荷蘭福爾摩沙長官公署假想模型(當時荷蘭總督府在台南安平古堡之樣貌) The Imaginary Construct of the Dutch Governor's House in Formosa. 比例 scale : 1/30
Part II Sunday with very old and good friends get along like we have long time fucking not do bad things together such excited you know that feeling. LOL
Yesterday (Sunday) I had a good time with very old friends of church team together, we invited by one of the team old/nice sister to join her daughter 🎎 wedding party at lunch in the five stars hotel. (台南Tainan,another city)💞 then after that we went to take a walking & visited - 安平古堡(Fort Zeelandia) and I think that's one of the reasons. There is a Catholic church very close to it for the Dutch officers, families and soldiers stationed in Taiwan at that time. ◠‿◠ Lan~*
It was a fortress built over ten years from 1624 to 1634 by the Dutch East India Company (VOC), in the town of Anping (now Anping District of Tainan) on Formosa, the former name of main island of Taiwan, during their 38-year rule over the western part of the island.
During the seventeenth century, when Europeans from many countries sailed to Asia to develop trade, Formosa became one of East Asia's most important transit sites, and Fort Zeelandia an international business center. As trade at the time depended on "military force to control the markets", the value of Formosa to the Dutch was mainly in its strategic position. "From Formosa the Spanish commerce between Manila and China, and the Portuguese commerce between Macau and Japan could by constant attacks be made so precarious that much of it would be thrown into the hands of the Dutch, while the latter's dealings with China and Japan would be subject to no interruptions."
On behalf of the VOC, ships departing from Formosa could head north to Japan, west to Fujian, or south to Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, India, Iran or Europe.