[3] The most important economic aspect was spice trade and access to the east Asian area, including Imperial China situated farther to the east. Juli 1680. Saint Croix wurde erst später zu den Jungferninseln gezählt. As with Greenland, Denmark-Norway inherited the medieval Norwegian claims to the Faroe Islands as the successor state to Norway. After Norway was given to Sweden after the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark retained the Faroes as a condition of the Treaty of Kiel. List of Dutch colonial forts and possessions", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Danish_overseas_colonies&oldid=987943148, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox country or infobox former country with the flag caption or type parameters, Pages using infobox country or infobox former country with the symbol caption or type parameters, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "Empire" as a description of foreign policy, This page was last edited on 10 November 2020, at 04:09. Möglicherweise kaufte er diese Waren auch auf anderen Inseln. Of these, only two are still in existence, the Osu Castle, and the Christiansborg Castle, the latter of which used to be the residence of Ghanaian presidents. At its apex the colonies spanned four continents: Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. I think the danish westindies is a very interesting topic. Both were granted armed ships and full monopolies over trade around their settlements, to prevent better-armed, lower-priced, and better-quality Dutch goods from bankrupting the enterprise. Am 20. level 1. itsstifu. King Frederick attempted to replace it with a royal colony by sending Major Claus Paarss and several dozen soldiers and convicts to erect a fortress for the colony in 1728 but this new settlement of Good Hope (Godthaab) failed due to mutiny[5] and scurvy and the retinue was recalled in 1730.[2]. Medieval Greenland was a bishopric with 22 churches and 2 convents under the archdiocese of Nidaros. Etwa um 1000 drangen die Kariben auf die Inseln vor. Sie kamen um 300 n. Chr. 94% Upvoted. 1694 breiteten die dänischen Siedler sich auch auf Saint John aus. Diese Insel war damals weitgehend verlassen, nachdem Spanien die dortigen Ureinwohner vertrieben hatte. Dezember 1916 für den Verkauf Dänisch-Westindiens an die USA.[6].