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Dutch Brazil ( Dutch: Nederlands-Brazilië ), also known as New Holland ( Dutch: Nieuw-Holland ), was a colony of the Dutch Republic in the northeastern portion of modern-day Brazil, controlled from 1630 to 1654 during Dutch colonization of the Americas. The main cities of the colony were the capital Mauritsstad (today part of Recife ...
Brazil—Netherlands relations refers to the bilateral relationship between Brazil and the Netherlands.Brazil has an embassy in The Hague and a consulate in Amsterdam, and the Netherlands is represented by an embassy in Brasília and consulates in Belém, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Manaus, Natal, Porto Alegre, Recife, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, São Paulo and Vila Velha.
Nicolaes Visscher 's map shows the siege of Olinda and Recife in 1630. [1] The Dutch invasions in Brazil, ordered by the Dutch West India Company (WIC), occurred during the 17th century. [2] Considered the biggest political-military conflict in the colony, the invasions were centered on the control of sugar and slave supply sources.
The ING Group ( Dutch: ING Groep) is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam. Its primary businesses are retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, wholesale banking, private banking, asset management, and insurance services.
Introduction. To fully understand the peculiarities of the history of the system of public finance, and that of the closely related system of private (international) finance and banking of the Dutch Republic, one has to view it in the context of the general history of the Netherlands and of its institutions, and of the general Economic History of the Netherlands (1500–1815).
The foreign policy of the Netherlands is based on four basic commitments: to the Atlantic cooperation, to European integration, to international development and to international law. While historically the Kingdom of the Netherlands was a neutral state, since 1945 it has become a member of NATO , the United Nations , the European Union and many ...
Treaty between the Netherlands and the United States of Brazil, establishing the border between Brazil and the Colony of Surinam. The Treaty of Limits was a 1906 treaty between Brazil and the Netherlands which established the international boundary between Brazil and the Dutch colony of Suriname. The treaty defined the border as being.
The Dutch Golden Age ( Dutch: Gouden Eeuw [ˈɣʌudə (n) ˈeːu]) was a period in the history of the Netherlands which roughly lasted from 1588, when the Dutch Republic was established, to 1672, when the Rampjaar occurred. During this period, Dutch trade, scientific developments, art and overseas colonisation was among the most prominent in ...