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- Benelux
- Countries and territories where Dutch is an official language
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Low Countries
- Member states of NATO
- Member states of the European Union
- OECD members
- States and territories established in 1815
- Western European countries
's-Hertogenbosch
s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc,; Herzogenbusch), colloquially known as Den Bosch, is a city and municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 160,783.
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ABC islands (Leeward Antilles)
The ABC islands is the physical group of '''A'''ruba, '''B'''onaire, and '''C'''uraçao, the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.
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ABN AMRO
ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is the third-largest Dutch bank, with headquarters in Amsterdam.
Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).
Act of Abjuration
The Act of Abjuration (Plakkaat van Verlatinghe; lit) is the declaration of independence by many of the provinces of the Netherlands from their allegiance to Philip II of Spain, during the Dutch Revolt.
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Adriaen Thomasz Key
Adriaen Thomasz.
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Advocaat
Advocaat or advocatenborrel is a traditional Dutch alcoholic beverage made from eggs, sugar, and brandy.
Aeolian processes
Aeolian processes, also spelled eolian, pertain to wind activity in the study of geology and weather and specifically to the wind's ability to shape the surface of the Earth (or other planets).
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Netherlands and Afghanistan are member states of the United Nations.
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Afrojack
Nick Leonardus van de Wall (born 9 September 1987), better known as Afrojack, is a Dutch DJ, music producer and remixer.
Afsluitdijk
The Afsluitdijk (Ofslútdyk; Ofsluutdiek; "Closure Dyke") is a major dam and causeway in the Netherlands.
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Agricultural pollution
Agricultural pollution refers to biotic and abiotic byproducts of farming practices that result in contamination or degradation of the environment and surrounding ecosystems, and/or cause injury to humans and their economic interests.
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Ahrensburg culture
The Ahrensburg culture or Ahrensburgian (c. 12,900 to 11,700 BP) was a late Upper Paleolithic nomadic hunter culture (or technocomplex) in north-central Europe during the Younger Dryas, the last spell of cold at the end of the Weichsel glaciation resulting in deforestation and the formation of a tundra with bushy arctic white birch and rowan.
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AkzoNobel
Akzo Nobel N.V., stylised as AkzoNobel, is a Dutch multinational company which creates paints and performance coatings for both industry and consumers worldwide.
Ala (Roman allied military unit)
An ala (Latin for "wing"; alae) was the term used during the middle of the Roman Republic (338–88 BC) to denote a military formation composed of conscripts from the socii, Rome's Italian military allies.
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Aldgisl
Aldegisel (also spelled Aldegisl, Aldgillis, Aldgisl, Aldgils or Eadgils, fl. c. 678) was the ruler of Frisia (as king or duke) in the late seventh century contemporarily with Dagobert II and a very obscure figure.
Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma
Alexander Farnese (Alessandro Farnese, Alejandro Farnesio; 27 August 1545 – 3 December 1592) was an Italian noble and condottiero, who was Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro from 1586 to 1592, as well as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1578 to 1592.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
Almere
Almere is a planned city and municipality in the province of Flevoland, Netherlands across the IJmeer from Amsterdam.
Alps
The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
American Society of Civil Engineers
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide.
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, known informally as Schiphol Airport (Luchthaven Schiphol), is the main international airport of the Netherlands, and is one of the major hubs for the SkyTeam airline alliance.
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Amsterdam Dance Event
The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is a five-day electronic music conference and festival held annually in mid-October.
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Amsterdam metropolitan area
The Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (Metropoolregio Amsterdam) is the city region around the city of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.
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André Rieu
André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu (born 1 October 1949) is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.
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Angles (tribe)
The Angles were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period.
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Anglo-Dutch Wars
The Anglo–Dutch Wars (Engels–Nederlandse Oorlogen) were a series of conflicts mainly fought between the Dutch Republic and England (later Great Britain) in the mid-17th and late 18th century.
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Anglo-Saxon mission
Anglo-Saxon missionaries were instrumental in the spread of Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century, continuing the work of Hiberno-Scottish missionaries which had been spreading Celtic Christianity across the Frankish Empire as well as in Scotland and Anglo-Saxon England itself during the 6th century (see Anglo-Saxon Christianity).
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Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.
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Anguilla
Anguilla is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.
Animal husbandry
Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.
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Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (English:; 12 June 1929 – February or March 1945)Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed.
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Anno Domini
The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Anouk (singer)
Anouk Schemmekes (born 8 April 1975), professionally known by the mononym Anouk, is a Dutch singer and songwriter.
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Anthonie Heinsius
Anthonie (or Antonius) Heinsius (23 November 1641, Delft – 3 August 1720, The Hague) was a Dutch statesman who served as Grand Pensionary of Holland from 1689 to his death in 1720.
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Anton Corbijn
Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard (born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, film director, and music video director.
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (24 October 1632 – 26 August 1723) was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology.
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Antwerp
Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Armin van Buuren
Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren OON (born 25 December 1976) is a Dutch DJ and record producer.
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Arnhem
Arnhem (or; Arnheim; Ernems: Èrnem) is a city and municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands, near the German border.
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.
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Aruba
Aruba, officially the Country of Aruba (Land Aruba; Pais Aruba), is a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, situated in the south of the Caribbean Sea. Netherlands and Aruba are countries and territories where Dutch is an official language.
Ascension of Jesus
The Ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vulgate lit) is the Christian belief, reflected in the major Christian creeds and confessional statements, that Jesus ascended to Heaven after his resurrection, where he was exalted as Lord and Christ, sitting at the right hand of God.
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ASML Holding
ASML Holding N.V. (commonly shortened to ASML, originally standing for Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography) is a Dutch multinational corporation founded in 1984.
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Asphyx
Asphyx is a Dutch death metal band formed in Oldenzaal, Overijssel in 1987 by Bob Bagchus and Tony Brookhuis.
Asrai
The asrai is a type of aquatic fairy in English folklore and literature.
Assen
Assen is a city and municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands, and is the capital of the province of Drenthe.
Asset price inflation
Asset price inflation is the economic phenomenon whereby the price of assets rise and become inflated.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Atheneum (school)
Atheneum, named after the ancient school founded by Roman Emperor Hadrian, is the name used for one of the Dutch educational courses aimed at preparation for scientific education at university with a strong emphasis on academic learning.
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Atlantic Time Zone
The Atlantic Time Zone is a geographical region that keeps standard time—called Atlantic Standard Time (AST)—by subtracting four hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), resulting in UTC−04:00.
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Atlanticism
Atlanticism, also known as Transatlanticism, is the ideology which advocates a close alliance between nations in Northern America (the United States and Canada) and in Europe on political, economic, and defense issues.
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Augustus
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire.
Average human height by country
Below are two tables which report the average adult human height by country or geographical region.
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Ayreon
Ayreon is a musical project by Dutch songwriter, singer, musician and record producer Arjen Anthony Lucassen.
Baarle-Nassau
Baarle-Nassau is a municipality and town in the southern Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant.
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Baltic region
The Baltic Sea Region, alternatively the Baltic Rim countries (or simply the Baltic Rim), and the Baltic Sea countries/states, refers to the general area surrounding the Baltic Sea, including parts of Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.
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Banijay Entertainment (company)
Banijay Entertainment S.A. (formerly Banijay Group and later Banijay) is a French multinational television production and distribution company which is the world's largest international content producer and distributor with over 130 production companies across 23 territories, and a multi-genre catalogue containing over 185,000 hours of original programming.
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Barrel organ
A barrel organ (also called roller organ or crank organ) is a French mechanical musical instrument consisting of bellows and one or more ranks of pipes housed in a case, usually of wood, and often highly decorated.
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Barrier Treaty
The Barrier Treaties were a series of agreements signed and ratified between 1709 and 1715 that created a buffer zone between the Dutch Republic and France by allowing the Dutch to occupy a number of fortresses in the Southern Netherlands, ruled by the Spanish or the Austrians.
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Baruch Spinoza
Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 163221 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin.
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Basic Instinct
Basic Instinct is a 1992 neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas.
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Batavi (Germanic tribe)
The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe that lived around the modern Dutch Rhine delta in the area that the Romans called Batavia, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD.
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Batavian Republic
The Batavian Republic (Bataafse Republiek; République Batave) was the successor state to the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
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Battle of Gembloux (1578)
The Battle of Gembloux took place at Gembloux, near Namur, Low Countries, between the Spanish forces led by Don John of Austria (Spanish: Don Juan de Austria),Morris p. 268 Governor-General of the Spanish Netherlands, and a rebel army composed of Dutch, Flemish, English, Scottish, German, French, and Walloon soldiers under Antoine de Goignies, during the Eighty Years' War.
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Battle of Leipzig
The Battle of Leipzig (Bataille de Leipsick; Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig,; Slaget vid Leipzig), also known as the Battle of the Nations, was fought from 16 to 19 October 1813 at Leipzig, Saxony.
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Battle of Mühlberg
The Battle of Mühlberg took place near Mühlberg in the Electorate of Saxony in 1547, during the Schmalkaldic War.
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Battle of the Boarn
The Battle of the Boarn (Slach oan de Boarn; Slag aan de Boorne) was an 8th century battle between the Franks and the Frisians near the mouth of the river Boarn in what is now the Dutch province of Friesland.
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Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, described as the Varus Disaster or Varian Disaster (Clades Variana) by Roman historians, was a major battle between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire that took place somewhere near modern Kalkriese from September 8–11, 9 AD, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus and their auxiliaries.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Bear raid
A bear raid is a type of stock market strategy, where a trader (or group of traders) attempts to force down the price of a stock to cover a short position.
