Fort Amsterdam (Thailand)

The Fort Amsterdam was a Dutch trading post in the Ayutthaya Kingdom .

Fort Amsterdam was established in 1622 by the Dutch East India Company and used to store, buy and sell goods. The fort was near the fishing village of Paknam at the time, at the mouth of the Mae Nam Chao Phraya River (Chao Phraya River) in the Gulf of Thailand .

Fort Amsterdam was abandoned in 1663 after business in Siam was unsatisfactory for the Dutch. Around 1680 Fort Amsterdam was one of three inhabited places south of the fishing village of Bangkok. At the beginning of the 19th century, according to contemporary travel reports, the fort was in the middle of the Chao Phraya and posed a threat to shipping.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Terwiel (1989), p. 54
2. ↑ Terwiel (1989), p. 42

literature

• Barend Jan Terwiel : Through Travelers' Eyes: an approach to early nineteenth-century Thai history . Bangkok: Ed. Duang Kamol 1989. ISBN 974-210-455-7 .

Web links

• The story of Paknam (today Samut Prakan ) with illustrations in Thai style (in Thai language)
• Location of "Fort Amsterdam" on historical maps:
  • Engelbert Kaempfer, 1690/1692 (A map of the course of the river Meinam from Juthia down to its mouth)
  • Simon de La Loubere, 1693 (A Mapp of the Course of the River Menam from Siam to the Sea.)

Coordinates: 13 ° 36 ′ 22.2 "  N , 100 ° 35 ′ 11.1"  E