Name two cities that were founded by the dutch.Include what they are named today
New York, Buffalo, and Boston
HiNew Delhi , Culcutta now termed as kolkata and Bombay are the cities found in a country named as India which besides in a Asia Continent.
Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh was the first European to land on Rottnest Island and name it, doing so after he sighted the quokkas which he thought were large rats. He thus named the island Rottenest, which has now become Rottnest, a variation of the Dutch for Rat's Nest.
Dutch sailor Willem de Vlamingh named both of these in 1697.He named the Swan River after the huge populations of black swans which he saw there.He named Rottnest Island after seeing the quokkas and the nests they made in the grassland and bushland. He thought they were huge rats, so he named the island Rottenest (now Rottnest) which meant rat's nest in Dutch.
Nearly all of the big ones now-a-days.
The area now called Brooklyn was first settled in by the Dutch in 1624. The village Breuckelen, was named after the province in Utrecht, Netherlands in 1646. This was authorized by the Dutch West Indian Corporation.
Homo erectus was first discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugène Dubois in Java, Indonesia in the late 1800s. Dubois believed the fossil belonged to an early human ancestor and named it Pithecanthropus erectus.
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The Von Dutch name is most know for making clothing. Von Dutch is a company named after Kenny Howard, an artist and pinstriper. Kenny Howard died in 1992. After his death, his daughters sold the name, and it is now a brand of clothing among other things.
Unnilpentium is now officially named as Dubnium (Db) after the Russian town of Dubna. It is not found in nature and is synthesized in the laboratory.
The capital of Norway was Trondheim, but it became Cristiania, now named Oslo.
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Indonesia was the Dutch colony known as 'Dutch East Indies' and had a colonial government before WWII, whereon it was invaded by the Japanese who destroyed most evidence of Dutch colonial rule. After WWII, the Dutch found it impossible to re-establish colonial rule and in 1949 recognised independence.