Belgian Revolution
The Belgian Revolution was the conflict which led to the secession of the southern provinces (mainly the former Southern Netherlands) from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the establishment of an independent Kingdom of Belgium.
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Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Netherlands and Belgium are Benelux, countries and territories where Dutch is an official language, countries in Europe, low Countries, member states of NATO, member states of the European Union, member states of the United Nations and OECD members.
Bell Beaker culture
The Bell Beaker culture, also known as the Bell Beaker complex or Bell Beaker phenomenon, is an archaeological culture named after the inverted-bell beaker drinking vessel used at the very beginning of the European Bronze Age, arising from around 2800 BC.
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Benelux
The Benelux Union (Benelux Unie; Union Benelux; Benelux-Unioun) or Benelux is a politico-economic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighbouring states in Western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
Bert Haanstra
Albert Haanstra (31 May 1916 – 23 October 1997) was a Dutch director of films and documentaries.
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Betuweroute
The Betuweroute is a double track freight railway between Rotterdam and Germany.
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Bible Belt (Netherlands)
The Bible Belt (bijbelgordel, biblebelt) is a strip of land in the Netherlands with the highest concentration of conservative orthodox Reformed Protestants in the country.
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Bicameralism
Bicameralism is a type of legislature that is divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature.
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Big Brother (franchise)
Big Brother is a reality competition television franchise created by John de Mol Jr., first broadcast in the Netherlands in 1999 and subsequently syndicated internationally.
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Biocapacity
The biocapacity or biological capacity of an ecosystem is an estimate of its production of certain biological materials such as natural resources, and its absorption and filtering of other materials such as carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Black Book (film)
Black Book (Zwartboek) is a 2006 war drama thriller film co-written and directed by Paul Verhoeven, and starring Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman and Halina Reijn.
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Blacksmith
A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith).
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BLØF
BLØF is a Dutch rock band from Vlissingen, Zeeland, founded in 1992 by Peter Slager.
Blue mussel
The blue mussel (Mytilus edulis), also known as the common mussel, is a medium-sized edible marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae, the mussels.
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Bonaire
Bonaire (Papiamento) is a Caribbean island in the Leeward Antilles, and is a special municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands. Netherlands and Bonaire are countries and territories where Dutch is an official language.
Boreal Kingdom
The Boreal Kingdom or Holarctic Kingdom (Holarctis) is a floristic kingdom identified by botanist Ronald Good (and later by Armen Takhtajan), which includes the temperate to Arctic portions of North America and Eurasia.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Босна и Херцеговина), sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe, situated on the Balkan Peninsula. Netherlands and Bosnia and Herzegovina are countries in Europe and member states of the United Nations.
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Bosnian War
The Bosnian War (Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started on 6 April 1992, following a number of earlier violent incidents.
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Bossche bol
A Bossche bol (Dutch for 'Ball from Den Bosch') – or just called chocoladebol ('chocolate ball') in its city of origin – is a pastry from the Dutch city of 'sHertogenbosch.
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Bow and arrow
The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles (arrows).
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Brabantian dialect
Brabantian or Brabantish, also Brabantic or Brabantine (Brabants, Standard Dutch pronunciation), is a dialect group of the Dutch language.
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Brabantine Gothic
Brabantine Gothic, occasionally called Brabantian Gothic, is a significant variant of Gothic architecture that is typical for the Low Countries.
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Brutalist architecture
Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Buddhism in the Netherlands
Buddhism is a small minority religion in the Netherlands, but it has shown rapid growth in recent years.
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Bulk material handling
Bulk material handling is an engineering field that is centered on the design of equipment used for the handling of dry materials.
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Business cycle
Business cycles are intervals of general expansion followed by recession in economic performance.
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Business magnate
A business magnate, also known as an industrialist or tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the creation or ownership of multiple lines of enterprise.
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Buttermilk
Buttermilk is a fermented dairy drink.
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Cabinet of the Netherlands
The cabinet of the Netherlands (Nederlands kabinet) is the main executive body of the Netherlands.
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Cananefates
The Cananefates, or Canninefates, Caninefates, or Canenefatae, meaning "boat masters" (or, less likely, "leek masters"), were a Germanic tribe, who lived in the Rhine delta, in western Batavia (later Betuwe), in the Roman province of Germania Inferior (now in the Dutch province of South Holland), before and during the Roman conquest.
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Cannabis (drug)
Cannabis, also known as marijuana or weed, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform drug from the cannabis plant.
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Cape Colony
The Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope.
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Capital of the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, the Constitution refers to Amsterdam as the capital city.
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Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
Caribbean Netherlands
The Caribbean Netherlands is a geographic region of the Netherlands located outside of Europe, in the Caribbean, consisting of three special municipalities.
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Carice van Houten
Carice Anouk van Houten (born 5 September 1976) is a Dutch actress.
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Caro Emerald
Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw (born 26 April 1981), known for the music project Caro Emerald, and latterly The Jordan is a Dutch pop and jazz singer who mainly performs in English.
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Carolingian Empire
The Carolingian Empire (800–887) was a Frankish-dominated empire in Western and Central Europe during the Early Middle Ages.
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Castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom (born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist.
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Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
Central Europe
Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.
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Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year.
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Central European Time
Central European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Chalcolithic Europe
The European Chalcolithic, the Chalcolithic (also Eneolithic, Copper Age) period of Prehistoric Europe, lasted roughly from 5000 to 2000 BC, developing from the preceding Neolithic period and followed by the Bronze Age.
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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V (Ghent, 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555.
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Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands
The Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands (in Dutch: Statuut voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden; in Papiamentu: Statuut di Reino Hulandes) is a legal instrument that sets out the political relationship among the four countries that constitute the Kingdom of the Netherlands: Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten in the Caribbean and the Netherlands (for the most part) in Europe.
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Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, (also spelled Huyghens; Hugenius; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.
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Christian democracy
Christian democracy is a political ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics.
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Christian Democratic Appeal
The Christian Democratic Appeal (Christen-Democratisch Appèl,, CDA) is a Christian democratic and socially conservative political party in the Netherlands.
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Christian Union (Netherlands)
The Christian Union (ChristenUnie, CU) is a Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands.
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Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.
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Circumboreal Region
The Circumboreal Region in phytogeography is a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom in Eurasia and North America, as delineated by such geobotanists as Josias Braun-Blanquet and Armen Takhtajan.
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City rights in the Low Countries
City rights are a feature of the medieval history of the Low Countries.
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Climate
Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.
Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Climate change mitigation
Climate change mitigation (or decarbonisation) is action to limit the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that cause climate change.
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Clog
Clogs are a type of footwear made in part or completely from wood.
Clovis I
Clovis (Chlodovechus; reconstructed Frankish: *Hlōdowig; – 27 November 511) was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Franks under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of petty kings to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs.
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
Coalition government
A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a government by political parties that enter into a power-sharing arrangement of the executive.
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Coast
A coastalso called the coastline, shoreline, or seashoreis the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.
Coat of arms of the Netherlands
The coat of arms of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was originally adopted in 1815 and later modified in 1907.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy
In World War II, many governments, organizations and individuals collaborated with the Axis powers, "out of conviction, desperation, or under coercion." Nationalists sometimes welcomed German or Italian troops they believed would liberate their countries from colonization.
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Colloquialism
Colloquialism (also called colloquial language, everyday language, or general parlance) is the linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication.
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Columbia Encyclopedia
The Columbia Encyclopedia is a one-volume encyclopedia produced by Columbia University Press and, in the last edition, sold by the Gale Group.
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Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.
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Confederation
A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states or communities united for purposes of common action.
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Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Conscription
Conscription is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service.
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Consociationalism
Consociationalism is a form of democratic power sharing.
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Constitutional monarchy
Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.
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Container port
A container port or container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation.
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Conurbation
A conurbation is a region comprising a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area.
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Convention of Nymegen
The Convention of Nymegen (alt. spelling Nijmegen or Nymwegen) was a treaty signed between England and Spain in 1573.
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Corded Ware culture
The Corded Ware culture comprises a broad archaeological horizon of Europe between – 2350 BC, thus from the late Neolithic, through the Copper Age, and ending in the early Bronze Age.
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Council of Ministers (Netherlands)
The Council of Ministers (Ministerraad) is the executive council of Dutch Government, formed by all the ministers including the deputy prime ministers.
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Council of Troubles
The Council of Troubles (usual English translation of Raad van Beroerten, or Tribunal de los Tumultos, or Conseil des Troubles) was the special tribunal instituted on 9 September 1567 by Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, governor-general of the Habsburg Netherlands on the orders of Philip II of Spain to punish the ringleaders of the recent political and religious troubles in the Netherlands.
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Count of Holland
The counts of Holland ruled over the County of Holland in the Low Countries between the 10th and the 16th century.
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County of Hainaut
The County of Hainaut (Comté de Hainaut.; Graafschap Henegouwen.; comitatus hanoniensis.), sometimes spelled Hainault, was a territorial lordship within the medieval Holy Roman Empire that straddled the present-day border of Belgium and France.
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County of Holland
The County of Holland was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and from 1433 part of the Burgundian Netherlands, from 1482 part of the Habsburg Netherlands and from 1581 onward the leading province of the Dutch Republic, of which it remained a part until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.
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County of Zeeland
The County of Zeeland (Graafschap Zeeland) was a county of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries and it later became one of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic.
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Cucumber
The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the family Cucurbitaceae that bears cylindrical to spherical fruits, which are used as culinary vegetables.
Cultivation System
The Cultivation System (cultuurstelsel) was a Dutch government policy from 1830–1870 for its Dutch East Indies colony (now Indonesia).
