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Why does Curação, a Dutch colony, have a Portuguese name?

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As a son of the soil I've heard different stories about how the name Curaçao came about. We who are locals call it Kòrsou. Below are some possible explanations (from Wikipedia) about the name of my beautifull island. read more

According to some accounts, Portuguese sailors who were ill were left at the island now known as Curaçao. When their ship returned, they had recovered, likely cured from scurvy, probably after eating fruit with vitamin C. From then on the Portuguese referred to this as Ilha da Curação (Island of Healing). read more

Stable Dutch rule returned in 1815 at the end of the Napoleonic wars, when the island was incorporated into the colony of Curaçao and Dependencies. The Dutch abolished slavery in 1863, bringing a change in the economy with the shift to wage labour. read more

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