Jonas Bronck

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Jonas Bronck was a 17th-century Scandinavian-born settler after whom New York City's borough of the Bronx is named.

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Jonas Bronck canonical 6

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Predicate Object
instanceOf person
settler
centuryOfActivity 17th century
chronology lived in the early 1600s
continentOfActivity North America
countryOfCitizenship Dutch Republic
countryOfOrigin Scandinavia
ethnicGroup Scandinavian
familyName Bronck
fieldOfWork colonial agriculture
colonial settlement
givenName Jonas
hasLegacy toponymic legacy in New York City
hasPartOfNameInCommonWith The Bronx
inspiredNameOf The Bronx
knownFor early European settlement in what is now the Bronx
languageSpoken Dutch
a Scandinavian language
namedAfter Jonas Bronck self-linksurface differs
notableFor being the namesake of the Bronx
occupation farmer
landowner
settler
partOf Dutch colonial empire
surface form: Dutch colonization of the Americas
placeOfActivity New Netherland
North America
religion Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism
residence Bronx area
New Netherland
sexOrGender male

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Bronck family notableMember Jonas Bronck
Bronck family namedAfter Jonas Bronck
subject surface form: The Bronx
Bronx River namedAfter Jonas Bronck
Jonas Bronck namedAfter Jonas Bronck self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: The Bronx
Bronck hasNotableBearer Jonas Bronck
Bronck hasNotableHistoricalFigure Jonas Bronck