Nederlandse Maagdeneilanden (Dutch Virgin Islands)
1625–1680
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Coat of arms
Status
Colony of the Dutch Republic
Common languages
Dutch, Negerhollands
Religion
Dutch Reformed
History
• Dutch West India Company fort established on Saint Croix
1625
• Dutch expelled from Saint Croix by British
1650
• Saint Thomas post established
1657
• Danish West India Company takes possession of Saint Thomas
1672
• Disestablished
1680
Currency
Gulden (WIC)
Succeeded by
British Virgin Islands
Danish West Indies
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The Dutch Virgin Islands is the collective name for the enclaves that the Dutch West India Company had in the Virgin Islands. The area was ruled by a director, whose seat was not permanent. The main reason for starting a colony here was that it lay strategically between the Dutch colonies in the south (Netherlands Antilles, Suriname) and New Netherland. The Dutch West India Company was mainly affected by the competition from Denmark, England and Spain. In 1680 the remaining islands became a British colony.
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