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{{Adoption PARoots}}[[Image: | {{Adoption PARoots}}[[Image:{{NewNethMap}}]][[Image:GezichtOpNieuwAmsterdam.jpg|thumb|right|275px]]'''New Netherland''' (Dutch: Nieuw-Nederland) was the former Dutch colony on the east coast of North America founded in 1614 or 1615. | ||
It included significant settlements in, or claims to, parts of what are now the states of [[New York|New York]], [[New Jersey|New Jersey]], [[Connecticut]], [[Delaware]], [[Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]], [[Rhode Island|Rhode Island]], [[Massachusetts]], and [[Maryland|Maryland]] (between Cape Cod and [[: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> | It included significant settlements in, or claims to, parts of what are now the states of [[New York|New York]], [[New Jersey|New Jersey]], [[Connecticut]], [[Delaware]], [[Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]], [[Rhode Island|Rhode Island]], [[Massachusetts]], and [[Maryland|Maryland]] (between Cape Cod and [[: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> | ||