Vintage Map Of Dutch Guiana 1900s Editorial Image

The Harmsworth Encyclopaedia 1930s / 1940s - After the Napoleonic Wars in 1814, Britain gained control of the three colonies Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo west of the Courantyne River, which became British Guiana and then modern Guyana. The remaining colony, Suriname also called `Dutch Guiana`, remained under Dutch control until its independence in 1975. Dutch colonisation of the Guianas—the coastal region between the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in South America—began in the late 16th century.