Rebellion Spice trade François Valentijn (1724) mentions two early Tidorese Muslim kings, Nuruddin (c. 1343)...
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  • (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...
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    drinking party, where the Dutch became rowdy, De Weert according to François Valentijn insulted the queen, and De Weert and all 47 Dutchmen accompanying...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719), a Dutch Golden Age painter and writer François Valentijn (1666–1727), a Dutch minister, naturalist and author; wrote Oud en...
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    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...
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    James Cook, the crew of the Dutch East Indiaman Barneveld, 1719, François Valentijn (1726). Though handsome and imposing he was a paralytic. Radama I...
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    for the Great South Land (1998:167). Arasaratnam, Sinnapah (1978). Francois Valentijn's Description of Ceylon. London: The Hakluyt Society. ISBN 0904180069...
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  • Dayal's mother speaks out about the Portuguese injustices, from François Valentijn, Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (1724)....
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    includes at least 3,500 entries, including Charles III of Spain, François Valentijn and Albrecht von Haller. Levinus had two half brothers, Levinus Vincent...
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    purchases the natural history collection of Albertus Seba 1724–1726 – François Valentijn and George Eberhard Rumpf give the first accounts of birds-of-paradise...
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  • 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...
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    alluding to the name given to this species by the Dutch naturalist François Valentijn (1666-1727) in 1726, Japonfche Trompetter. When Johann Jakob Kaup...
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    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...
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