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Dutch Formosa

1624 – 1662
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VOC (Dutch East India Company) trading colony on southwestern Taiwan, built around Fort Zeelandia to broker trade with Ming China and Tokugawa Japan and to displace Portuguese/Spanish commerce in the region; drew tens of thousands of Han Chinese settlers during its 38-year existence.

Besieged and conquered by Ming-loyalist warlord Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong) in the 1661-1662 Siege of Fort Zeelandia; the VOC briefly held a northern outpost at Keelung 1664-1668 before abandoning Taiwan entirely.

Borders in 1624 · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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