Demerara

Demerara was from 1752 to 1814 a Dutch colony in South America. She was part of Essequibo, Demerara and Essequibo also called. As a collective term for the Dutch colonies on the northern coast of South America the term Dutch Guiana was used.

Demerara is now a region in Guyana and there still contained in the name of the administrative units Demerara- Mahaica, Essequibo Islands-West Demerara and Berbice Upper Demerara. The region is named after the river Demerara, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean at Beterverwagting.

Demerara was the birthplace of Sir James Douglas (1803-1877), the British governor of Vancouver Iceland and the province of British Columbia. Furthermore, came from here John Cunningham (1885-1962), British Admiral and First Sea Lord.

Demerara is also the name for the Demerara sugar, a particular variety of cane sugar.

Angola | Berbice | Ceylon | Dejima ( leasehold ) | Demerara | Essequibo | Formosa | Fort Amsterdam | Fort Batensteyn | Fort Lydsaamheid | Fort Nassau | Cape Colony | Capes Verde (Senegal ) | Maldives | Mauritius | New Amstel | Dutch Brazil | Dutch Guiana | Dutch East Indies | Dutch Virgin Islands | New Netherland | Sao Tome | St. Helena | Suriname | vertices on the Gold coast | Dutch possessions in South Asia | Tobago

Former colonies, today part of the Netherlands: Aruba | Curacao | Sint Maarten | Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba ( the BES islands )

• Dutch colonial history
• History ( Guyana)