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Bookmark or Share- East Indies | Trade Routes, Spice Islands, ColonialismThe most restrictive and best-known use is as a synonym for the islands that now constitute the Republic of Indonesia (formerly known as the Netherlands Indies, or Dutch East Indies); these include the Greater Sunda Islands (Borneo, Celebes, Java, and Sumatra), the Lesser Sunda Islands (stretching eastward from Bali to Timor), the Moluccas, and ...
- A Brief History of the Dutch East Indies – Part 1.The Dutch East Indies (c. 1600 – 1942) was part of a vast Dutch trading empire (Nederlands-koloniale Rijk) which stretched across the world. In the 1400s- 1600s CE, the Spanish, (including Columbus), Portuguese, Arab, English and Dutch traders were all keen to exploit the natural resources of islands in the south-east Asian archipelago and ...
- Dutch East Indies - WikipediaThe Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch: Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda), was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.
- Dutch East India Company - WikipediaThe "United East India Company", or "United East Indies Company" (also known by the abbreviation "VOC" in Dutch) was the brainchild of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, the leading statesman of the Dutch Republic. Amsterdam VOC headquarters.
- East Indies - U.S. Army Center of Military HistoryEast Indies 1 January-22 July 1942 ... To exploit their beachheads, the Japanese would need to use the two major east-west roads the Dutch had built. The northern route ran between five and fifteen miles inland from Bantam Bay on the north coast through Tangerang to Batavia. The southern route, roughly thirty miles inland, started on the west ...
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