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Cultural Christians
Cultural Christians are the nonreligious or non-practicing Christians who received Christian values and appreciate Christian culture.
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Cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations.
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Curaçao
Curaçao (or, or, Papiamentu), officially the Country of Curaçao (Land Curaçao; Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of Venezuela. Netherlands and Curaçao are countries and territories where Dutch is an official language.
Curaçao and Dependencies
The Colony of Curaçao and Dependencies (Kolonie Curaçao en onderhorigheden; Kolonia di Kòrsou i dependensianan) was a Dutch colony in the Caribbean Sea from 1634 until 1828 and from 1845 until 1954. Netherlands and Curaçao and Dependencies are states and territories established in 1815.
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Cycling in the Netherlands
Cycling is the second-most common mode of transport in the Netherlands, with 36% of Dutch people listing the bicycle as their most frequent way of getting around on a typical day, as opposed to the car (45%) and public transport (11%).
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Cycling infrastructure
Cycling infrastructure is all infrastructure cyclists are allowed to use.
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Dash Berlin
Dash Berlin is a Dutch electronic music group started in 2007 in The Hague by Eelke Kalberg and Sebastiaan Molijn.
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De Biesbosch National Park
De Biesbosch National Park is one of the largest national parks in the Netherlands and one of the last extensive areas of freshwater tidal wetlands in Northwestern Europe.
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De Stijl
De Stijl (Dutch for "The Style"), incorporating the ideas of Neoplasticism, was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 in Leiden, consisting of artists and architects.
Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which (launching the format) was the Dutch Miljoenenjacht (Hunt/Chase for Millions).
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Decolonization
independence. Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas.
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Deixis
In linguistics, deixis is the use of words or phrases to refer to a particular time (e.g. then), place (e.g. here), or person (e.g. you) relative to the context of the utterance.
Dejima
or Deshima, in the 17th century also called Tsukishima (築島, "built island"), was an artificial island off Nagasaki, Japan that served as a trading post for the Portuguese (1570–1639) and subsequently the Dutch (1641–1854). For 220 years, it was the central conduit for foreign trade and cultural exchange with Japan during the isolationist Edo period (1600–1869), and the only Japanese territory open to Westerners.
Delain
Delain is a Dutch symphonic metal band formed in 2002 by former Within Temptation keyboardist Martijn Westerholt, intending for the band to be solely a project.
Delta Works
The Delta Works (Deltawerken) is a series of construction projects in the southwest of the Netherlands to protect a large area of land around the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta from the sea.
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Demographics of the Netherlands
Demographic features of the population of the Netherlands include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the population, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
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Demonym
A demonym or gentilic is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place.
Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe. Netherlands and Denmark are countries in Europe, member states of NATO, member states of the European Union, member states of the United Nations and OECD members.
Developed country
A developed country, or advanced country, is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
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Dick Maas
Dirk Herman Willem Maas (Dick) (born 15 April 1951) is a Dutch film director, screenwriter, film producer and film composer.
Direct election
Direct election is a system of choosing political officeholders in which the voters directly cast ballots for the persons or political party that they wanted to see elected.
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Disarmament
Disarmament is the act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons.
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Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles
The Netherlands Antilles was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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DJ Mag
DJ Magazine (also known as DJ Mag) is a British monthly magazine dedicated to electronic dance music and DJs.
Doctorate
A doctorate (from Latin doctor, meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism licentia docendi ("licence to teach").
Doe Maar
Doe Maar was a Dutch pop band that combined punk, ska, and reggae influences.
Dolmen
A dolmen or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table".
Don Diablo
Don Pepijn Schipper (born 27 February 1980), better known by his stage name Don Diablo, is a Dutch DJ, digital artist, record producer, musician and songwriter of electronic dance music.
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Dorestad
Dorestad (Dorestat, Duristat) was an early medieval emporium, located in the southeast of the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands, close to the modern-day town of Wijk bij Duurstede.
Drèents dialects
Drèents (also Dreins, Dreints, Drents, Drints; Drents) is a collective term for Westphalian dialects spoken in Drenthe, a province of the Netherlands.
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Drenthe
Drenthe is a province of the Netherlands located in the northeastern part of the country.
Drug policy of the Netherlands
While recreational use, possession and trade of non-medicinal drugs described by the Opium Law are all technically illegal under Dutch law, official policy since the late 20th century has been to openly tolerate all recreational use while tolerating possession and trade under certain circumstances.
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DSM (company)
Koninklijke DSM N.V. (Royal DSM, commonly known as DSM, which is the acronym for Dutch State Mines), was a Dutch multinational corporation active in the fields of health, nutrition and materials.
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Duchy of Brabant
The Duchy of Brabant, a state of the Holy Roman Empire, was established in 1183.
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Duchy of Guelders
The Duchy of Guelders (Gelre, Gueldre, Geldern) is a historical duchy, previously county, of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the Low Countries.
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Duchy of Limburg
The Duchy of Limburg or Limbourg was an imperial estate of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Duchy of Lorraine
The Duchy of Lorraine (Lorraine; Lothringen), originally Upper Lorraine, was a duchy now included in the larger present-day region of Lorraine in northeastern France.
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Duke of Burgundy
Duke of Burgundy (duc de Bourgogne) was a title used by the rulers of the Duchy of Burgundy, from its establishment in 843 to its annexation by the French crown in 1477, and later by members of the House of Habsburg, including Holy Roman Emperors and kings of Spain, who claimed Burgundy proper and ruled the Burgundian Netherlands.
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Dune
A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand.
Dutch art
Dutch art describes the history of visual arts in the Netherlands, after the United Provinces separated from Flanders.
Dutch Baroque architecture
Dutch Baroque architecture is a variety of Baroque architecture that flourished in the Dutch Republic and its colonies during the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century.
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Dutch Caribbean
The Dutch Caribbean (historically known as the Dutch West Indies) are the New World territories, colonies, and countries (former and current) of the Dutch Empire and the Kingdom of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea, mainly the northern and southwestern regions of the Lesser Antilles archipelago.
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Dutch colonial empire
The Dutch colonial empire (Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies—mainly the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company—and subsequently by the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), and by the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands after 1815.
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Dutch colonisation of the Guianas
The Dutch began their colonisation of the Guianas, the coastal region between the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in South America, in the late 16th century.
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Dutch diaspora
The Dutch diaspora consists of the Dutch and their descendants living outside the Netherlands.
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Dutch disease
In economics, Dutch disease is the apparent causal relationship between the increase in the economic development of a specific sector (for example natural resources) and a decline in other sectors (like the manufacturing sector or agriculture).
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Dutch East India Company
The United East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, abbreviated as VOC), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world.
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Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Nederlands(ch)-Indië) and Dutch Indonesia, was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.
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Dutch Formosa
The island of Taiwan, also commonly known as Formosa, was partly under colonial rule by the Dutch Republic from 1624 to 1662 and from 1664 to 1668.
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Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age (Gouden Eeuw) was a period in the history of the Netherlands which roughly lasted from 1588, when the Dutch Republic was established, to 1672, when the Rampjaar occurred.
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Dutch Golden Age painting
Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence.
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Dutch government-in-exile
The Dutch government-in-exile (Nederlandse regering in ballingschap), also known as the London Cabinet (Londens kabinet), was the government in exile of the Netherlands, supervised by Queen Wilhelmina, that fled to London after the German invasion of the country during World War II on 10 May 1940.
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Dutch guilder
The guilder (gulden) or florin was the currency of the Netherlands from 1434 until 2002, when it was replaced by the euro.
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Dutch hip hop
Dutch hip hop or Nederhop ("Netherhop") is hip hop / rap music created by Dutch speaking musicians in the Netherlands and Flanders (Belgium).
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Dutch India
Dutch India consisted of the settlements and trading posts of the Dutch East India Company on the Indian subcontinent.
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Dutch language
Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.
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Dutch Low Saxon
Dutch Low Saxon (Nederlaands Leegsaksies or Nederlaands Nedersaksies; Nederlands Nedersaksisch) are the Low Saxon dialects of the Low German language that are spoken in the northeastern Netherlands and are mostly, but not exclusively, written with local, unstandardised orthographies based on Standard Dutch orthography.
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Dutch people
The Dutch (Dutch) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands.
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Dutch Reformed Church
The Dutch Reformed Church (abbreviated NHK) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930.
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Dutch Republic
The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) and commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.
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Dutch resistance
The Dutch resistance to the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II can be mainly characterized as non-violent.
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Dutch Sign Language
Dutch Sign Language (Nederlandse Gebarentaal or NGT; Sign Language of the Netherlands or SLN) is the predominant sign language used by deaf people in the Netherlands.
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Dutch Waterline
The Dutch Waterline (Hollandsche Waterlinie, modern spelling: Hollandse Waterlinie) was a series of water-based defences conceived by Maurice of Nassau in the early 17th century, and realised by his half brother Frederick Henry.
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Dutch West India Company
The Dutch West India Company or WIC (Westindische Compagnie) was a chartered company of Dutch merchants as well as foreign investors, formally known as GWC (Geoctrooieerde Westindische Compagnie; Chartered West India Company).
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Earthenware
Earthenware is glazed or unglazed nonvitreous pottery that has normally been fired below.
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East Francia
East Francia (Latin: Francia orientalis) or the Kingdom of the East Franks (Regnum Francorum orientalium) was a successor state of Charlemagne's empire ruled by the Carolingian dynasty until 911.
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Eastern Scheldt
The Eastern Scheldt (Oosterschelde) is a former estuary in the province of Zeeland, Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north and Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland on the south.
