Goeree-Overflakkee
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Goeree-Overflakkee is a delta island and an administrative municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands, with a population of 50,589. It is the largest island by land area in the Netherl
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Jan van Os, 1776
Reformed Church at Nieuwe-Tonge
Lighthouse at Goedereede
Gorée
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Île de Gorée is one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, Senegal. It is an 18.2-hectare island located two kilometres at sea from the main harbour of Dakar, famous as a destinatio
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…Annemarieke van Rumpt (born 1980 in Middelharnis) a rower, bronze medallist with the Dutch eights in the 2004 Summer Olympics The island of Gorée in Senegal, notorious in the 18th century as a center for the slave trade, got its name from the Dutch Goeree at the time when it was ruled by the…
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Drawing of the castle, fort and harbor of Gorée from the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem.
The Dutch established the forts of Nassau (1628) and Orange (1639). Coloured engraving, Holland, 17th century
British capture of Gorée during the Seven Years' War, 29 December 1758