Editing Dutch Formosa (section)

{{Short description|Colony in Taiwan (1624–1662, 1664–1668)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2012}}
{{Infobox country
| native_name            = {{native name|nl|Gouvernement Formosa}}<br>{{native name|zh-hant|荷屬福爾摩沙}}
| conventional_long_name = Governorate of Formosa
| common_name            = Formosa
| status                 = Colony
| empire                 = Netherlands
| status_text            = 
| era                    = Age of Discovery
| event_start            = 
| year_start             = 1624
| date_start             = 
| event_end              = Abandonment of Keelung
| year_end               = 1668
| date_end               = 
| p1                     = Prehistory of Taiwan
| p2                     = Kingdom of Middag
| p3                     = Spanish Formosa
| flag_p3                = Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg
| s1                     = Kingdom of Tungning
| flag_s1                = Flag of Ming Cheng.svg
| image_flag             = Flag of the Dutch East India Company.svg
| flag_caption           = Flag of the [[Dutch East India Company]]
| image_coat             = VOC.svg
| symbol_type            = Emblem of the [[Dutch East India Company]]
| image_map                    =                                                         Dutch_and_Spanish_Taiwan_ nl.svg
| image_map_caption      = The locations of Dutch Formosa, overlapping a map of the present-day island.{{legend|#FC99E6|Dutch Formosa}}
{{legend|#2AF7A8|[[Spanish Formosa|Spanish Possessions]]}}
{{legend|#FBC08D|[[Kingdom of Middag]]}}
|official_languages = [[Dutch language|Dutch]]
|common_languages = [[East Formosan languages]]{{*}}[[Hokkien]]
| government_type        = [[Governorate]]
| capital                = [[Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)|Zeelandia]]<br>{{small|(now Anping, [[Tainan]])}}
| religion               = [[Dutch Reformed]],<br>native [[animism|animistic religion]],<br>[[Chinese folk religion]]
| currency               = [[Dutch guilder]]
| stat_year1             = 
| stat_pop1              = 
| stat_area1             = 
| title_representative   = [[Governor of Formosa|Governor]]
| representative1        = [[Martinus Sonck]]
| year_representative1   = 1624–1625
| representative2        = [[Frederick Coyett]]
| year_representative2   = 1656–1662
| event1                 = [[Siege of Fort Zeelandia]]
| date_event1            = 1661–1662
| today                  = [[Taiwan|Republic of China (Taiwan)]]
}}
The [[island of Taiwan]], also commonly known as ''Formosa'', was partly under [[colonial rule]] by the [[Dutch Republic]] from 1624 to 1662 and from 1664 to 1668. In the context of the [[Age of Discovery]], the [[Dutch East India Company]] established its presence on Formosa to trade with the [[Ming Empire]] in neighbouring China and [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in Japan, and to interdict [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] and [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] trade and colonial activities in [[East Asia]].

The Dutch were not universally welcomed, and uprisings by both aborigines and recent [[Han people|Han]] arrivals were quelled by the Dutch military on more than one occasion. With the rise of the [[Qing dynasty]] in the early 17th century, the Dutch East India Company cut ties with the Ming dynasty and allied with the Qing instead, in exchange for the right to unfettered access to their [[trade route|trade]] and [[shipping route]]s. The colonial period was brought to an end after the [[Siege of Fort Zeelandia|1662 siege]] of [[Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)|Fort Zeelandia]] by [[Koxinga]]'s army who promptly dismantled the Dutch colony, expelled the Dutch and established the Ming loyalist, [[anti-Qing sentiment|anti-Qing]] [[Kingdom of Tungning]].