There will be more sites on the web with interesting content.
Don't hesitate to drop me
a line and tell me where. Also if you find links are broken, please
tell, I check them once a month, but in the meantime a few can escape
my eye.
2003 will also be the "Hamel" year.
VOC Ships
A rebuilt of The Batavia, a VOC ship
Building the Duijfken
The
Maritime Museum in Amsterdam
The
Maritime Museum in Rotterdam
The
way a VOC ship was rigged
AND
a beautiful 17th century poster of a VOC ship
Two replicas of ships like the Sperwer
Duyfken
Halve
Maen
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General VOC history
DUTCH
PORTUGUESE COLONIAL HISTORY
A rich site with lots of interesting things about the settlements
of the Dutch and Portuguese.
History of Bontekoe in
Dutch
Sporen
van de VOC in archieven en bibliotheken - Traces of the VOC in archives
and libraries
De VOC in de Nederlandse Archieven
The Dutch East India Company
in South Africa
The
history of the VOC will be unveiled in the
factory of B@tavia
The
VOC and opium
Atlas
Mutual Heritage
Thinkquest
VOC a 17th century Giant
A site well worth visiting
Searching
for servants working for the VOC sailing for Delft
Tanap
a future database with the history of the VOC
Jan Pieterszoon
Coen of Hoorn (1587–1629)
Kritiek op
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
Lutjebroek Birthplace of Abel
Tasman
the Netherlands
Board of Tourism on the United East India Company (VOC) (English
and Dutch).
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Taiwan
'Taiwan as a milking cow of the Dutch VOC
(1624-1661)'.
A Taiwanese website under the name of 'Forgive, but never forget' tells us the history of the various occupations of Taiwan.
The Dutch on Formosa
Andre Engels
The VOC and Formosa
Treaty
between Koxinga and the Dutch Government
(capitulation document of Fort Zeelandia)
The same text taken from another
site
Introduction to the Dutch in Taiwan
The Zeelandia Diaries
An
Introduction to Taiwanese Historical Materials in the Archives of
the Dutch East India Company
Links
to Lionel Sluiters 180 links to the history of the VOC
Want
to buy VOC coins?
To
give an idea what the archives of the VOC contains
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Japan
Japan and the VOC .
A collection of pictures of the Octroi-area of the VOC, Dutch fluitships,
Formosa or Taiwan, fort Zeelandia
on Taiwan and Dutch Ambassadors in Japan (Montanus, 1669). an excellent
site about the Dutch connection with Japan
The
Deshima Diaries
Hollanders
in Hirado (pp. 49-53) by drs.W.Z. Mulder
Time line for foreigners (and Dutch) in Japan
Japanese
History
Travels
of the Dutch East India Company in the Japanese Archipelago
Chronology
to Japanese - Portuguese relations
(Some names refer briefly to Korean history)
Deshima
comes back to life
The
last Dutch Opperhooft
The
secret tales of the Nagasaki International Cemeteries
(the rest of the site is definitely worth reading)
Swaen,
a commercial map and document seller with maps and history of Japanese
maps as well
Restoration
of Deshima
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India
VOC
sites in India
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Indonesia
Indonesian view at their history
Another
site about Indonesian history (also in French)
A time line
of Indonesian history
Beginnings to 1500:
the Old Kingdoms and the coming of Islam
1500 to 1670: Great Kings and Trade Empires
1670 to 1800: Court Intrigues and the Dutch
1800 to 1830: Chaos and Resistance
1830 to 1910: Imperialism and Modernization
1910 to 1940: New Nationalism
1940 to 1945: the Second World War
1945 to 1950: the War for Independence
1950 to 1965: the Sukarno years
1965 to 1998: Orde Baru: the Suharto years
1998 to today: Reformasi
Bali
history
Another site on
the history of Bali
Dutch
East-Indies Information point
The
history of Indonesia
again another site
Where
the Dutch the main cause of the changes in Indonesian history?
a discussion which challenges the view that Indonesia would have changed
in the same way historically anyway
The
history of Java and the buildings in Jakarta (in Dutch)
Pramoedya
Ananta Toer a very controversial author in Indonesia
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Asia in general
Links to other good sites about Asian History
Andre
Engels Homepage of discoveries
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Maps
Korea through
western cartographic eyes
Mercator world of maps
New Netherland Project
Articles written in the Itinerario
European Journal of Overseas History
Oddens
bookmarks,
the greatest site if you want to search for maps
with more than 10.000 links to maps pages.
Historical
Atlas of the Twentieth Century
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Shri Lanka
The
Dutch in Ceylon
An account of their Early Visits to the Island, their Conquest, and
their Rule over the Maritime Regions during a Century and a half.
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Miscellaneous
The history of Shri Lanka under Dutch control
Chapter
8 (of an online book about the history of Shri Lanka)
Chapter
9
The history
of the VOC in Elmina
The site of the
Dutch Embassy in Ghana, with a lot of interesting history
The
history of the Dutch in South Africa.
If you
want any idea how 17th century Dutch cities looked like
Nederlanders
overzee
A site about the history of Dutch abroad, parts of this movie were
used for the Hamel Puryogi
A
collection of links to shipwrecks of the VOC
Sea
Shanties
Shanties are the work songs that were used on the square-rigged ships
The history page of Andreas K. Horlings
The
history of Windmills
Chronology
of the Portugal - Japan Relations
He(y)ndrick
Hamel was born in 1593 He was in so far family of our Hendrick that
the father of Hendrick; Dick Hamel and Heijndrick Hamel had the same
ancestor and belonged to the same generation. Their great-grandfathers
were brothers. Here you can find his name also mentioned as a patroon
in the New Netherlands (Now New York area)
If
you ever plan to visit Holland and want to visit a windmill, you can find here
where they are
links page