List of Dutch West India Company trading posts and settlements

This is a list of the trading posts and settlements of the Dutch West India Company (active 1621-1791), including chronological details of possessions taken over from the Dutch state in 1621, and for the period after 1791 when the Dutch government took over responsibility again.

The list runs in geographical sequence from north to south along the West African coast and from north to south through the Americas.

West Africa

Mauritania

  • Arguin (1633-1678 / 1724-1728)
  • Portendick

Senegal

Sierra Leone

  • Tasso Island (1664; destroyed by Admiral De Ruyter)

Liberia

Ghana (Dutch Gold Coast)

1611 1872

Togo

  • Petit Popo or Popo / (Anecho or Aneho) (1731–1760)

Benin (Dutch Slave Coast)

  • Great Popo(1680 - ?)
  • Ouidah (1670s. or 1687 / 1702 - 1724 or 1726)
  • Jaquim or Jakri (Godomey) Fort Zelandia (1726–1734)
  • Offra(1675–1691)
  • Appa or [[Ekp�]](1732–1736)
  • Savi
  • Allada or Ardra

Nigeria

West Central Africa

Equatorial Guinea

  • Annobon: 1641-164?/ 1665-16.. (to Portugal)

São Tomé

18 October 1599. - 20 October 1599./3 October 1641-16 October 1641, nowadays São Tomé and Príncipe

Congo

  • Loango (Boary) (1648/ -1686/ 1721-1726)
  • Ngoyo or G'oy

Angola

26 August 1641.- 21/24 August 1648.,

  • São Paulo de Luanda (Luanda): Fort Aardenburgh (26 August 1641.- 21/24 August 1648.) to Portugal.
  • São Filipe de Benguela (Benguela): (Sept. 1641- 1648) to Portugal
  • Pinda or Mpinda (Sonyo):-at the mouth of the Congo River (1648) to Portugal
  • Ensandeira island:(at the mouth of the Kwanza river) Fort Mols (1645/6-1648) to Portugal
  • Malemba (Cabinda)

North America

Settlements of the New Netherland colony, now in the present day U.S. states of:

Caribbean

South America

Brazil

  • Maranhao
  • Ceara
  • Rio Grande do Norte
  • Paraiba
  • Itamaraca
  • Pernmabuco
  • Alagoas
  • Fernando de Noronha
  • Bahia

Guyane

Suriname

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