Indonesian Island Sold for Manhattan Over Precious Spice

The 1667 treaty of exchange, perhaps one of the most unusual in history, resulted in the island of Run, located in the Banda Islands archipelago in Indonesia, being traded for Manhattan, then a little...

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Ostrvo manje od 3 kvadratna kilometra zamijenjeno je za Manhattan, a razlog je bio jedan začin koji je tada vrijedio kao zlato

Godine 1667. Engleska i Nizozemska sklopile su mir kojim su razmijenile teritorije. Nizozemci su dobili maleno ostrvo u Indoneziji, Englezi Novi Amste

23 Jul 2026

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