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== History ==
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Before the arrival of Europeans, the region of what is now the country of South Tussenland was inhabited by Native Americans for many millenia. The first European explorers to visit South Tussenland came in 1528 when a Spanish expedition led by Pánfilo de Narváez located the mouth of the Mississippi River. Two decades later, an expedition by Hernando de Soto skirted the northern region of South Tussenland and followed the Mississippi River arriving at the Gulf of Mexico in 1543. Although they were the first to explore and chart the area, the Spanish lost colonial interest in the region over the next decades.
==== Opdam's Expedition (1674-1679) ====
In the late 16th century, Dutch explorer Cornelis Jacobszoon van Duvenvoorde Opdam was hired by the Dutch West India Company and led an expedition from the Dutch Tussenland Colony to find a route to the Pacific, following the Ohio River and then down the Mississippi River. He claimed the land around the river for the company and named it the Dutch Possessions on the Mississippi (Amerikaens: Nederlands Besittingen ter Misisibie) (although the country of [[Opdamsland]] formed in 1903 would be posthumously named after him). Along the journey halfway into present-day South Tussenland came an escort of Chitimacha Indians who Opdam had befriended. Opdam reached the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1679.
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==== Part of the Dutch Mississippi Colony ====
=== 18th Century ===
==== South Tussenland Revolution (1849) and the 2nd Dutch-Spanish War (1850-1855) ====
== Government and politics ==
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