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en-wikipedia-org-7618		Curaçao - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	12549	1877	68	In 1634, after the Netherlands achieved independence from Spain following the Eighty Years' War, the Dutch West India Company under Admiral Johann van Walbeeck invaded the island and the Spaniards there surrendered in San Juan in August. Later, salt mining became a major industry, the mineral being a lucrative export at the time.[citation needed] From 1662 the Dutch West India Company made Curaçao a centre for the Atlantic slave trade, often bringing slaves from West Africa there for sale elsewhere in the Caribbean and on Spanish Main.[19] A new island council ratified this agreement on 9 July 2007.[35] On 15 December 2008, Curaçao was scheduled to become a separate country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands (as Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles were). The Roman Catholic Diocese of Willemstad encompasses all the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean which includes Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and the islands of Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7618.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7618.txt