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Dutch East Indies

Former Dutch colony, which in 1945 became independent as Indonesia.
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Later on it was confined only to the Indonesian islands which also came to be known as Dutch Indies meaning the Indian Islands belonging to the Netherlands, The present national name of Indonesia for these islands retains the signification of Indies for it has been coined from two Greek words: 'Indos' meaning Indian and 'nesos' meaning island.
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