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Eburones
The Eburones (Greek: Ἐβούρωνες, Ἐβουρωνοί) were a Gaulish-Germanic tribe dwelling in the northeast of Gaul, who lived north of the Ardennes in the region near that is now the southern Netherlands, eastern Belgium and the German Rhineland, in the period immediately preceding the Roman conquest of the region.
Ecological footprint
The ecological footprint measures human demand on natural capital, i.e. the quantity of nature it takes to support people and their economies.
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Economist Intelligence Unit
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is the research and analysis division of the Economist Group, providing forecasting and advisory services through research and analysis, such as monthly country reports, five-year country economic forecasts, country risk service reports, and industry reports.
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Ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm.
Edam cheese
Edam (Edammer) is a semi-hard cheese that originated in the Netherlands, and is named after the town of Edam in the province of North Holland.
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Eighty Years' War
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt (Nederlandse Opstand) (c. 1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government.
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Eindhoven
Eindhoven is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also located in the Dutch part of the natural region the Campine.
Eindhoven Airport
Eindhoven Airport is an international airport located west of Eindhoven, Netherlands.
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Electric vehicle
An electric vehicle (EV) is a vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion.
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Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.
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Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.
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Elp culture
The Elp culture (c. 1800—800 BCE) is a Bronze Age archaeological culture of the Netherlands having earthenware pottery of low quality known as "Kümmerkeramik" (also "Grobkeramik") as a marker.
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Employers' organization
An employers' organization or employers' association is a collective organization of manufacturers, retailers, or other employers of wage labor.
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Enclave and exclave
An enclave is a territory that is entirely surrounded by the territory of only one other state or entity.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is the company known for publishing the Encyclopædia Britannica, the world's oldest continuously published encyclopaedia.
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Endemol
Endemol B.V. (stylized in lowercase) was a Dutch-based media company that produced and distributed multiplatform entertainment content.
Energy conservation
Energy conservation is the effort to reduce wasteful energy consumption by using fewer energy services.
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English Channel
The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.
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English in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, the English language can be spoken by the vast majority of the population, with estimates of English proficiency reaching 90% to 93% of the Dutch population.
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Enschede
Enschede (known as Eanske in the local Tweants dialect of Low Saxon) is a city and municipality in the province of Overijssel.
Environmental issues
Environmental issues are disruptions in the usual function of ecosystems.
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Epica (band)
Epica is a Dutch symphonic metal band, founded by guitarist and vocalist Mark Jansen after his departure from After Forever.
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Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus; 28 October c.1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.
Ertebølle culture
The Ertebølle culture (BCE – 3,950 BCE) is a hunter-gatherer and fisher, pottery-making culture dating to the end of the Mesolithic period.
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Estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
Euratom
The European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom) is an international organisation established by the Euratom Treaty on 25 March 1957 with the original purpose of creating a specialist market for nuclear power in Europe, by developing nuclear energy and distributing it to its member states while selling the surplus to non-member states.
Euro
The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the member states of the European Union.
Euro banknotes
Banknotes of the euro, the common currency of the eurozone (euro area members), have been in circulation since the first series (also called ES1) was issued in 2002.
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Euro coins
There are eight euro coin denominations, ranging from one cent to two euros (the euro is divided into a hundred cents).
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Euro Health Consumer Index
Euro Health Consumer Index (EHCI) was a comparison of European health care systems based on waiting times, results, and generosity.
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Eurodance
Eurodance (sometimes referred to as Euro-NRG, Euro-electronica or Euro) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in Europe.
Euronext
Euronext N.V. (short for European New Exchange Technology) is a pan-European bourse that provides trading and post-trade services for a range of financial instruments.
Euronext Amsterdam
Euronext Amsterdam is a stock exchange based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) is a European treaty (CETS 148) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages in Europe.
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European Coal and Steel Community
The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was a European organization created after World War II to integrate Europe's coal and steel industries into a single common market based on the principle of supranationalism which would be governed by the creation of a High Authority which would be made up of appointed representatives from the member states who would not represent their national interest, but would take and make decisions in the general interests of the Community as a whole.
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European Communities
The European Communities (EC) were three international organizations that were governed by the same set of institutions.
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European Cyclists' Federation
The European Cyclists' Federation (ECF) is a non-profit member-based umbrella federation of local, regional and national civil society organizations that promote cycling for both transportation and leisure.
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European Economic Community
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, as renamed by the Lisbon Treaty.
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European eel
The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is a species of eel.
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European integration
European integration is the process of industrial, economic, political, legal, social, and cultural integration of states wholly or partially in Europe, or nearby.
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European Men's Baseball Championship
The European Baseball Championship is the main championship tournament between national baseball teams in Europe, governed by the Confederation of European Baseball (CEB).
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European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Eurostat
Eurostat ('European Statistical Office'; DG ESTAT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in the Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (Concours Eurovision de la chanson), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union.
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Eurozone
The euro area, commonly called the eurozone (EZ), is a currency union of 20 member states of the European Union (EU) that have adopted the euro (€) as their primary currency and sole legal tender, and have thus fully implemented EMU policies.
Euthanasia in the Netherlands
Euthanasia in the Netherlands is regulated by the "Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act" which was passed in 2001 and took effect in 2002.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Evangelisch-Lutherse Kerk in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden) was a denomination in the Netherlands which under that name existed from 1818 to 2004.
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Executive (government)
The executive, also referred to as the juditian or executive power, is that part of government which executes the law; in other words, directly makes decisions and holds power.
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Expatriate
An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person who resides outside their country of citizenship.
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Expressionist architecture
Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts that especially developed and dominated in Germany.
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Extermination camp
Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (Todeslager), or killing centers (Tötungszentren), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust.
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Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba
Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo y Enríquez de Guzmán, 4th Duke of Alba, Grandee of Spain, (in full), (21 November 1537 – 3 September 1585), was a commander in the Spanish army during the Eighty Years' War.
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Famke Janssen
Famke Beumer Janssen (born 5 November 1964) is a Dutch actress and former model.
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Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3rd Duke of Alba (29 October 150711 December 1582), known as the Grand Duke of Alba (Grão Duque de Alba) in Spain and Portugal and as the Iron Duke (or shortly 'Alva') in the Netherlands, was a Spanish noble, general and diplomat.
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Fiat money
Fiat money is a type of currency that is not backed by a precious metal, such as gold or silver, or backed by any other tangible asset or commodity.
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Fief
A fief (feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law.
Field hockey
Field hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalkeeper.
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FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.
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First Canadian Army
The First Canadian Army (1reArmée canadienne) was a field army and a formation of the Canadian Army in World War II in which most Canadian elements serving in North-West Europe were assigned.
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Flag carrier
A flag carrier is a transport company, such as an airline or shipping company, that, being locally registered in a given sovereign state, enjoys preferential rights or privileges accorded by the government for international operations.
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Flanders
Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. Netherlands and Flanders are countries and territories where Dutch is an official language.
Flemish people
Flemish people or Flemings (Vlamingen) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Flanders, Belgium, who speak Flemish Dutch.
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Flemish Region
The Flemish Region (Vlaams Gewest), usually simply referred to as Flanders (Vlaanderen), is one of the three regions of Belgium—alongside the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region.
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Focus (band)
Focus is a Dutch progressive rock band formed in Amsterdam in 1969 by keyboardist, vocalist, and flautist Thijs van Leer, drummer Hans Cleuver, bassist Martijn Dresden, and guitarist Jan Akkerman.
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Foederati
Foederati (singular: foederatus) were peoples and cities bound by a treaty, known as foedus, with Rome.
Fons Rademakers
Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademakers (5 September 1920 – 22 February 2007) was a Dutch actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter.
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Foothills
Foothills or piedmont are geographically defined as gradual increases in elevation at the base of a mountain range, higher hill range or an upland area.
Foreign born
Foreign-born (also non-native) people are those born outside of their country of residence.
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Foreign policy
Foreign policy, also known as external policy, is the set of strategies and actions a state employs in its interactions with other states, unions, and international entities.
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Foreign relations of the Netherlands
The foreign policy of the Netherlands is based on four basic commitments: to the Atlantic cooperation, to European integration, to international development and to international law.
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Forestry
Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and environmental benefits.
Formula One
Formula One, commonly known as Formula 1 or F1, is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).
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France in the Middle Ages
The Kingdom of France in the Middle Ages (roughly, from the 10th century to the middle of the 15th century) was marked by the fragmentation of the Carolingian Empire and West Francia (843–987); the expansion of royal control by the House of Capet (987–1328), including their struggles with the virtually independent principalities (duchies and counties, such as the Norman and Angevin regions), and the creation and extension of administrative/state control (notably under Philip II Augustus and Louis IX) in the 13th century; and the rise of the House of Valois (1328–1589), including the protracted dynastic crisis against the House of Plantagenet and their Angevin Empire, culminating in the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) (compounded by the catastrophic Black Death in 1348), which laid the seeds for a more centralized and expanded state in the early modern period and the creation of a sense of French identity.
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Francia
The Kingdom of the Franks (Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.
Franco-Dutch War
The Franco-Dutch War was a European conflict that lasted from 1672 to 1678.
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Frankish language
Frankish (reconstructed endonym: *italic), also known as Old Franconian or Old Frankish, was the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks from the 5th to 9th century.
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French First Republic
In the history of France, the First Republic (Première République), sometimes referred to in historiography as Revolutionary France, and officially the French Republic (République française), was founded on 21 September 1792 during the French Revolution.
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French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
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French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars (Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802.
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Friesland
Friesland (official Fryslân), historically and traditionally known as Frisia, named after the Frisians, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part.
