Nieuw Amsterdam is a decrepit town in Suriname, situated east of the capital Paramaribo in the Commewijne district. The town has about 1200 inhabitants, whom mostly are of Javanese and Hindustani origin. Colonial style cottages, Waterkant, Paramaribo. ... Commewijne is a district of Suriname, located on the right bank of the Suriname River. ... The approximately 90 million Javanese form the largest ethnic group in Indonesia. ... The word Hindustani is an adjective used to denote a connection to India, or, more precisely, the historical region that encompasses Northern India, Pakistan, and nearby areas. ...
New Amsterdam (Dutch: NieuwAmsterdam) was the name of the 17th century town which grew outside of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in the New Netherland territory (1614–1674) which was situated between 38 and 42 degrees latitude as a provincial extension of the Dutch Republic since 1624.
The 1625 date of the founding of New Amsterdam is now commemorated in the Official Seal of the City of New York (formerly, the year on the seal was 1664, the year of the provisional Articles of Transfer, ensuring freedom of religion, negotiated with the English by Petrus Stuyvesant and his council).
The New Amsterdam city was subsequently renamed New York, after the Duke of York (later King James II) — brother of the English King Charles II — who had been granted the lands with the kingly stroke of an armchair pen (similar to the Spanish claim to the entire western hemisphere).
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