Cape Town is the second largest city in South Africa and one of the nation’s cultural and economic centers. Before the arrival of Europeans, the area was inhabited by San and …

2012年3月28日 · Land was sighted on 5 April 1652 and the ships docked the next day. Within a week of the arrival of the three ships, work had begun on the Fort of Good Hope. The aim was …

The area fell out of regular contact with Europeans until 1652, when Jan van Riebeeck and other employees of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, …

The Cape settlement was built by them in 1652 as a re-supply point and way-station for United East India Company vessels on their way back and forth between the Netherlands and Batavia …

2023年9月23日 · On April 6, 1652, Jan van Riebeeck arrived at the Cape at the head of a fleet of five ships. The Dromedaris and the Goede Hoop were present at the landing, while the Reijger …

2011年2月6日 · Jan van Riebeeck, who founded the first colony at Cape Town in 1652, was an official of the Dutch East India Company. The Dutch marked their permanence by building a …

2024年8月19日 · The first decade of Dutch settlement at what later became known as Cape Town, 1652–62, is a well-known history.1 Extracts within several chapters of Richard Elphick …

Jan van Riebeeck was a Dutch colonial administrator who founded (1652) Cape Town and thus opened Southern Africa for white settlement. Van Riebeeck joined the Dutch East India …

2025年1月17日 · The Dutch arrived at the Cape (southernmost Africa) in April 1652 to establish a permanent station to replenish ships sailing between Europe and the East. We use the Dutch …

2002年4月4日 · Jan van Riebeeck arrives in Table Bay in April 1652. Painting by Charles Bell (1813-1882) The first Europeans known to have climbed Table Mountain were Portuguese …