Frisia
Frisia is a cross-border cultural region in Northwestern Europe.
Frisian Kingdom
The Frisian Kingdom (Fryske Keninkryk), also known as Magna Frisia, is a modern name for the post-Roman Frisian realm in Western Europe in the period when it was at its largest (650–734).
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Frisian languages
The Frisian languages are a closely related group of West Germanic languages, spoken by about 400,000 Frisian people, who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany.
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Frisian–Frankish wars
The Frisian–Frankish wars were a series of conflicts between the Frankish Empire and the Frisian kingdom in the 7th and 8th centuries.
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Frisians
The Frisians are an ethnic group indigenous to the coastal regions of the Netherlands, north-western Germany and southern Denmark, and during the Early Middle Ages in the north-western coastal zone of Flanders, Belgium.
Frisii
The Frisii were an ancient tribe, living in the low-lying region between the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and the River Ems, sharing some cultural and linguistic elements with the neighbouring Celts.
Funnelbeaker culture
The Funnel(-neck-)beaker culture, in short TRB or TBK (Trichter(-rand-)becherkultur, Trechterbekercultuur; Tragtbægerkultur), was an archaeological culture in north-central Europe.
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Gallia Belgica
Gallia Belgica ("Belgic Gaul") was a province of the Roman Empire located in the north-eastern part of Roman Gaul, in what is today primarily northern France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, along with parts of the Netherlands and Germany.
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Gallic Wars
The Gallic Wars were waged between 58 and 50 BC by the Roman general Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland).
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Game (hunting)
Game or quarry is any wild animal hunted for animal products (primarily meat), for recreation ("sporting"), or for trophies.
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Gapminder Foundation
Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture registered in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic, and environmental development at local, national, and global levels.
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Gaul
Gaul (Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy.
Geert Wilders
Geert Wilders (born 6 September 1963) is a Dutch politician who has led the right-wing to far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) since he founded it in 2006.
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Gembloux
Gembloux (Djiblou; Gembloers) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Namur, Belgium.
General practitioner
A general practitioner (GP) or family physician is a doctor who is a consultant in general practice.
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Generality Lands
The Generality Lands, Lands of the Generality or Common Lands (Generaliteitslanden) were about one-fifth of the territories of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, that were directly governed by the States-General.
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George Baker Selection
George Baker Selection was a pop-rock band from Assendelft, the Netherlands.
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Gerard Reve
Gerard Kornelis van het Reve (14 December 1923 – 8 April 2006) was a Dutch writer.
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German bombing of Rotterdam
In 1940, Rotterdam was subjected to heavy aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe during the German invasion of the Netherlands during the Second World War.
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German invasion of the Netherlands
The German invasion of the Netherlands (Duitse aanval op Nederland), otherwise known as the Battle of the Netherlands (Slag om Nederland), was a military campaign part of Case Yellow (Fall Gelb), the Nazi German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) and France during World War II.
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Germania Antiqua
Germania (also sometimes called Germania Antiqua) was a short-lived Roman province for the duration of 16 years under Augustus, from 7 BC to AD 9.
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Germania Inferior
Germania Inferior ("Lower Germania") was a Roman province from AD 85 until the province was renamed Germania Secunda in the 4th century AD, on the west bank of the Rhine bordering the North Sea.
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Germania Superior
Germania Superior ("Upper Germania") was an imperial province of the Roman Empire.
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Germanic languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.
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Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe. Netherlands and Germany are countries in Europe, member states of NATO, member states of the European Union, member states of the United Nations, OECD members and western European countries.
Gerolf of Holland
Gerolf or Gerulf (c. 850 – 895/896) was the second count of this name who is attested in the area of Friesland (which also included Holland at the time).
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Get Ready for This
"Get Ready for This" is a song recorded by Belgian/Dutch music group 2 Unlimited.
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Gin
Gin is a distilled alcoholic drink flavoured with juniper berries and other botanical ingredients.
Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.
Global Competitiveness Report
The Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) was a yearly report published by the World Economic Forum.
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Global cuisine
The global cuisine or world cuisine is a cuisine that is practiced around the world.
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Global Enabling Trade Report
The Global Enabling Trade Report was first published in 2008 by the World Economic Forum.
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Global Innovation Index
The Global Innovation Index is an annual ranking of countries by their capacity for, and success in, innovation, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
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God Dethroned
God Dethroned is a Dutch extreme metal band from Beilen, originally formed in 1990.
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Godfrid, Duke of Frisia
Godfrid, Godafrid, Gudfrid, or Gottfrid (Guðfrið; murdered June 885) was a Danish Viking leader of the late ninth century.
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Golden Earring
Golden Earring was a Dutch rock band, founded in 1961 in The Hague as The Tornados.
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Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.
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Gouda cheese
Gouda cheese (Goudse kaas, "cheese from Gouda") is a creamy, yellow cow's milk cheese originating from the Netherlands.
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Grand ducal family of Luxembourg
The grand ducal family of Luxembourg constitutes the House of Luxembourg-Nassau, headed by the sovereign grand duke, and in which the throne of the grand duchy is hereditary.
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Greenhouse gas
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the gases in the atmosphere that raise the surface temperature of planets such as the Earth.
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Groningen
Groningen (Grunn or Grunnen) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands.
Groningen Airport Eelde
Groningen Airport Eelde is a minor international airport in the northeastern Netherlands.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Grote rivieren
The Grote rivieren, literally translated Great (or Large) rivers, is a landform in the Netherlands.
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Ground beef
Ground beef, minced beef or beef mince is beef that has been finely chopped with a knife, meat grinder (American English), mincer or mincing machine (British English).
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Group of Ten (IMF)
The Group of Ten (G-10 or G10) refers to the group of countries that agreed to participate in the General Arrangements to Borrow (GAB), an agreement to provide the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with additional funds to increase its lending ability.
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Guyana
Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city. Netherlands and Guyana are member states of the United Nations.
Gymnasium (school)
Gymnasium (and variations of the word) is a term in various European languages for a secondary school that prepares students for higher education at a university.
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Haarlem
Haarlem (predecessor of Harlem in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands.
Habitat conservation
Habitat conservation is a management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore habitats and prevent species extinction, fragmentation or reduction in range.
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Habsburg Netherlands
Habsburg Netherlands was the Renaissance period fiefs in the Low Countries held by the Holy Roman Empire's House of Habsburg.
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Hail of Bullets
Hail of Bullets was a Dutch old school death metal supergroup from Rotterdam.
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Hallstatt culture
The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Western and Central European archaeological culture of the Late Bronze Age (Hallstatt A, Hallstatt B) from the 12th to 8th centuries BC and Early Iron Age Europe (Hallstatt C, Hallstatt D) from the 8th to 6th centuries BC, developing out of the Urnfield culture of the 12th century BC (Late Bronze Age) and followed in much of its area by the La Tène culture.
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Hamburg culture
The Hamburg culture or Hamburgian (15,500-13,100 BP) was a Late Upper Paleolithic culture of reindeer hunters in northwestern Europe during the last part of the Weichsel Glaciation beginning during the Bölling interstadial.
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Hanseatic League
The Hanseatic League was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe.
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Hardwell
Robbert van de Corput (born 7 January 1988), known professionally as Hardwell, is a Dutch DJ and music producer from Breda.
Harry Mulisch
Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (29 July 192730 October 2010) was a Dutch writer.
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Haute cuisine
Haute cuisine or grande cuisine is a style of cooking characterised by meticulous preparation, elaborate presentation, and the use of high quality ingredients.
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Head of state
A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona of a sovereign state.
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Headhunterz
Willem Rebergen (born 12 September 1985), better known by his stage name Headhunterz, is a Dutch DJ and music producer.
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Health Consumer Powerhouse
Health Consumer Powerhouse is a Swedish health policy think tank which specialises in comparing healthcare systems throughout Europe.
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Health system
A health system, health care system or healthcare system is an organization of people, institutions, and resources that delivers health care services to meet the health needs of target populations.
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Heidevolk
Heidevolk is a folk metal band from the Netherlands.
Heineken N.V.
Heineken N.V. is a Dutch multinational brewing company, founded in 1864 by Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam.
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Hella Haasse
Hélène "Hella" Serafia Haasse (2 February 1918 – 29 September 2011) was a Dutch writer, often referred to as the "Grande Dame" of Dutch literature, and whose novel Oeroeg (1948) was a staple for generations of Dutch schoolchildren.
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Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (born Jheronimus van Aken; – 9 August 1516) was a Dutch painter from Brabant.
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Hilversum culture
The Hilversum culture is a prehistoric material culture found in middle Bronze Age in the region of the southern Netherlands and northern Belgium.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hinduism in the West
The reception of Hinduism in the Western world began in the 19th century, at first at an academic level of religious studies and antiquarian interest in Sanskrit.
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Hinterland
Hinterland is a German word meaning "the land behind" (a city, a port, or similar).
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
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History of the Jews in the Netherlands
The history of the Jews in the Netherlands largely dates to the late 16th century and 17th century, when Sephardic Jews from Portugal and Spain began to settle in Amsterdam and a few other Dutch cities, because the Netherlands was an unusual center of religious tolerance.
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Hoger algemeen voortgezet onderwijs
Hoger algemeen voortgezet onderwijs (havo, meaning "higher general continued education" in Dutch) is a stream in the secondary educational system of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Suriname.
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Holland
Holland is a geographical regionG.
Holland-class offshore patrol vessel
The Holland-class ocean-going patrol vessels are a class of four ocean-going patrol vessels constructed for the Royal Netherlands Navy.
