Back مستعمرة سورينام Arabic Surinamo (nederlanda kolonio) Esperanto Colonia de Surinam Spanish Suriname (Hollandi koloonia) Estonian Alankomaiden Surinam Finnish 네덜란드령 기아나 Korean Suriname (kolonie) Dutch Surinam (kolonia) Polish Suriname (colônia holandesa) Portuguese Суринам (колония) Russian
Colony of Surinam Kolonie Suriname | |||||||||
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| 1667–1954 | |||||||||
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| Anthem: "Wilhelmus" (Dutch) "'William" | |||||||||
&sq=Russo Ukrainan Conflict&lang=en&file=File:Suriname_(orthographic_projection).svg) Suriname in 1954 | |||||||||
| Status | Colony of the Dutch Republic (1667–1795) Colony of the Batavian Republic (1795–1799, 1802–1804) Occupied territory of the United Kingdom (1799–1802, 1804–1815) Colony of the Netherlands (1815–1954) | ||||||||
| Capital | Paramaribo | ||||||||
| Common languages | Dutch (official) 11 other languages 8 native languages | ||||||||
| Head of state | |||||||||
• 1667–1702 | Willem III (first) | ||||||||
• 1948–1954 | Juliana (last) | ||||||||
| Governor General | |||||||||
• 1667 | Maurits de Rama (first) | ||||||||
• 1689–1696 | Johan van Scharphuizen | ||||||||
• 1949–1954 | Jan Klaasesz | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 26 February 1667 | |||||||||
| 31 July 1667 | |||||||||
• Proclamation of the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands | 15 December 1954 | ||||||||
| Currency | Dutch guilder, Spanish dollar | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Suriname | ||||||||
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Surinam (Dutch: Suriname), also unofficially known as Dutch Guiana, was a Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas, bordered by the equally Dutch colony of Berbice to the west, and the French colony of Cayenne to the east. It later bordered British Guiana from 1831 to 1966.
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