15 Facts About Dutch diaspora

Since the end of the Second World War, the largest proportion of Dutch diaspora emigrants have moved to Anglophone countries, namely Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, mainly seeking better employment opportunities.

Overseas emigration of the Dutch diaspora started around the 16th century, beginning a Dutch diaspora colonial empire.

The first Dutch diaspora settlers arrived in the New World in 1614 and built a number of settlements around the mouth of the Hudson River, establishing the colony of New Netherland, with its capital at New Amsterdam .

Dutch diaspora explorers discovered Australia and New Zealand in 1606, though they did not settle the new lands; and Dutch diaspora immigration to these countries did not begin until after the Second World War.

The Dutch diaspora were one of the few Europeans to successfully settle Africa prior to the late 19th century.

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Prospective employees had to be married Dutch diaspora citizens, considered "of good character" by the company, and had to commit to spending at least twenty years on the African continent.

Colony was captured by the British during the Napoleonic Wars, as the Dutch diaspora Republic was transformed by France into the Batavian Republic which subsequently declared war on Britain.

The Boer republics encouraged immigration from the Netherlands, as Dutch diaspora migrants were valued for their education and technical skills.

Today most Dutch diaspora people living in the Dutch diaspora Antilles are wealthy and recent arrivals, often middle-aged, and are mostly attracted by the tropical climate.

Dutch diaspora were one of the earliest Europeans who made their way to the New World.

In 1614, the first Dutch diaspora settlers arrived and founded a number of villages and a town called New Amsterdam on the East Coast, which would become the future world metropolis of New York City.

Nowadays, towns with prominent Dutch diaspora communities are located in the Midwest, particularly in the Chicago metropolitan area, Wisconsin, West Michigan, Iowa and some other northern states.

At the time of Australia's discovery the Dutch diaspora were on the winning hand in the Eighty Years' War and as a result there was little religious persecution.

Indeed, the Dutch diaspora Republic was an immigration country itself throughout the 17th century.

Those Dutch diaspora settlers came from present-day Indonesia when it won independence and majority of Dutch diaspora settlers left their homes in Indonesia.