• Established as a Dutch West India Company colony
18 October 1745
• Raid on Essequibo and Demerara
24–27 February 1781
• Capture of Demerara and Essequibo
22 January 1782
• Peace of Paris
1783
• Colony of the Dutch Republic
1 January 1792
• Treaty of Amiens
27 March 1802
• Joined with Essequibo to form Demerara-Essequibo
28 April 1812
• Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814
20 November 1815
• Demerara-Essequibo merges with Berbice to become British Guiana
21 July 1831
• County of Demerara
1838
• Merged into the new regions
1958
Currency
Spanish dollar, Dutch guilder, British Guiana dollar, British West Indies dollar
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Essequibo (colony)
Demerara-Essequibo
Today part of
Guyana
^After 1803 it was a de jure Dutch colony but was a de facto British colony. Dutch Republic (1792–1795) Batavian Republic/Commonwealth (1795–1806) Kingdom of Holland (1806–1810) First French Empire (1810–1813) Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands (1813–1815) United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815)
^Great Britain (1781–1800) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1800–1802)
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2 Joes (or 44 Dutch Guilders), Colonies of Demerary and Essequebo (1830s), second issue.
Demerara (Dutch: Demerary, [ˌdeːməˈraːri]) is a historical region in the Guianas, on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana. It was a colony of the Dutch West India Company between 1745 and 1792 and a colony of the Dutch state from 1792 until 1815. It was merged with Essequibo in 1812 by the British who took control. It formally became a British colony in 1815 until Demerara-Essequibo was merged with Berbice to form the colony of British Guiana in 1831. In 1838, it became a county of British Guiana until 1958. In 1966, British Guiana gained independence as Guyana and in 1970 it became a republic as the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. It was located around the lower course of the Demerara River, and its main settlement was Georgetown.
The name "Demerara" comes from a variant of the Arawak word immenary or dumaruni, which means "river of the letter wood" (wood of Brosimum guianense tree).[1] Demerara sugar is so named because originally, it came from sugarcane fields in the colony of Demerara.
^Benn, Brindley H. (1962-06-30). "Guyana the Name". Thunder. Georgetown, Guyana. Archived from the original on May 1, 2008.
Demerara (Dutch: Demerary, [ˌdeːməˈraːri]) is a historical region in the Guianas, on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana...
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have particular names and characteristics, and are sold as turbinado, demerara or raw sugar. These have been centrifuged, and therefore can be said to...
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17th century. They founded the colonies of Essequibo and Berbice, adding Demerara in the mid-18th century. In 1796, Great Britain took over these three colonies...
mojito calls for gold rum instead of white rum, and raw sugar or demerara sugar. Demerara is a light brown, partially refined, sugar produced from the first...
was described as "Demerara, Essequibo, Berbice". In 1866, there were two archdeaconries: Hugh Hyndman Jones was Archdeacon of Demerara and that of Berbice...
names – first as Demerara (until 1899, but also during 1895), then as British Guiana until 1966 when Guyana became independent. As Demerara, they played in...
an Indo-Guyanese Muslim family in Leonora, a village in the West Coast Demerara region of Guyana. The child of two educators and one of two sons, Ali also...
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