Constructed in the late 17th century by the Dutch East India Company, the Castle of Good Hope acted as the center of colonial Cape Town's administration and armed forces.

The mighty Dutch East India Company that brought porcelain, ... then east around the Cape of Good Hope and across thousands of miles of Indian Ocean, arriving at the Indonesian island of Java.

Descendants of this population, who mixed with Europeans and other Asians, came to be known as Cape Malays. Founded in 1652 by the Dutch East India Company in what is now Cape Town, South Africa ...

Amsterdam - Four hundred years ago today (Wednesday) the Dutch East India Company was established by ambitious shipping merchants tired of losing out on the booming Asian spice trade dominated by the ...

RICHMOND, VA—The Dutch East India Company established a small settlement at what is now Cape Town in 1652. The initial purpose of the settlement was to provide a rest stop and supply station for ...

Bo-Kaap still contains the largest concentration of pre-1850 architecture in South Africa. Modern Cape Town developed from the colony set up at Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch who brought many slaves ...

In 1602, the United East India Company of the Netherlands was formed and given permission by the Dutch government to trade in the East Indies including India.

On 25 March 1647 – five years before the Dutch East India Company, Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) in Dutch, had established the Cape Town settlement just north of the Cape of Good Hope ...

The sinking of the São José two days after Christmas in 1794 marked the end of a bad year for the slave trade at the Cape of Good Hope. In April that year, a second vessel, the French ship ...

The East India Company’s charter of incorporation, dated 31 December, 1600, provided the Company with a monopoly of all English – and later British – trade East of the Cape of Good Hope.

A convoy of East Indiamen had left India and was approaching the Cape of Good Hope. The weather was unsettled and the Ganges had been letting in water. The crew were monitoring the leak.

A maritime observation that led to the mapping of West Australia's south-west cape is being celebrated 400 years on, highlighting the story of a Dutch trading ship that was blown off course.