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region in Piedmont,
Italy Lange, a
tributary of the Oker in
Germany Lange Eylant, the
Dutch term for Long
Island Lang (disambiguation)
Laing (disambiguation)...
-
Dutch een
rodlich Eylande).
Dutch maps from as
early as 1659 call it "Roode
Eylant" or Red Island.
Historians have
theorized that it was
named by the Dutch...
- the
States General of the
purchase (by
Peter Minuit) of
Manhattan ("'t
eylant Manhettes",
groot 11000 morgen) from the "wilden" (wild ones). This area...
- "Staten
Eylant"
between Hokkaido ("Eso") and the
imaginary continent of "Companies Land" on Jan Janssonius's 1654 New and
Accurate Description of ****an...
- The coastline, indented, with
islands offs****, was
labelled "Gerrits
Eylant".
Wielder believed this to be the
first record of Edgeøya's
south coast...
- this end in May 1624, the GWC
landed 30
families at Fort
Orange and
Noten Eylant (today's
Governors Island) at the
mouth of the
North River. They disembarked...
- 1624 did the
Dutch West
India Company land a
number of
families at
Noten Eylant (today's
Governors Island) off the
southern tip of
Manhattan at the mouth...
-
Roosevelt Island and
Randalls and
Wards Islands, Van
Twiller purchased 'Noten
Eylant',
later called Governors Island from a
tribe of Can****e
Indians for two...
-
Jacob de
Gouwenaer on the
Orangienboom (Orange Tree)—named it Mr.
Joris Eylant after the
Dutch cartographer Joris Carolus who was on
board and
mapped the...
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counties to the north; a good part of Long
Island and
Coney Island (Conyni
Eylant in
Harrisse or
Konyne Eylandt in Castello) to the east;
Sandy Hook (Sant...
