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2 unusual facts about VOC


Fort Belgica

Originally built as a standard VOC four bastioned quadrilateral fort, by the mid seventeenth century earthquakes, the tropical monsoonal climate, and poor original construction materials and techniques had resulted in the structure becoming dilapidated.

Kediri, East Java

After the era of the Javanese kingdoms, Kediri declined as a major city and reduced to become a small rural settlement, and was later annexed by VOC as part of Dutch conquest of Java.


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Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest

Having learned about the British Macartney Embassy to the Qing court in 1793, he requested that the commissioners-general in Batavia send a VOC embassy to the court of the Qianlong Emperor for the celebration of his sixtieth year on the throne.

Andries Stockenström

In September 1781 Anders Stockenström sailed from Texel as a quarter-gunner aboard a VOC ship, ’t Zeepaard.

First Javanese War of Succession

In August 1705, Pakubuwono I’s retainers and VOC forces captured Kartasura without resistance from Amangkurat III, whose forces cowardly turned back when the enemy reached Ungaran.

François Caron

His language skills had developed; and in 1627, he traveled to Edo as the interpreter for the VOC mission to the shogunal capital.

Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff

En route to Batavia, Van Imhoff visited the Dutch colony in Cape Town, in the Cape Colony, where he discovered that Dutch settlers were penetrating increasingly further into the interior, and were losing contact with the VOC.

Hendrik Godfried Duurkoop

Duurkoop took up his duties as Opperhoofd or chief negotiant and officer of the VOC trading post or "factory" at Dejima island in the harbor of Nagasaki, Japan in November 1776.

History of Cape Town

The area fell out of regular contact with Europeans until 1652, when Jan van Riebeeck and other employees of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, or simply VOC) were sent to the Cape to establish a halfway station to provide fresh water, vegetables, and meat for passing ships travelling to and from Asia.

Jan Pieterszoon Coen

On the second trip he acquitted himself so well of his commission, and made himself so remarkable by the success of his practice of commerce, that in October 1613 was appointed accountant-general of all VOC offices in East Indies and president of the head office in Bantam and of Jacatra (Jayakarta).

Jan van Riebeeck

In 1643, Riebeeck travelled with Jan van Elseracq to the VOC outpost at Dejima in Japan Seven years later in 1650, he proposed selling hides of South African wild animals to Japan.

Kebumen Regency

In 1818, formerly in this location is built Dutch East India Company (VOC) office and to conquer Diponegoro war, there were many troops is come to the location and make the office as military concentration.

Kemayoran

The area that was known as Kemayoran was formerly a land owned by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) commander, Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin (ca 1629–96).

Leschenault, Western Australia

However, the first reported sighting of the coast was by Captain A.P. Jonk in the VOC Emeloort, who sighted land at 33°12' (most likely opposite the estuary from Australind) on 24 February 1658 while looking for the Vergulde Draeck but did not land.

Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri

His doctoral thesis, The Adaptable Peasant: Agrarian Society in Western Sri Lanka under Dutch Rule, 1740 1800 studied the impact of the Dutch East India Company(VOC) on western Sri Lanka's agrarian society.

Philippine College of Technology

PCT also started to offer one- and two-year Tech/Voc programs registered with TESDA: Hotel & Restaurant Management, Computer Programming, Computer Secretarial, Computer Technology, Automotive Technology, Electronics Technology, Health Care Services and more.

Port of Cape Town

The history of the port follows that of Cape Town, which traces its roots back to 6 April 1652 when Jan van Riebeeck of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) established a revictualing station there.

Redoubt Duijnhoop

It formed part of the defences of the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie 'VOC' replenishment station, which had been established under Jan van Riebeeck in 1652.

Solar inverter

Fill factor is defined as the ratio of the maximum power from the solar cell to the product of Voc and Isc.

Soul Enterprise

The new line-up of first-call musicians included some of Stockholm's best, many considered to be world-class musicians, such as Morgan Ågren (drums), Anders Johnsson (bass), Micke Wennergrund (drums), Lasse Pollack (keyboards), Magnus Lindgren (Saxophone), Micke Sörensen (trumpet), Mia Gejrot, Anna Sandberg-Häll and Tonja Hedtjärn (voc).

Sultan Records

2501 - Side B: "Red, the Be Bop Guy" (Red Saunders and his Band) which included an unannounced guest appearance by Buster Bennett - Musicians: Saunders (d, voc, ldr); George "Sonny" Cohn (tp); Joseph "Buster" Bennett (voc, as -1); Nat Jones (as); Leon Washington (ts); Porter Derrico (p); Mickey Sims (b).

The Chocolate Dandies

# 1930 - with Bobby Stark (tp), Jimmy Harrison (tb), Benny Carter (cl, as, voc), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Horace Henderson (p), Benny Jackson (g), John Kirby (b, tu) (Songs: "Goodbye Blues", "Cloudy Skies", "Got Another Sweety Now", "Bugle Call Rag" and "Dee Blues")

Travancore–Dutch War

The Travancore–Dutch War was a war between the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Indian state of Travancore (also known as Tiruvitamkur), culminating in the Battle of Colachel in 1741.

Wickeda

The Bulgarian version of "The Letter" has never been released, although the CD-Text of 1618 refers to it as "Pismo nov voc".


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