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Populated places established by the Dutch East India Company

  • MauritiusIn 1507, Portuguese sailors blown off course from their route to India via the Mozambique channel landed on an uninhabited island.
  • Cape TownIn 1488, Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias arrived at the southern tip of Africa and named it Cape of Storms. He was the first European to reach this…
  • JakartaIn 1527, a Pasai-born military commander named Fatahillah drove Portuguese forces out of the coastal port known as Sunda Kelapa.