Map of Suriname, Oldest known map of Suriname, by J Ottens, founded in 1627 by Abraham van Pere, possibly a member of a Portuguese Jewish refugee family, based on Mogge's map of 1671 marking the "joods Dorp en Sinagoge" (Jew's town and synagogue) and many Jewish plantation owners; Suriname
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