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- Danish_West_Indies abstract "The Danish West Indies (Danish: Dansk Vestindien) or Danish Antilles was a Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas with 43 square miles (110 km2); Saint John with 42 square miles (110 km2); and Saint Croix with 100 square miles (260 km2). The Danish West India Guinea Company annexed the uninhabited island of Saint Thomas in 1672 and St. John in 1675. In 1733, Saint Croix was purchased from the French West India Company. When the Company went bankrupt in 1755, the King of Denmark-Norway assumed direct control of the three islands. The Danish West Indies was occupied by Britain in 1802–1803 and 1807–1815, during the Napoleonic Wars.The intention of Danish colonization in the West Indies was to exploit the profitable triangular trade, involving the exportation of firearms and other manufactured goods to Africa in exchange for slaves who were then transported to the Caribbean to staff the sugar plantations. The final stage of the triangle was the exportation of cargo of sugar and rum to Denmark. The economy of the Danish West Indies was dependent on slavery. After a rebellion, slavery was officially abolished in 1848, leading to the near economic collapse of the plantations.In 1852, the sale of the increasingly unprofitable colony was first debated in the Danish parliament. Denmark tried several times to sell or exchange the Danish West Indies in the late 19th and early 19th century, to the United States and the German Empire respectively. The islands were eventually sold for 25 million dollars to the United States, which took over the administration on 31 March 1917, renaming the islands the United States Virgin Islands.".
- Danish_West_Indies capital Charlotte_Amalie,_U.S._Virgin_Islands.
- Danish_West_Indies capital Christiansted,_U.S._Virgin_Islands.
- Danish_West_Indies currency Danish_West_Indian_daler.
- Danish_West_Indies currency Danish_West_Indian_rigsdaler.
- Danish_West_Indies dissolutionDate "1917-03-31".
- Danish_West_Indies dissolutionYear "1917".
- Danish_West_Indies foundingYear "1754".
- Danish_West_Indies thumbnail Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg?width=300.
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- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageRevisionID "697162479".
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Abolitionism.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Adolph_Esmit.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Animism.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Bankruptcy.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Barbados.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Bergen.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Brandenburger_Gold_Coast.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink British_Leeward_Islands.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink British_West_Indies.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Caribbean.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Category:1754_establishments_in_the_Danish_colonial_empire.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Category:Colonial_government_in_the_West_Indies.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Category:Danish_West_Indies.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Category:Former_Danish_colonies.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Category:Former_colonies_in_North_America.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Category:Former_countries_in_the_Caribbean.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_the_Caribbean.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Category:Island_countries.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Category:States_and_territories_disestablished_in_1917.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Category:States_and_territories_established_in_1754.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Category:Virgin_Islands.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Category:West_Indies.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Category:World_Digital_Library_related.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Charlotte_Amalie,_U.S._Virgin_Islands.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Christian_IV_of_Denmark.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Christian_Leberecht_von_Prøck.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Christian_V_of_Denmark.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Christiansted,_U.S._Virgin_Islands.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Coat_of_arms_of_Denmark.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Colonialism.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Colony_of_Virginia.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Company_of_Scotland.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Danish_Board_of_Trade.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Danish_East_India_Company.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Danish_Gold_Coast.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Danish_Realm.
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- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Danish_West_Indian_daler.
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- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Danish_colonization_of_the_Americas.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Danish_rigsdaler.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Danish_ship_Den_forgyldte_Krone.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Danish_ship_Færøe.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink De_Casseres.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Denmark.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Denmark–Norway.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Erich_Bredal.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Erik_Smit.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Faroe_Islands.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Flotilla.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Frederick_III_of_Denmark.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Frederick_V_of_Denmark.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink French_Revolutionary_Wars.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink French_West_India_Company.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink French_West_Indies.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Gabriel_Gomez_(merchant).
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink German_Empire.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Greenland.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Guinea_(region).
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Henri_Konow.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink History_of_slavery.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Iceland_Company.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Indentured_servant.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Invasion_of_the_Danish_West_Indies_(1807).
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Johan_Lorensen.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Jørgen_Iversen_Dyppel.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Danish_monarchs.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Governors_of_the_Danish_West_Indies.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Governors_of_the_Leeward_Islands.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Margraviate_of_Brandenburg.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Monarchy_of_Denmark.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Napoleonic_Wars.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Netherlands_Antilles.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Packet_trade.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Panama_Canal.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Privateer.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Public_holidays_in_Denmark.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Religion_in_Africa.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Saint_Croix,_U.S._Virgin_Islands.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Saint_John,_U.S._Virgin_Islands.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Saint_Kitts.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Saint_Thomas,_U.S._Virgin_Islands.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Second_Anglo-Dutch_War.
- Danish_West_Indies wikiPageWikiLink Sir_William_Stapleton,_1st_Baronet.