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Suriname (Dutch colony)

Kolonie Suriname
Dutch colony
1667–1954


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Suriname in 1954
Capital Fort Zeelandia
Languages Dutch
Religion Dutch Reformed
Political structure Colony
Governor
 •  1668-1669 Abraham Crijnssen
 •  1683-1688 Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck
 •  1689-1696 Johan van Scharphuizen
 •  1827-1828 Johannes van den Bosch
 •  1902-1905 Cornelis Lely
History
 •  Capture of Surinam 26 February 1667
 •  Proclamation of the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands 15 December 1954
Succeeded by
Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands)


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Surinam was a Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas, neighboured by the equally Dutch colony of Berbice to the west, and the French colony of Cayenne to the east. Surinam was a Dutch colony from 26 February 1667, when Dutch forces captured Francis Willoughby's English colony during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, until 15 December 1954, when Suriname became a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The status quo of Dutch sovereignty over Surinam, and English sovereignty over New Netherland, which it had conquered in 1664, was kept in the Treaty of Breda of 31 July 1667, and again confirmed in the Treaty of Westminster of 1674.

After the other Dutch colonies in the Guianas, i.e., Berbice, Essequibo, Demerara, and Pomeroon, were lost to the British in 1814, the remaining colony of Surinam was often referred to as Dutch Guiana, especially after 1831, when the British merged Berbice, Essequibo, and Demerara into British Guiana. As the term Dutch Guiana was used in the 17th and 18th to refer to all Dutch colonies in the Guianas, this use of the term can be confusing (see below).


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