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{{stub}}== History == | {{stub}}== History == | ||
[[Image:New Nederland map.png|thumb| | [[Image:New Nederland map.png|thumb|left|200px|New Netherland colonial shore claims and significant settlements, 1614-1674]]'''New Netherland''' (Dutch: Nieuw-Nederland) was the former Dutch colony on the east coast of North America founded in 1614 or 1615. | ||
[[Image:GezichtOpNieuwAmsterdam.jpg|thumb|right|250px|View of Nieuw-Amsterdam by Johannes Vingboons, 1664]] | |||
It included significant settlements in, or claims to, parts of what are now the states of [[Portal:New York|New York]], [[Portal:New Jersey|New Jersey]], [[Portal:Connecticut|Connecticut]], [[Portal:Delaware|Delaware]], [[Portal:Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]], [[Portal:Rhode Island|Rhode Island]], [[Portal:Massachusetts|Massachusetts]], and [[Portal:Maryland|Maryland]] (between Cape Cod and [[Portal:Virginia|Virginia]]).<ref name="WNN">"New Netherland" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Netherland (accessed 4 November 2008).</ref> | |||
In 1654 [[New Sweden|New Sweden]] captured Fort Casimir from New Netherland in what is now [[New Castle County, Delaware|New Castle County, Delaware]]. The next year, 1655, the Dutch counter-attacked, conquered, and absorbed all of former [[New Sweden|New Sweden]], but granted it some autonomy.<ref>"New Sweden" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden (accessed 4 November 2008).</ref> | In 1654 [[New Sweden|New Sweden]] captured Fort Casimir from New Netherland in what is now [[New Castle County, Delaware|New Castle County, Delaware]]. The next year, 1655, the Dutch counter-attacked, conquered, and absorbed all of former [[New Sweden|New Sweden]], but granted it some autonomy.<ref>"New Sweden" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden (accessed 4 November 2008).</ref> | ||