• The Neo-Latin name Nova Zeelandia (Dutch: Nieuw Zeeland, lit. 'New Zeeland') honoured the Dutch coastal province of Zeeland ("sea-land"). Representatives...
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  • navigation. That this was Mercator's intention is clear from the title: Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata...
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    New Zealand (redirect from Nova Zelandia)
    1643, and Dutch cartographers subsequently renamed Tasman's discovery Nova Zeelandia from Latin, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. This name was later...
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  • British colony on modern Guyana's Essequibo River, originally known as Nova Zeelandia ("New Zeeland") The English translation of the short-lived Danish colony...
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  • Island". After the adoption of the name New Zealand (anglicised from Nova Zeelandia) by Europeans, one name used by Māori to denote the country as a whole...
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    to refer to the whole country. Dutch cartographers named the islands Nova Zeelandia, the Latin translation of the Dutch Nieuw Zeeland (after the Dutch province...
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    Estados. When that was shown not to be so, Dutch authorities named it Nova Zeelandia in Latin, Nieuw Zeeland in Dutch. The two major seafaring provinces...
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    entire colony settled here in 1621. Initially, the colony was named Nova Zeelandia (New Zeeland), but the usage of the name Essequibo soon became common...
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    1590s–1720s): including Nova Guinea (New Guinea), Nova Hollandia (mainland Australia), Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), and Nova Zeelandia (New Zealand)....
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    maps of the country. In 1645 Dutch cartographers changed the name to Nova Zeelandia in Latin, from Nieuw Zeeland, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. It...
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  • majority of its non-submerged land. Dutch explorers named the land Nova Zeelandia after the Dutch province of Zeeland, and British explorer James Cook...
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    already established in that area. Scott, in alliance with Caribs, seized Nova Zeelandia, and after leaving 50 men to hold it, he proceeded up the Essequibo...
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    Zealand originated with Dutch cartographers, who called the islands Nova Zeelandia, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. British explorer James Cook subsequently...
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    charts of much of Australia's coast. Based on the 1648 map by Joan Blaeu, Nova et Accuratissima Terrarum Orbis Tabula, it incorporated Tasman's discoveries...
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    maps of the country. In 1645 Dutch cartographers changed the name to Nova Zeelandia in Latin, from Nieuw Zeeland, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. Over...
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    of Kyk-Over-Al in the Essequibo River and established New Zeeland (Nova Zeelandia). After a new fort was established in 1616, the colony became known...
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    1590s–1720s): including Nova Guinea (New Guinea), Nova Hollandia (mainland Australia), Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), and Nova Zeelandia (New Zealand). Waka...
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  • regions: New Zealand – In 1645 Dutch cartographers renamed the land Nova Zeelandia after the Dutch province of Zeeland. British explorer James Cook subsequently...
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  • to New Zealand as Staten Landt, but later Dutch cartographers used Nova Zeelandia, in Latin, followed by Nieuw Zeeland in Dutch, which Captain James Cook...
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    first maps of the country. Dutch cartographers changed the name to Nova Zeelandia in Latin, from Nieuw Zeeland, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. It...
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  • depiction of New Holland. Hollandia Nova in the Kurfürsten Atlas is shown as it appears in Blaeu's world map of 1648, Nova et Accuratissima Terrarum Orbis...
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    A small town called Nieuw Middelburg was formed, and the fortress Nova Zeelandia was built to protect the small colony. In 1666, Pomeroon was occupied...
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    first maps of the country. Dutch cartographers changed the name to Nova Zeelandia in Latin, from Nieuw Zeeland, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. It...
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    than a hundred years. In 1645, Dutch cartographers renamed the land Nova Zeelandia after the Dutch province of Zeeland. British explorer James Cook subsequently...
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    spatulatis hispidis, pedunculis axillaribus, solitariis unifloris. F. Nova Zeelandia.’ Many authors since then have spelled the epithet spathulata instead...
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    (Jaffna) Galle Fort Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam, New Amsterdam, Commewijne Fort Zeelandia, Waterside, Paramaribo Landskrona Citadel Malmö Castle Varberg Fortress...
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    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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    Calamares, Madawaska, Pocahontas, Bridge, President Grant, Occidente, Zeelandia, Due d' Abruzzi, Re d' Italia and destroyers Little and Kimberly. Sixth...
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    Chenggong) captures the Dutch East India Company's settlement at Fort Zeelandia (now Tainan) on the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege, ending...
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    Dutch prize crews to transport and sell the slaves in Suriname, at Fort Zeelandia (Paramaribo). After the prizes returned from Paramaribo the commanders...
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