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Hollandic dialect
Hollandic or Hollandish is the most widely spoken dialect of the Dutch language.
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Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.
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Hook and Cod wars
The Hook and Cod wars (Hoekse en Kabeljauwse twisten; sometimes semi-anglicised as the wars of the Hoecks and the Cabbeljaws) comprise a series of wars and battles in the County of Holland between 1350 and 1490.
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House music
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute.
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House of Habsburg
The House of Habsburg (Haus Habsburg), also known as the House of Austria, was one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history.
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House of Representatives (Netherlands)
The House of Representatives (literally "Second Chamber of the States General", or simply) is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands, the States General, the other one being the Senate.
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House of Valois-Burgundy
The House of Valois-Burgundy (Maison de Valois-Bourgogne, Huis van Valois-Bourgondië), or the Younger House of Burgundy, was a noble French family deriving from the royal House of Valois.
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Hoyte van Hoytema
Hoyte van Hoytema, (born 4 October 1971) is a Dutch-Swedish cinematographer.
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HSL-Zuid
The HSL-Zuid (Hogesnelheidslijn Zuid, South high-speed line), is a 125 kilometre-long (78 mile) Dutch high-speed railway line running between the Amsterdam metropolitan area and the Belgian border, with a branch to Breda, North Brabant.
Human height
Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect.
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Human migration
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region).
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Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually.
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Hunter-gatherer
A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, especially wild edible plants but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything safe to eat, and/or by hunting game (pursuing and/or trapping and killing wild animals, including catching fish).
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Hutspot
Hutspot (Dutch), hochepot (French), or hotchpotch (English), is a dish of boiled and mashed potatoes, carrots, and onions with a long history in traditional Dutch cuisine.
Ice sheet
In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than.
Ietsism
Ietsism (Ietsisme) is an unspecified belief in an undetermined transcendent reality.
IJssel
The IJssel (Iessel(t)) is a Dutch distributary of the river Rhine that flows northward and ultimately discharges into the IJsselmeer (before the 1932 completion of the Afsluitdijk known as the Zuiderzee), a North Sea natural harbour.
IJsselmeer
The IJsselmeer (Iselmar, Iesselmeer), also known as Lake IJssel in English, is a closed-off inland bay in the central Netherlands bordering the provinces of Flevoland, North Holland and Friesland.
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Ilse DeLange
Ilse Annoeska de Lange (born 13 May 1977), better known as Ilse DeLange, is a Dutch country and pop rock singer-songwriter.
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Individual ministerial responsibility
In Westminster-style governments, individual ministerial responsibility is a constitutional convention that a cabinet minister bears the ultimate responsibility for the actions of their ministry or department.
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Indo-Surinamese
Indo-Surinamese, Indian-Surinamese or Hindustani Surinamese are nationals of Suriname who trace their ancestry to the Indian subcontinent.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Netherlands and Indonesia are member states of the United Nations.
Indonesian National Revolution
The Indonesian National Revolution, also known as the Indonesian War of Independence (Indonesische Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog), was an armed conflict and diplomatic struggle between the Republic of Indonesia and the Dutch Empire and an internal social revolution during postwar and postcolonial Indonesia.
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ING Group
The ING Group (ING Groep) is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam.
Ingaevones
The Ingaevones were a Germanic cultural group living in the Northern Germania along the North Sea coast in the areas of Jutland, Holstein, and Lower Saxony in classical antiquity.
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Inland navigation
Inland navigation, inland barge transport or inland waterway transport (IWT) is a transport system allowing ships and barges to use inland waterways (such as canals, rivers and lakes).
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Institute for Jewish Policy Research
The Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR), founded as the Institute of Jewish Affairs, is a London-based research institute and think tank.
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Intensive farming
Intensive agriculture, also known as intensive farming (as opposed to extensive farming), conventional, or industrial agriculture, is a type of agriculture, both of crop plants and of animals, with higher levels of input and output per unit of agricultural land area.
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Interglacial
An interglacial period (or alternatively interglacial, interglaciation) is a geological interval of warmer global average temperature lasting thousands of years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age.
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International airport
An international airport is an airport with customs and border control facilities enabling passengers to travel between countries around the world.
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International court
International courts are formed by treaties between nations, or by an international organization such as the United Nations – and include ad hoc tribunals and permanent institutions but exclude any courts arising purely under national authority.
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International development
International development or global development is a broad concept denoting the idea that societies and countries have differing levels of economic or human development on an international scale.
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International Energy Agency
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organisation, established in 1974, that provides policy recommendations, analysis and data on the global energy sector.
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International Futures
International Futures (IFs) is a global integrated assessment model designed to help with thinking strategically and systematically about key global systems (economic, demographic, education, health, environment, technology, domestic governance, infrastructure, agriculture, energy and environment).
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International humanitarian law
International humanitarian law (IHL), also referred to as the laws of armed conflict, is the law that regulates the conduct of war (jus in bello).
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International Institute for Management Development
International Institute for Management Development (IMD) is an independent academic institute with campuses in Lausanne, Switzerland and Singapore.
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International law
International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.
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International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.
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International organization
An international organization, also known as an intergovernmental organization or an international institution, is an organization that is established by a treaty or other type of instrument governed by international law and possesses its own legal personality, such as the United Nations, the World Health Organization, International Union for Conservation of Nature, and NATO.
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International relations
International relations (IR) are the interactions among sovereign states.
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International Society for Krishna Consciousness
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organization.
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International trade
International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories because there is a need or want of goods or services.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. Netherlands and Iran are member states of the United Nations.
Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East. Netherlands and Iraq are member states of the United Nations.
Iron Age Europe
In Europe, the Iron Age is the last stage of the prehistoric period and the first of the protohistoric periods,The Junior Encyclopædia Britannica: A reference library of general knowledge.
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Irreligion
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.
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Irreligion in the Netherlands
Irreligion in the Netherlands pertains to atheism, agnosticism, and other forms of irreligion in the Netherlands.
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Isaac Le Maire
Isaac Le Maire (c. 1558 in Antwerp – September 20, 1624 in Egmond aan den Hoef) was a Dutch entrepreneur, investor, and a sizeable shareholder of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Islam in the Netherlands
Islam is the second largest religion in the Netherlands, after Christianity, and is practised by 5% of the population according to 2018 estimates.
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Islamic extremism
Islamic extremism, Islamist extremism or radical Islam refers a set of extremist beliefs, behaviors and ideology within Islam.
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ISO 4217
ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines alpha codes and numeric codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individual currencies and their minor units.
Istvaeones
The Istvaeones were a Germanic group of tribes living near the banks of the Rhine during the Roman Empire which reportedly shared a common culture and origin.
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Jacob van Ruisdael
Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (1629 – 10 March 1682) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher.
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Jan de Bont
Jan de Bont (born 22 October 1943) is a Dutch cinematographer, film director, and film producer.
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Jan Janssen
Johannes Adrianus "Jan" Janssen (born 19 May 1940) is a Dutch former professional cyclist (1962–1972).
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (April or May, 1562 – 16 October 1621) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras.
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Jan Steen
Jan Havickszoon Steen (– buried 3 February 1679) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, one of the leading genre painters of the 17th century.
Jan Wolkers
Jan Hendrik Wolkers (26 October 1925 – 19 October 2007) was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter.
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Janine Jansen
Janine Jansen (born 7 January 1978) is a Dutch violinist and violist.
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Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies
The Japanese Empire occupied the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) during World War II from March 1942 until after the end of the war in September 1945.
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Java War
The Java War (ꦥꦼꦫꦁꦗꦮ) or Diponegoro War (ꦥꦼꦫꦁꦢꦶꦥꦤꦼꦒꦫ) was fought in central Java from 1825 to 1830, between the colonial Dutch Empire and native Javanese rebels.
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Jenever
Jenever, also known as Hollands, genever, genièvre, peket, or sometimes as Dutch gin (archaic: Holland gin or Geneva gin), is the juniper-flavoured traditional liquor in the Netherlands, Belgium and adjoining areas in northern France and northwestern Germany.
Jeroen Krabbé
Jeroen Aart Krabbé (born 5 December 1944) is a Dutch actor and film director with a successful career in both Dutch- and English-language films.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Johan Cruyff
Hendrik Johannes Cruijff (25 April 1947 – 24 March 2016), commonly known as Johan Cruyff, was a Dutch professional football player and manager.
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Johan Neeskens
Johannes Jacobus Neeskens (born 15 September 1951) is a Dutch football manager and former player.
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Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer (see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.
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John de Mol Jr.
Johannes Hendrikus Hubert "John" de Mol Jr. is a Dutch media tycoon.
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John J. McCusker
John J. McCusker II is the Ewing Halsell Distinguished Professor of American History and Professor of Economics at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.
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John of Austria
John of Austria (Johann von Österreich, Juan de Austria; 24 February 1547 – 1 October 1578) was the illegitimate son of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
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Joop van den Ende
Johannes "Joop" Adrianus van den Ende (born 23 February 1942) is a Dutch theatrical producer, co-founder of international television production company Endemol and founder/owner of Stage Entertainment, Europe's largest live entertainment company.
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Joop Zoetemelk
Hendrik Gerardus Joseph "Joop" Zoetemelk (born 3 December 1946) is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist.
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Joost van den Vondel
Joost van den Vondel (17 November 1587 – 5 February 1679) was a Dutch playwright, poet, literary translator and writer.
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Joris Ivens
Georg Henri Anton "Joris" Ivens (18 November 1898 – 28 June 1989) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker.
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Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport
Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport is an airport on the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba.
