List of Dutch East India Company trading posts and settlements
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The following were trading posts owned by the Dutch East India Company, presented in geographical sequence from west to east:
Africa
Saint Helena
South Africa
- Cape of Good Hope (Cape Colony): 1652-1806
Mozambique
Jan. 1721 - 23 December 1730.
- Delagoa Bay: Fort Lydsaamheid (Jan. 1721 - 23 December 1730.)
Madagascar
- Antongil Bay: 1641/2 factory - 1646/7
Mauritius
Mauritius (1638-1658/1664-1710)
Middle East
South Asia
Bangladesh
India
Konkan (northern part of western coast of India)
Malabar (southern part of western coast of India)
- Veeramala Hills, Cheruvathur (ca. 1701-?)
- Cannanore (1663-1790) (taken from Portugal)
- Ponnani (ca. 1663)
- Cranganore or Cranganor (Kodungallor) (1662) (taken from Portugal)
- Cochin de Cima (Pallippuram, Ernakulam) (1661) (taken from Portugal)
- Cochin, Cochin de Baixo or Santa Cruz (1663) (taken from Portugal)
- Purakkad (ca. 1680-1750)
- Kayamkulam (ca. 1645)
- Quilon (Kollam) (1661) (taken from Portugal)
Coromandel (eastern coast of India)
- Golkonda (1662-ca. 1733)
- Bimilipatnam (1687-1795/1818-1825) to the English; now Bheemunipatnam
- Jaggernaikpoeram (1734-1795/ 1818-1825) to the English; now Kakinada
- Daatzeram (1633-1730); now Draksharamam
- Nagelwanze (1669-1687); now Nagulavancha
- Palikol (1613-1781/1785-1795/1818-1825) to the English; now Palakol, Palakollu, or Palacole.
- Masulipatnam (1605-1756)
- Petapoeli (1606-1668); now Nizampatnam
- Paliacatta (1610-1781/1785-1795/1805-1825) to the English; now Pulicat
- Sadras (1654-1757/1785-1795), conquered by the British 1818
- Tierepopelier (1608-1625); now Thirupathiripuliyur or Tirupapuliyur
- Tegenapatnam, Kudalur (1608-1758); now Cuddalore
- Porto Novo (1608-1825 [1 June]) to the English; now Parangipettai
- Negapatnam (1658-1781) to the English.
- Tuticorin or Tutucorim (1658); now Thoothukudi
- Travancore
Bengal
- Pipeli (1627-1635)
- Baleshwar (1675-?)
- Patna
- Chhapra
- Cossimbazar
- Malda
- Mirzapore
- Murshidabad (1710-1759)
- Rajmahal
- Chinsura
Sri Lanka
Far East
Burma
Arakan
- Mrohaung (1610-1665)
Martaban
- Martaban (1660-?), lasted only for a few years; now Mottama
Thailand (Siam)
- Ayutthaya, main quarter, 1613-1767
- Patani (Pattani), trading house, 1602-1623
- Sangora (Songkhla), trading house, 1607-1623
- Ligor (Ligoor, now Nakhon Si Thammarat), trading house, ca. 1640-1756
Malaysia
- Malacca (1641-1824)
Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)
Governments (Gouvernementen)
Commandments (Commandementen)
Residencies (Residenten)
Areas under a Opperhoofd
Vietnam (Tonkin)
- Thǎng Long, (comptoir; 1636 - 1699)
- Hội An (comptoir; 1636 - 1641)
Taiwan
- Anping (Fort Zeelandia)
- Tainan (Fort Provincia)
- Wang-an, Penghu, Pescadores Islands (Fort Vlissingen; 1620-1624)
- Keelung (Fort Noord-Holland, Fort Victoria)
- Tamsui (Fort Antonio)