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Pennsylvania Dutch groups were actually from Germany. The word "Dutch" does not refer to the Dutch people, but to the German settlers, known as "Deutsch".

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After the 1628 Batavia disaster, two dutch sailors were left to die in Australia...or so everyone thought. A century later, British settlers found unusually light-skinned Aborigines in the area that suggest the two marooned sailors may have actually thrived instead.

What were the dutch settlers in south africa called?

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1. The first European settlement in the Connecticut Colony occurred in Windsor, and then in the Hartford and Wethersfield areas in 1633. The settlers were Dutch, having arrived from New Netherlands (present day New York). These settlements combined to form the Connecticut Colony in 1633, founded by Thomas Hooker.

2. Name cranberry is shorter version of the original name of the plant: "crane berry". Dutch and German settlers coined this name because of the light pink flowers whose petals twist backwards and together with stem create impression of head, neck and bill of a crane.

3. Wall Street is so named because an actual wall was built by Dutch settlers in the 17th century to keep out Native American tribes

4. Coney Island was originally named "Conyne Eylandt" by its Dutch settlers, which means "Rabbit Island"

5. The British held concentration camps for Boers (South African descendants of Dutch settlers) during the Second Boer War (1899-1902), where more than 26,000 women and children died due to the terrible conditions they were held at.

6. The origin of the bird "turkey" reflects much confusion. Native to North America, early settlers (thinking they were in Asia) thought it was from Turkey. The French call it poulet d'inde (chicken from India). Arabs call it dik roumi (Roman rooster). In Malay, it's a Dutch chicken ...

7. A core group of the first United States settlers first fled England to Holland because they were a controversial minority that the majority persecuted, then fled Holland to North America because - at the time - Dutch society didn't easily accommodate people with a different language or culture.

8. In 1621, the Dutch East Indian Trading Company killed, enslaved, or deported 14,000 out of the 15,000 natives of the Banda Islands. It then gave the land to Dutch settlers, and imported slaves. To control the nutmeg market.

9. The Lanape tribe's name for Manhattan was Manahachtanienk which translates to "place of general inebriation." They named it after Dutch settlers introduced them to alcohol while on the island.

10. Jan Janszoon, a Dutch pirate who became an Ottoman admiral, enslaved hundreds of Irish and Icelandic people, founded a pirate republic in Morocco and had a son who may be the first Muslim settler in America and is the ancestor of Vanderbilt family and president Warren G. Harding