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Julian (emperor)
Julian (Flavius Claudius Julianus; Ἰουλιανός; 331 – 26 June 363) was the Caesar of the West from 355 to 360 and Roman emperor from 361 to 363, as well as a notable philosopher and author in Greek.
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Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.
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Juniper
Junipers are coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae.
Jutes
The Jutes were one of the Germanic tribes who settled in Great Britain after the departure of the Romans.
K-1
K-1 is a professional kickboxing promotion established in 1993 by karateka Kazuyoshi Ishii.
K-1 World Grand Prix
K-1 World Grand Prix, also known as the K-1 World GP, is an elimination kickboxing tournament that was originally held annually from 1993 by the K-1 organization, under the ownership of the Fighting and Entertainment Group (FEG).
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King's commissioner
The King's commissioner (Commissaris van de Koning, abbreviated to CvdK) is the head of a province in the Netherlands.
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Kingdom of Holland
The Kingdom of Holland (Koningrijk Holland (contemporary), (modern); Royaume de Hollande) was the successor state of the Batavian Republic.
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Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)
The Kingdom of Italy (Regnum Italiae or Regnum Italicum; Regno d'Italia; Königreich Italien), also called Imperial Italy (Italia Imperiale, Reichsitalien), was one of the constituent kingdoms of the Holy Roman Empire, along with the kingdoms of Germany, Bohemia, and Burgundy.
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Kingdom of the Netherlands
The Kingdom of the Netherlands (Koninkrijk der Nederlanden), commonly known simply as the Netherlands, is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united under the monarch of the Netherlands, who functions as head of state. Netherlands and Kingdom of the Netherlands are member states of NATO, member states of the European Union and states and territories established in 1815.
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KLM
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, or simply KLM (an abbreviation for their official name Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V.), is the flag carrier of the Netherlands.
Kosovo War
The Kosovo War (Lufta e Kosovës; Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999.
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Kralendijk
Kralendijk is the capital city and main port of the island of Bonaire in the Caribbean Netherlands.
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Kriek lambic
Kriek lambic is a style of Belgian beer, made by fermenting lambic with sour Morello cherries.
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La Tène culture
The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture.
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Labour Party (Netherlands)
The Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid, abbreviated as PvdA or P van de A) is a social democratic political party in the Netherlands.
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Last Glacial Period
The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.
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Latinisation of names
Latinisation (or Latinization) of names, also known as onomastic Latinisation, is the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a modern Latin style.
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Leerdammer
Leerdammer is a Dutch semihard cheese made from cow's milk.
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Leeuwarden
Leeuwarden (longname /; Town Frisian: Liwwadden; Leeuwarder dialect: Leewarden) is a city and municipality in Friesland, Netherlands, with a population of 127,073 (2023).
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Leeward Antilles
The Leeward Antilles (Benedenwindse Eilanden) are a chain of islands in the Caribbean – specifically the southerly islands of the Lesser Antilles (and, in turn, the Antilles and the West Indies) along the southeastern fringe of the Caribbean Sea, just north of the Venezuelan coast of the South American mainland.
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Leeward Islands
The Leeward Islands are a group of islands situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean.
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Legislature
A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city.
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Lelystad
Lelystad is a Dutch municipality and the capital city of the province of Flevoland in the central Netherlands.
Lesser Antilles
The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.
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Levee
A levee, dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the course of rivers from changing and to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river or coast.
Levenslied
Levenslied (Dutch, literally "life song" or "song about life") is a sentimental Dutch-language subgenre of popular music.
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Leyden cheese
Leyden, from Leidse kaas, is a semi-hard, cumin and caraway seed flavoured cheese made in the Netherlands from cow's milk.
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LGBT rights in the Netherlands
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in the Netherlands are among the most advanced in the world.
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Liberalism in the Netherlands
Liberalism in the Netherlands started as an anti-monarchical effort spearheaded by the Dutch statesman Thorbecke, who almost single-handedly wrote the 1848 Constitution of the Netherlands that turned the country into a constitutional monarchy.
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Liberation Day (Netherlands)
Liberation Day (Bevrijdingsdag) is a public holiday in the Netherlands to mark the end of the Nazi occupation of the country during the Second World War.
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Life expectancy
Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.
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Limburg (Netherlands)
Limburg, also known as Dutch Limburg, is the southernmost of the twelve provinces of the Netherlands.
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Limburgish
Limburgish (Limburgs or Lèmburgs; Limburgs; Limburgisch; Limbourgeois), also called Limburgan, Limburgian, or Limburgic, is a West Germanic language spoken in Dutch Limburg, Belgian Limburg, and neighbouring regions of Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia).
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Limes Germanicus
The Limes Germanicus (Latin for Germanic frontier), or 'Germanic Limes', is the name given in modern times to a line of frontier (limes) fortifications that bounded the ancient Roman provinces of Germania Inferior, Germania Superior and Raetia, dividing the Roman Empire and the unsubdued Germanic tribes from the years 83 to about 260 AD.
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Linear Pottery culture
The Linear Pottery culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic period, flourishing.
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List of busiest ports in Europe
The table below lists 20 of the busiest ports in Europe; Rotterdam currently ranks first here, and eleventh in the world by cargo tonnage.
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List of countries and dependencies by area
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area.
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List of countries and dependencies by population density
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile.
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List of countries by GDP (nominal)
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year.
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List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
The figures presented here do not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of the country's currency.
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List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
A country's gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita is the PPP value of all final goods and services produced within an economy in a given year, divided by the average (or mid-year) population for the same year.
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List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions per capita
This is a list of sovereign states and territories by per capita greenhouse gas emissions due to certain forms of human activity, based on the created by European Commission.
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List of heavy metal festivals
This is an incomplete list of heavy metal festivals.
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List of metropolitan areas in Europe
This list ranks metropolitan areas in Europe by their population according to three different sources; it includes metropolitan areas that have a population of over 1 million.
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List of sovereign states by economic freedom
This article includes a partial list of countries by economic freedom that shows the top 50 highest ranking countries and regions from two reports on economic freedom.
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List of the busiest airports in Europe
This is a list of the 100 busiest airports in Europe, ranked by total passengers per year, including both terminal and transit passengers.
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Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is an American family of single-seat, single-engine, stealth multirole combat aircraft designed for air superiority and strike missions; it also has electronic warfare and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities.
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Loneliness
Loneliness is an unpleasant emotional response to perceived isolation.
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Lordship of Groningen
The Lordship of Groningen (Heerlijkheid Groningen) was a lordship under the rule of the House of Habsburg between 1536 and 1594, which is the present-day province of Groningen.
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Lordship of Overijssel
The Lordship of Overijssel or Overissel (Latin: Transisalania) is a former division of the Netherlands named for its position along the river Issel.
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Lordship of Utrecht
The Lordship of Utrecht was formed in 1528 when Charles V of Habsburg conquered the Bishopric of Utrecht, during the Guelders Wars.
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Lothair I
Lothair I (Dutch and Medieval Latin: Lotharius; German: Lothar; French: Lothaire; Italian: Lotario; 795 – 29 September 855) was a 9th-century Carolingian emperor (817–855, with his father until 840) and king of Italy (818–855) and Middle Francia (843–855).
Lothair II
Lothair II (835 – 8 August 869) was the king of Lotharingia from 855 until his death in 869.
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Lotharingia
Lotharingia was a medieval successor kingdom of the Carolingian Empire.
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Louis Andriessen
Louis Joseph Andriessen (6 June 1939 – 1 July 2021) was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher.
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Louis Bonaparte
Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (born Luigi Buonaparte; 2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846) was a younger brother of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French.
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Low Countries
The Low Countries (de Lage Landen; les Pays-Bas), historically also known as the Netherlands (de Nederlanden), is a coastal lowland region in Northwestern Europe forming the lower basin of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and consisting today of the three modern "Benelux" countries: Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (Nederland, which is singular).
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Low German
Low German is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands.
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Low-carbon economy
A low-carbon economy (LCE) is an economy which absorbs as much greenhouse gas as it emits.
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Lower house
A lower house is the lower chamber of a bicameral legislature, where second chamber is the upper house.
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Lower Lotharingia
The Duchy of Lower Lotharingia, also called Northern Lotharingia, Lower Lorraine or Northern Lorraine (and also referred to as Lothier or Lottier in titles), was a stem duchy established in 959, of the medieval Kingdom of Germany, which encompassed almost all of modern Belgium, Luxemburg, the northern part of the German Rhineland province and the eastern parts of France's Nord-Pas de Calais region, it also include almost all of modern Netherlands (the region of Frisia and the rest of the Netherlands was loosely associated with the duchy but duke exercised no de facto control over the territory).
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Lutheranism
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.
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Luxembourg
Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxemburg; Luxembourg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in Western Europe. Netherlands and Luxembourg are Benelux, countries in Europe, low Countries, member states of NATO, member states of the European Union, member states of the United Nations, OECD members, states and territories established in 1815 and western European countries.
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Maastricht
Maastricht (Mestreech; Maestricht; Mastrique) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands.
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Maastricht Aachen Airport
Maastricht Aachen Airport is a major cargo hub and regional passenger airport in Beek in Limburg, Netherlands, located northeast of Maastricht and northwest of Aachen, Germany.
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Maeslantkering
The Maeslantkering ("Maeslant barrier" in Dutch) is a storm surge barrier on the Nieuwe Waterweg, in South Holland, Netherlands.
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Maglemosian culture
Maglemosian (9000 – 6000 BC) is the name given to a culture of the early Mesolithic period in Northern Europe.
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Marco van Basten
Marcel "Marco" van Basten (born 31 October 1964) is a Dutch former football manager and player who played for Ajax and AC Milan, as well as the Netherlands national team.
