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Fort Oranje (Senegal)
Fort Orange may refer to: * Fort Orange (New Netherland), now Albany, New York *Fort Orange (Bonaire) on the island of Bonaire *Fort Orange (Dutch Brazil) The Fort of Santa Cruz de Itamaracá (''Holy cross of Itamaracá''), popularly known as Fort Orange, is located on Itamaracá Island on the north coast of the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. In the context of the second Dutch invasions in Brazi ... * Fort Orange (Ghana) * Fort Orange (Gorée) on the island of Gorée off the coast of Senegal * Fort Orange (Sint Eustatius) in Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius * Fort Orange (Taiwan), now Tainan nl, Fort Oranje, link=no * Fort Oranje (Ternate), the administrative center of the Dutch East India Company before its transfer to Batavia * Fort Oranje (Sint Eustatius), a historic Dutch fortress in the Dutch Caribbean {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Orange (New Netherland)
Fort Orange ( nl, Fort Oranje) was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland; the present-day city of Albany, New York developed at this site. It was built in 1624 as a replacement for Fort Nassau, which had been built on nearby Castle Island and served as a trading post until 1617 or 1618, when it was abandoned due to frequent flooding. Both forts were named in honor of the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau. Due to a dispute between the Director-General of New Netherland and the patroonship of Rensselaerswyck regarding jurisdiction over the fort and the surrounding community, the fort and community became an independent municipality, paving the way for the future city of Albany. After the English reconquered the region they soon abandoned Fort Orange (renamed Fort Albany) in favor of a new fort: Fort Frederick, constructed in 1676. History In 1624, a ship with 30 Protestant Walloons (French-speaking people from what is today southern Belgium) landed in New Nethe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Orange (Bonaire)
Fort Orange (Dutch: ''Fort Oranje'') is a military fortification in Kralendijk, Bonaire. Originally built in 1639 as a nameless fort by the Dutch West India Company, it is the oldest structure on the island of Bonaire. The fort has never been used for its intended purpose. In 1816, it was rebuilt and named Fort Orange. The current lighthouse was built in 1932. History Fort Orange was built in 1639 after the island of Bonaire was conquered by the Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl .... The fort has four metre high walls with four canons. The original fort was open on the land side. In 1800, Bonaire was ignored by the British. In 1804, Bonaire was taken by the British who had landed their troops out of sight, and captured the fort without a fight from the ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonaire
Bonaire (; , ; pap, Boneiru, , almost pronounced ) is a Dutch island in the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. Its capital is the port of Kralendijk, on the west ( leeward) coast of the island. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao form the ABC islands, 80 km (50 miles) off the coast of Venezuela. Unlike much of the Caribbean region, the ABC islands lie outside Hurricane Alley. The islands have an arid climate that attracts visitors seeking warm, sunny weather all year round. Bonaire is a popular snorkeling and scuba diving destination because of its multiple shore diving sites and easy access to the island's fringing reefs. As of 1 January 2019, the island's population totaled 20,104 permanent residents, an increase of about 1,200 since 2015. The island's total land area is ; it is long from north to south, and ranges from wide from east to west. A short west of Bonaire across the sea is the uninhabited islet Klein Bonaire with a total land area of . Klein Bonaire has l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Orange (Dutch Brazil)
The Fort of Santa Cruz de Itamaracá (''Holy cross of Itamaracá''), popularly known as Fort Orange, is located on Itamaracá Island on the north coast of the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. In the context of the second Dutch invasions in Brazil, it was originally a small island (now lost) in front of the tip of the Southeast Itamaracá Island, where the bar dominated the southern channel of Santa Cruz. History Background: The Dutch fort It was started from May 1631 as a fortification campaign by Dutch forces (Barretto, 1958:133), under the command of Steyn Callenfels and received the name Fort Orange, in homage to the House of Orange-Nassau, which then ruled the Netherlands. It was garrisoned by a detachment of 366 men under the command of the Polish Captain Crestofle d'Artischau Arciszewski. This effectively resisted the Portuguese forces commanded by Conde of Bagnoli, who defeated (1632), withdrew abandoning its artillery: four pieces of brass brought from Arraial V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Orange (Ghana)
Fort Orange (Dutch: ''Fort Oranje'') was built as a trading post on the Dutch Gold Coast in 1642, near Sekondi in the Western Region of Ghana. It functioned as a lodge for a while during the 1670s and that was the original purpose for the fort before it was used as a trading post. The trading post was enlarged into a fort in 1690. It was joined by an English Fort Sekondi in 1682. It was sold with the rest of the Dutch Gold Coast to the United Kingdom in 1872, and now serves as a lighthouse. Because of its historical importance in trade between Europe and Africa, Fort Orange was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 along with several other castles and forts in Ghana. History Fort Orange was first constructed by the Dutch to serve as a lodge in the 1670s. It suffered attacks prominent among which was one by the Ahantas in September 1694. After these attacks, the fort was remodeled to become a fortress by 1704. Prior to this however, it served as a trading post. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Orange (Gorée)
Fort Orange ( nl, Fort Oranje) was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland; the present-day city of Albany, New York developed at this site. It was built in 1624 as a replacement for Fort Nassau, which had been built on nearby Castle Island and served as a trading post until 1617 or 1618, when it was abandoned due to frequent flooding. Both forts were named in honor of the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau. Due to a dispute between the Director-General of New Netherland and the patroonship of Rensselaerswyck regarding jurisdiction over the fort and the surrounding community, the fort and community became an independent municipality, paving the way for the future city of Albany. After the English reconquered the region they soon abandoned Fort Orange (renamed Fort Albany) in favor of a new fort: Fort Frederick, constructed in 1676. History In 1624, a ship with 30 Protestant Walloons (French-speaking people from what is today southern Belgium) landed in New N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorée
