The tacitly understood boundaries of Greater East Asia include Japan, Manchukuo, Inner Mongolia, China, French Indo-China, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, The Netherlands East Indies. The next step ...

On 21 January 1922 John Whelan arrived from Java for the Irish Race Congress in Paris. It was held between 21 and 28 January, ...

Sadly, Cook was never able to learn and document Tupaia's navigational techniques, for Tupaia, and many of Cook's crew, died of malaria in the Dutch East Indies ... They had no maps, no sextants ...

The repatriation will include the “Lombok treasure,” a collection of 335 gold and silver items plundered by Dutch troops from the Indonesian island in 1894. Prime Minister Mark Rutte's apology ...

(Back then the island was known as Van Diemen's Land, for Anthony van Diemen, the governor-general of the Dutch East Indies at the time ... uncivilized places on the map. They sailed in ...

Nevertheless, this research method is not intended in any sense to diminish the multifaceted realities of the Dutch East Indies at the time. In fact, by exploring conditions from a Dutch colonial ...

You can see this area on your map when you zoom it all the way out ... Once you find the first set of islands in the East Indies, you'll be able to find ships from both the Dutch Merchant Company and ...

Jan Pieterszoon Coen became a flashpoint for protesters - he founded Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies A significant majority believe these monuments should stay, one survey suggests.

Mount Tambora is a volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa. In 1815, Indonesia was still a part of the Dutch East Indies ...

The Dutch presence in what was then the Dutch East Indies started in 1800 and ended when Indonesia proclaimed independence in 1945. Among the objects are four statues of Hindu and Buddhist deities ...