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Abraham van Riebeeck, South African-Indonesian merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (born 1653)

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Abraham van Riebeeck

Dutch merchant and governor-general of the VOC (1653–1713)

Abraham van Riebeeck was a merchant with the Dutch East India Company and the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1709 to 1713.
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Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies

Dutch vice-regal title and position

The governor-general of the Dutch East Indies represented Dutch rule in the Dutch East Indies between 1610 and Dutch recognition of the independence of Indonesia in 1949.
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