New Netherlands (Dutch: Nieuw Nederland; Latin: Nova Belgica or Novum Belgium) was a seventeenth century settlement of the Dutch Republic. The state was brought about by the Dutch West India Organization (WIC) in 1621 to gain by the North American hide exchange. Occupants of New Netherlands were European pilgrims, Native Americans, and Africans imported as slave workers.
New Sweden was a Swedish province along the lower compasses of the Delaware Stream in America from 1638 to 1655. It was part of the Swedish endeavors to colonize the Americas. New Sweden was vanquished by the Dutch Republic in 1655 during the Subsequent Northern War.