(; "Gorée Island"; Wolof: Beer Dun) is one of the 19 (i.e. districts) of the city of Dakar, Senegal. It is an island located at sea from the main harbour of Dakar (), famous as a destination for people interested in the Atlantic slave trade although its actual role in the history of the slave trade is the subject of dispute. Its population as of the 2013 census was 1,680 inhabitants, giving a density of , which is only half the average density of the city of Dakar. Gorée is both the smallest and the least populated of the 19 of Dakar. Other important centres for the slave trade from Senegal were further north, at Saint-Louis, Senegal, or to the south in the Gambia, at the mouths of major rivers for trade.''Les Guides Bleus: Afrique de l'Ouest'' (1958 ed.), p. 123 It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was one of the first 12 locations in the world to be designated as such in 1978. The name is a corruption of its original Dutch name , meaning "good roadstead". History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Orange (Sint Eustatius)
Fort Oranje is a historic fortress located in Sint Eustatius in the Dutch Caribbean. It is located in Oranjesad, the island's capital, on a cliff overlooking Oranje Bay. It was named after the House of Oranje, the royal family of the Netherlands. The fort was built by the Dutch in 1636, at the location of a previous fort built by the French in 1929. Its construction was commissioned by the Dutch West India Company. Like the island, the fort changed hands several times between the Dutch, English and French. It was rebuilt and renovated several times during the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, the fort is one of many protected buildings in Sint Eustatius. History The first European settlers on St. Eustatius were the French, who arrived from 1625 and 1629. They came from nearby nearby St. Kitts. In 1629, the French built a wooden fortress at the present-day location of Fort Oranje. The French abandoned the fort and the island due t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius
Oranjestad (; en, Orange Town) is a small town of 1,038 inhabitants; it is the capital of the island of Sint Eustatius in the Caribbean Netherlands. Geography Oranjestad is a historic harbour town which is divided into two main sections. Lower Town is a strip of buildings just above sea level along the waterfront, which borders on the island's safest beach. Lower Town includes dive shops, numerous colonial-era ruins, and the harbour. Upper Town has a restored historic core, and is also the island's main commercial and residential centre. History Historical sites The first colonist arrived between 1625 and 1629. Sint Eustatius produced sugar and cotton, but most importantly developed into a centre of the North American slave trade. In 1780, the island had an estimated population of 20,000 people including slaves. In 1781, during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, the island was captured and plundered by George Rodney. During the capture, all archives were destroyed. In 1786, it was h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Orange (Taiwan)
Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality in southern Taiwan facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and also commonly known as the "Capital City" for its over 200 years of history as the capital of Taiwan under Koxinga and later Qing rule. Tainan's complex history of comebacks, redefinitions and renewals inspired its popular nickname "the Phoenix City". Tainan is classified as a "Sufficiency" level global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. As Taiwan's oldest urban area, Tainan was initially established by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as a ruling and trading base called Fort Zeelandia during the period of Dutch rule on the island. After Dutch colonists were defeated by Koxinga in 1661, Tainan remained as the capital of the Tungning Kingdom until 1683 and afterwards the capital of Taiwan Prefecture under Qing Dynasty rule until 1887, when the new provincial capital was fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Oranje (Ternate)
Fort Oranje is a 17th-century Dutch fort on the island of Ternate in Indonesia. History Ternate is a volcanic island in Maluku (also known as "the Moluccas") and is the seat of the Sultanate of Ternate. The island was once , a commodity which allowed the Sultanate of Ternate to become one of the most powerful Sultanates in the Malay archipelago. The Sultanate of Ternate was in continuous conflict with the nearby Sultanate of Tidore. By the end of the 15th century the people of Ternate had adopted Islam as their official religion, mainly due to influence from Java. The first Europeans to arrive in Ternate were the members of an expedition led by Francisco Serrão. Serrão had been shipwrecked near Seram and was rescued by local inhabitants. Informed by local Ternatenese, Sultan Hairun brought the survivors to Ternate in 1512 and gave the Portuguese permission to build a fort. Construction of the fort began in 1522, but the relationship between the Portuguese and the Sultan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Oranje (Sint Eustatius)
Fort Oranje is a historic fortress located in Sint Eustatius in the Dutch Caribbean. It is located in Oranjesad, the island's capital, on a cliff overlooking Oranje Bay. It was named after the House of Oranje, the royal family of the Netherlands. The fort was built by the Dutch in 1636, at the location of a previous fort built by the French in 1929. Its construction was commissioned by the Dutch West India Company. Like the island, the fort changed hands several times between the Dutch, English and French. It was rebuilt and renovated several times during the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, the fort is one of many protected buildings in Sint Eustatius. History The first European settlers on St. Eustatius were the French, who arrived from 1625 and 1629. They came from nearby nearby St. Kitts. In 1629, the French built a wooden fortress at the present-day location of Fort Oranje. The French abandoned the fort and the island due t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
