Jodensavanne

Jodensavanne was a Jewish plantation community in , , and was for a time the centre of Jewish life in the colony. It was established in the 1600s by Sephardi Jews and became more developed and wealthy after a group of Jews fleeing persecution in Brazil settled there in the 1660s.
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  • Type: Ruins
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Joden Savana”, “Jodensavanna”, “Surinam’daki Yahudilerin tarihi”, “Surinam’ın Yahudi tarihi”, “Yahudi Savanası”, and “יודן סוואנה”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Redi Doti and Cassipora.

Village
Photo: NullAspect, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an Indigenous village of Lokono and… is situated 2½ km west of Jodensavanne.

Hamlet
is an Indigenous village of Lokono… is situated 3½ km south of Jodensavanne.

Hamlet
Photo: Jan Willem Broekema, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a resort in , located in the . is situated 5 km northwest of Jodensavanne.

Jodensavanne

Latitude
5.42678° or 5° 25′ 36″ north
Longitude
-54.953° or 54° 57′ 11″ west
Open location code
68Q7C2GW+PR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 313744583
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Wiki­data ID
Q648787
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Jodensavanne” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جودنسافان”
  • Armenian: “Յոդենսավաննա”
  • Belarusian: “Ёдэнсавана”
  • Chinese: “尤登薩瓦內”
  • Chinese: “犹太萨凡纳”
  • Chinese: “猶太薩凡納”
  • Croatian: “Jodensavanne”
  • Czech: “Jodensavanne”
  • Dutch: “Jodensavanne”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جودنسافان”
  • Finnish: “Jodensavanne”
  • French: “Jodensavanne”
  • Galician: “Jodensavanne”
  • German: “Jodensavanne”
  • Hebrew: “יודנסוואנה”
  • Irish: “Jodensavanne”
  • Italian: “Jodensavanne”
  • Maltese: “Jodensavanne”
  • Polish: “Jodensavanne”
  • Portuguese: “Jodensavanne”
  • Russian: “Йоденсаванна”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jodensavanne”
  • Spanish: “Jodensavanne”
  • Swedish: “Jodensavanne”
  • Turkish: “Jodensavanne”
  • Vietnamese: “Jodensavanne”

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