The 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vingboons produced a number of detailed maps of Ayutthaya (or Iudea ... Most of the Dutch prisoners were Royal Netherlands East Indies Army personnel and Dutch ...

1652 Map of Banda Islands by Jan Jansson ... Portrait of Jan Pietersz Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and 6. the memorial plaque listing the 40 Bandanese Muslims massacred by his order ...

The Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon ... In 1642, the Council of the Indies dispatched another explorer and merchant, Abel Janzoon Tasman on a voyage of exploration to little-charted areas east of the ...

They are known as omagari neko (bent-tail cats) or kagi neko and have their own society of admirers and even a dedicated Shinto shrine. Their tails come in varieties including hook-shaped at the ...

The proposal of the latter, in 1857, included the organisation of hourly observations at Batavia and the establishment of secondary stations at some places in the East Indian Archipelago ...

Because I am of Dutch East Indies descent, I have been called a monkey, a slave. At Radboud University in Nijmegen, an assistant professor has called both Jewish and non-Jewish students ...

Of Dutch East Indies descent, she co-authored the report Unsafe Spaces about antisemitism at Dutch universities, writes columns for De Limburger, and has published op-eds in NRC and Volkskrant.

The Koning Willem de Tweede was meant to do trading between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies, a former colony that’s now Indonesia. However, just before returning home, the crew picked ...

Sumatra only formally became part of the Dutch East Indies towards the end of the 19th century. That perspective worked its way into national consciousness in the wake of Indonesia’s ...

Posthumus provided a comprehensive history of Amsterdam's drinking culture, including the Netherlands' role in introducing coffee and tea to the world through the Dutch East Indies Company.

In fact, wine production has taken place in Belgium for at least 1,200 years, but came to an abrupt end when, in April 1815, the Tambora volcano erupted in the Dutch East Indies, triggering cold ...