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The first Europeans to reach the area were the Spanish in 1499 but it was the British who established a colony in 1650. At the peace of Breda (1667) between Great Britain and the United Netherlands, the area known as Suriname was assigned to the Netherlands in exchange for the colony of New Netherland in North America. This was confirmed by the treaty of Westminster of Feb. 1674. Suriname was twice in British possession during the Napoleonic Wars in 1799–1802 (when it was restored to the Batavian Republic at the peace of Amiens) and 1804–16, when it was returned to the Netherlands.
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Further Reading
Dew, E. M, Trouble in Suriname, 1975–1993. New York, 1995
Hoette, R. A. L., Suriname [Bibliography]. Oxford and Santa Barbara (CA), 1990
National statistical office: Algemeen Bureau voor de Statistiek, POB244, Paramaribo
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Turner, B. (1999). Suriname: Republic of Suriname. In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook 2000. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271289_237
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