Ambon 1623 / Banda 1621. Dutch & British Colonial History Revisited International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Summer 2021, By: Michiel Baas On 8 May 2021, it was exactly 400 years since Jan Pietersz Coen (1587-1629) committed a massacre on the Banda Islands in the Moluccas (Maluku Province), the only place where nutmeg grew at … Continue reading Ambon 1623 / Banda 1621 – IIAS