Meaning of Surinen | Babel Free

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An ethnic group who were the earliest known inhabitants of what is now Suriname.

plural, plural-only

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“Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like⟳ the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen were disappearing by the late 1400s.”

“1593 - Spanish explorers visit⟳ the area and name⟳ it Suriname, after the country’s earliest inhabitants, the Surinen.”

“They called the colony “Surinam” after the Surinen indigenous people who then inhabited the “land⟳ of many waters” in the fertile Guiana plains.”

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