State
Surinam
Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas
- This boundary
- 1667–1945
- Founded
- 1667
- Ended
- 1954
- Capital
- Fort Zeelandia
- Languages
- Dutch
- Succeeded by
- Suriname
Overview
Surinam (Dutch: Suriname), also unofficially known as Dutch Guiana, was a Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas and the predecessor polity of the modern country of Suriname. It was bordered by the fellow Dutch colony of Berbice to the west, and the French colony of Cayenne to the east. It later bordered British Guiana (modern-day Guyana) from 1831 to 1966.
Records (4)
- 1672 — Articulen ter onderhandeling met de boschneegers van Boven Sarameca en SurinameTreaty
- 1800 — Battle of SurinamBattle · United Kingdom ▸ Netherlands
- 1804 — Battle of SurinamBattle · United Kingdom ▸ Netherlands
- 1902 — Mariënburg UprisingRebellion
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