Ah yes in the good old days when i could actually move my bipedal form, i used to hitch rides on the gypsy elephant herds all the way to New Netherland. Those were the days before i lost the lower half of my body to an aroused rhinoceros that mistook the raw panther guts i had draped over my testicles for male rhinoceros semen and raped my legs off.
The main city of New Netherlands was New Amsterdam. It was a Dutch settlement in the 17th century and was the seat of government of this colony. In 1665, New Amsterdam became New York after it was seized by the English. It was named for the Duke of York.
King Charles the second wanted to make New Netherlands an English colony. At the time New Netherlands was a Dutch settlement.
That is a colony.
New York was originally part of the New Netherlands colony.
New York
New Amsterdam
New Netherlands is the original settlement name for New York
The word for a new settlement in a country or region is colony
The soil the colony of New Netherlands was sandy.
It was a Dutch colony in North America.
Peter Minuit , in 1624, established New Netherlands.
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