John Gabriel Stedman wrote an account of his five year experience in this place, and a massacre occurred in this nation at the village of Moiwana in 1986 between the Junglecommandos of Ronnie Brunswick and the forces of Desi Bouterse.
John Gabriel Stedman wrote an account of his five year experience in this place, and a massacre occurred in this nation at the village of Moiwana in 1986 between the Junglecommandos of Ronnie Brunswick and the forces of Desi Bouterse. The Aluku and Kwinti peoples of this nation speak dialects of the creole language Ndyuka, and the Tumuk Humak Mountains stretch across its southeast. Francis Willoughby was the first European to establish a colony here, although its capture by Abraham Crijnssen resulted in it being transferred to another nation through the Treaty of Breda. The river which forms most of this nation's western border begins in the Acarai Mountains and creates King George VI Falls, while the Litani is a tributary of the river which forms its eastern border. Nestled between the Courantyne River on the west and the Maroni on the east, this nation's center is defined by its largest lake, the Brokopondo Reservoir or Professor ► van Blommestein Meer. Inhabited mainly by the descendants of South Asians and Maroons, for 10 points, identify this South American nation, a former colony of the Netherlands located between Guyana and French Guiana, with capital at Paramaraibo.
John Gabriel Stedman wrote an account of his five year experience in this place, and a massacre occurred in this nation at the village of Moiwana in 1986 between the Junglecommandos of Ronnie Brunswick and the forces of Desi Bouterse.
Republic of Suriname