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Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten

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Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten (19 February 1755, Bergen op Zoom – 22 August 1801, Batavia) was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1796 until 1801. [1]

16 relations: Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Batavian Republic, Bergen op Zoom, Dutch East India Company, East Indies, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Hamengkubuwono I, Java, Johannes Siberg, Napoleon, Netherlands, Onrust, Sultan, Ternate, Willem Arnold Alting, Yogyakarta Sultanate.

Batavia, Dutch East Indies

Batavia was the name of the capital city of the Dutch East Indies that corresponds to the present-day Central Jakarta.

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Batavian Republic

The Batavian Republic (Bataafse Republiek; République Batave) was the successor of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.

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Bergen op Zoom

Bergen op Zoom (called Berrege in the local dialect) is a municipality and a city located in the south of the Netherlands.

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Dutch East India Company

The United East India Company, sometimes known as the United East Indies Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; or Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie in modern spelling; abbreviated to VOC), better known to the English-speaking world as the Dutch East India Company or sometimes as the Dutch East Indies Company, was a multinational corporation that was founded in 1602 from a government-backed consolidation of several rival Dutch trading companies.

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East Indies

The East Indies or the Indies are the lands of South and Southeast Asia.

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Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies

The Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (Gouverneur-generaal van Nederlands Indië) represented Dutch rule in the Dutch East Indies between 1610 and Dutch recognition of the independence of Indonesia in 1945.

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Hamengkubuwono I

Hamengkubuwono I, born Raden Mas Sujana (died 1792), was the first sultan of Yogyakarta.

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Java

Java (Indonesian: Jawa; Javanese: ꦗꦮ; Sundanese) is an island of Indonesia.

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Johannes Siberg

Johannes Siberg (1740–1817) was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1801 to 1805, during which time control of the Dutch Indies passed from the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to the Napoleonic Dutch State in the guise of the Batavian Republic (later superseded by the Kingdom of Holland) which took over much of Dutch territory and broke their monopoly of trade.

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Napoleon

Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Onrust

The Onrust (Restless) was a Dutch ship built by Adriaen Block and the crew of the Tyger, which had been destroyed by fire in the winter of 1613.

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Sultan

Sultan (سلطان) is a position with several historical meanings.

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Ternate

Ternate is an island in the Maluku Islands (Moluccas) of eastern Indonesia.

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Willem Arnold Alting

Willem Arnold Alting (11 November 1724 – 7 June 1800) was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1780 to 1797.

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Yogyakarta Sultanate

Yogyakarta Sultanate (Kasultanan Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat; Hanacaraka) is a Javanese monarchy in Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Gerardus_van_Overstraten

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