In Asia The factory established on 20 September 1609 at
Hirado by the
Dutch East India Company (
Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC), next in 1641, as the Dutch
factorij was moved by order of the
shogunate thereto, on
Dejima (Desjima in purist Dutch, or
Latinized as Decima) Island, in
Nagasaki Bay. The trading post was maintained under the Dutch state after the 1795 end of VOC administration till on 28 February 1860 Dejima was abandoned.
In Africa • The Dutch
Fort Patience, was established by the
Dutch East India Company in March 1721 as a naval support point at
Maputo Bay near the current nation of
Mozambique's capital of
Maputo. It was subordinate to the
Dutch Cape colony. The Dutch abandoned the post on 27 December 1730. •
Mauritius, since 1638 a
Dutch colony under the
chartered VOC, was governed by an opperhoofd until it was abandoned on 17 February 1710. In September 1715, the island was claimed for France and renamed
Île de France by the passing French sailor
Guillaume Dufresne d'Arsel. ==See also==