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- Visit new Dutch Ambassador for Angola
In the photo, from left to right: Yohana Wondimu (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Eline Hopperus Buma (NHF-PR), Mano (Africadelic.com), Oscar Hefting (NHF Director), and… Read more: Visit new Dutch Ambassador for Angola - Research Florian Herrendorf
The archival research of historian Florian Herrendorf is finished and in the next fase. His research on the Dutch period in Angola (1641-1648) focusses… Read more: Research Florian Herrendorf - Presentation preliminary survey “Dutch’ Colonial Fortifications in West Central Africa’
The New Holland Foundation presented the first report of the “Atlas of Dutch Presence in Angola” to Ambassador Isabel Resende Enconge. The publication is… Read more: Presentation preliminary survey “Dutch’ Colonial Fortifications in West Central Africa’
Atlas of Dutch West Africa
About the project
The New Holland Foundation presented the first report of the “Atlas of Dutch Presence in Angola” to Ambassador Isabel Resende Enconge. The publication is the first step to more activities, such as exhibitions and seminars, in the coming years.
This report comprises a preliminary survey of significant colonial fortifications during the decades of Dutch colonial involvement with West Central Africa. Scattered along the coast and on islands,these fortifications were located in the present countries of Angola, Congo, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Equatorial Guinea. During the zenith of Dutch colonial involvement (1641-1648) the Dutch West India Company (WIC) employed the designation “Southern District” (Zuiderkwartier) for this area, as opposed to the “Northern Quarter” (Noorderkwartier), which extended from Senegambia to the Bight of Biafra and was governed from Elmina. The Southern District was governed from the WIC headquarters at Luanda.
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