Remembering the Dutch colonisation of Brazil

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	Remembering the Dutch colonisation of Brazil

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6-3-2007 2:55 PM

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brazil, colonialism, dutch, netherlands, commemoration, heritage

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<FONT size="2"><B>Brazil's history might be more frequently associated with Portuguese rule than Dutch, but for 25 years from 1630, the Netherlands controlled 1,000 miles of coastline in the north-east of the country. Today the two countries are keen to preserve the Dutch connection.</B>
</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6712169.stm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.bbc.co.uk/img/DFAD6FA5-3304-497C-883A-A887FD5D1B11" alt="Map of Brazil" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6712169.stm"><FONT size="2"> For 25 years from 1630, it was the Calvinist Netherlanders and not the Catholic Portuguese who held sway over this part of Brazil. 
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6712169.stm"><FONT size="2">The Dutchmen at the peak of their power set up the West Indies Company to trade in slaves from Africa and goods across the south Atlantic, and Brazil was their market. 
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<FONT size="2">They came, captured 1,000 miles of coastland and set up in business.
</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6712169.stm"><FONT size="2">But by 1655 the Hollanders were defeated and their language and culture disappeared from Brazil, keeping a foothold in South America only in Surinam to the north, which remains Dutch-speaking to this day.  
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