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unusual facts about Nicholaas Geelvinck



Stabroek, Guyana

Stabroek was established by the French in 1782 under the name Longchamps on the Company's reserve and was named by the Dutch after Nicholaas Geelvinck (1732 — 1787), Lord of Stabroek, the then President of the Dutch West India Company in 1784.


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