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New York was founded by the Dutch as New Amsterdam around 1624 as a trading post for fur trade, especially beaver pelts. In 1667 after the Second Anglo-Dutch war, the Dutch traded New Amsterdam with the English for present-day Surinam in the Caribean. The English then renamed New Amsterdam to New York, in honour of the English king's brother the Duke of York.

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