Proper noun
Neira (plural Neiras)
A surname.
Present on Banda Neira is Fort Belgica, one of the largest remaining Dutch forts that are still intact in Indonesia. Source: Internet
Verhoeff arrived at Banda Neira with a request by Maurice, Prince of Orange to build a fort on the island (the eventual Fort Nassau ). Source: Internet
Five of the Banda islands were within gunshot of each other and he realised that a fort on the main island Neira would give him full control of the group. Source: Internet
Spanish ships visited the islands in the 16th century; the first written record of contact with the islands came with the sighting of Pukapuka by Spanish sailor Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira in 1595 who called it San Bernardo (Saint Bernard). Source: Internet
The first European contact was that of Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira whose expedition first sighted Santa Isabel island on 7 February 1568. Source: Internet
VOC Monopoly Banda Neira in 1724 Having nearly eradicated the islands' native population, Coen divided the productive land of approximately half a million nutmeg trees into sixty-eight 1.2-hectare perken. Source: Internet