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Maritime boundary
A maritime boundary is a conceptual division of Earth's water surface areas using physiographical or geopolitical criteria.
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Mark Rutte
Mark Rutte (born 14 February 1967) is a Dutch politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 2010 and 2024.
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Mayonnaise
Mayonnaise, colloquially referred to as "mayo", is a thick, cold, and creamy sauce commonly used on sandwiches, hamburgers, composed salads, and French fries.
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Menapii
The Menapii were a Belgic tribe dwelling near the North Sea, around present-day Cassel, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
Mesolithic
The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.
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Metworst
Metworst or droge worst ("dry sausage") is a type of traditional Dutch sausage.
Meuse
The Meuse (Moûze) or Maas (Maos or Maas) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta.
Meuse-Rhenish
In linguistics, Meuse-Rhenish (Rheinmaasländisch (Rhml.)) is a term with several meanings, used both in literary criticism and dialectology.
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Microorganism
A microorganism, or microbe, is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from sixth century BC India. The scientific study of microorganisms began with their observation under the microscope in the 1670s by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
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Microscope
A microscope is a laboratory instrument used to examine objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye.
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Middelburg, Zeeland
Middelburg is a city and municipality in the south-western Netherlands serving as the capital of the province of Zeeland.
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Middle Francia
Middle Francia (Francia media) was a short-lived Frankish kingdom which was created in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun after an intermittent civil war between the grandsons of Charlemagne resulted in division of the united empire.
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Migrant worker
A migrant worker is a person who migrates within a home country or outside it to pursue work.
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Migration Period
The Migration Period (circa 300 to 600 AD), also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories by various tribes, and the establishment of the post-Roman kingdoms.
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Minister without portfolio
A minister without portfolio is a government minister without specific responsibility as head of a government department.
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Mixed economy
A mixed economy is an economic system that accepts both private businesses and nationalized government services, like public utilities, safety, military, welfare, and education.
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Mohammed Bouyeri
Mohammed Bouyeri (محمد بويري; born 8 March 1978) is a Moroccan-Dutch Islamic terrorist serving a life sentence without parole at the Nieuw Vosseveld (Vught) prison for the 2004 murder of Dutch film director Theo van Gogh.
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Monarchy of the Netherlands
The monarchy of the Netherlands is governed the country's Constitution, roughly a third of which explains the mechanics of succession, accession, and abdication; the roles and duties of the monarch; the formalities of communication between the States General of the Netherlands; and the monarch's role in creating laws.
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Monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).
Moraine
A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sheet.
Moroccans in the Netherlands
Moroccans in the Netherlands, also Moroccan Dutch (Marokkaanse Nederlanders) or Dutch Moroccans (Nederlandse Marokkanen), are citizens or residents of the Netherlands of Moroccan origin.
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Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. Netherlands and Morocco are member states of the United Nations.
Mount Scenery
Mount Scenery is a dormant volcano in the Caribbean Netherlands.
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Mudflat
Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats or, in Ireland, slob or slobs, are coastal wetlands that form in intertidal areas where sediments have been deposited by tides or rivers.
Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.
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Multatuli
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 182019 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tulī, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia).
Multiculturalism
The term multiculturalism has a range of meanings within the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and colloquial use.
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Municipalities of the Netherlands
Since 1 January 2023, there have been 342 regular municipalities (gemeenten) and three special municipalities (bijzondere gemeenten) in the Netherlands.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Mustard (condiment)
Mustard is a condiment made from the seeds of a mustard plant (white/yellow mustard, Sinapis alba; brown mustard, Brassica juncea; or black mustard, Brassica nigra).
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Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.
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National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands
The National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging in Nederland,; NSB) was a Dutch fascist and later Nazi political organisation that eventually became a political party.
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
Neanderthal
Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans (generally regarded as a distinct species, though some regard it as a subspecies of Homo sapiens) who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.
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Nederlandse Omroep Stichting
The (NOS or rarely) is one of the broadcasting organisations making up the Dutch public broadcasting system.
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Nederpop
Nederpop or Dutch pop music is pop music made by Dutch bands and artists.
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Netherlands (European Parliament constituency)
The Netherlands is a European Parliament constituency for elections in the European Union covering the member state of Netherlands.
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Netherlands Antillean guilder
The Netherlands Antillean guilder (gulden; florin) is the currency of Curaçao and Sint Maarten, which until 2010 formed the Netherlands Antilles along with Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius.
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Netherlands Antilles
The Netherlands Antilles (Nederlandse Antillen,; Antia Hulandes) was a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles are countries and territories where Dutch is an official language.
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Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest
The Netherlands has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 64 times since making its debut as one of the seven countries at the first contest in.
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Netherlands national baseball team
The Netherlands national baseball team is the national baseball team of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, representing the country in international men's baseball.
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Netherlands national football team
The Netherlands national football team (Nederlands voetbalelftal or simply Het Nederlands elftal) has represented the Netherlands in international men's football matches since 1905.
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Netherlands women's national field hockey team
The Netherlands' national women's field hockey team is currently number one on the FIH world rankings and the reigning world champion.
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Netherlands women's national football team
The Netherlands women's national football team (Nederlands vrouwenvoetbalelftal) represents the Netherlands in international women's football, and is directed by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB), which is a member of UEFA and FIFA.
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Netherlands women's national volleyball team
The Netherlands women's national volleyball team is the national volleyball team of the Netherlands.
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Neutral country
A neutral country is a state that is neutral towards belligerents in a specific war or holds itself as permanently neutral in all future conflicts (including avoiding entering into military alliances such as NATO, CSTO or the SCO).
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New Amsterdam
New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam) was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland.
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New Netherland
New Netherland (Nieuw Nederland) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic located on the east coast of what is now the United States of America.
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Nick & Simon
Nick & Simon were a Dutch singer-songwriter duo composed of Simon Keizer and Nick Schilder.
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Nicky Romero
Nick Rotteveel (born 6 January 1989), professionally known as Nicky Romero or Monocule, is a Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer from Amerongen, Utrecht Province.
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Nijmegen
Nijmegen (Nijmeegs: italics) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and the tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole.
Nine Years' War
The Nine Years' War was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between France and the Grand Alliance.
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NOC*NSF
The Dutch Olympic Committee*Dutch Sports Federation, (Nederlands Olympisch Comité*Nederlandse Sport Federatie) generally abbreviated NOC*NSF, is the overall coordinating Dutch sports organisation that also functions as the Dutch National Olympic Committee and National Paralympic Committee.
Nomad
Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.
Nordwestblock
The Nordwestblock (German, "Northwest Block") is a hypothetical Northwestern European cultural region that some scholars propose as a prehistoric culture in the present-day Netherlands, Belgium, far-northern France, and northwestern Germany, in an area approximately bounded by the Somme, Oise, Meuse and Elbe rivers, possibly extending to the eastern part of what is now England, during the Bronze and Iron Ages from the 3rd to the 1st millennia BCE, up to the onset of historical sources, in the 1st century BCE.
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North Brabant
North Brabant (Noord-Brabant; Brabantian), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands.
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North Holland
North Holland (Noord-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands in the northwestern part of the country.
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North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
North Sea flood of 1953
The 1953 North Sea flood (Watersnoodramp) was a major flood caused by a heavy storm surge that struck the Netherlands, north-west Belgium, England and Scotland.
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North Sea Germanic
North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic, is a postulated grouping of the northern West Germanic languages that consists of Old Frisian, Old English, and Old Saxon, and their descendants.
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Northwestern Europe
Northwestern Europe, or Northwest Europe, is a loosely defined subregion of Europe, overlapping Northern and Western Europe.
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NRC Handelsblad
NRC, previously called, is a daily morning newspaper published in the Netherlands by NRC Media.
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NU.nl
NU.nl is a Dutch online newspaper.
OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
Offshore wind power
Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the generation of electricity through wind farms in bodies of water, usually at sea.
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Old Dutch
In linguistics, Old Dutch (Modern Dutch: Oudnederlands) or Old Low Franconian (Modern Dutch: Oudnederfrankisch) is the set of dialects that evolved from Frankish spoken in the Low Countries during the Early Middle Ages, from around the 6th Page 55: "Uit de zesde eeuw dateren de oudst bekende geschreven woorden en tekstjes in de Lage Landen, waarmee de periode van het oud-Nederlands begint." or 9th Page 27: "Aan het einde van de negende eeuw kan er zeker van Nederlands gesproken worden; hoe long daarvoor dat ook het geval was, kan niet met zekerheid worden uitgemaakt." to the 12th century.
Om Prakash (historian)
Om Prakash (born January 1940, in Delhi) is an Indian economic historian.
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Orangism (Dutch Republic)
In the history of the Dutch Republic, Orangism or prinsgezindheid ("pro-prince stance") was a political force opposing the ''Staatsgezinde'' (pro-Republic) party.
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Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius
Oranjestad (Dutch: Prins van Oranje) and related articles for more. Town) is a small town of 1,038 inhabitants; it is the capital and largest town of the island of Sint Eustatius in the Caribbean Netherlands.
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Outline of the Netherlands
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Netherlands.
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Overijssel
Overijssel (Oaveriessel; Oberyssel) is a province of the Netherlands located in the eastern part of the country.
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Oxfam
Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent non-governmental organizations (NGOs), focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International.
Oyster
Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats.
Pacification of 1917
The Pacification of 1917 was a political agreement between liberals and socialists on the left and some Christian parties on the right in the Netherlands, ending both the suffrage issue and the school struggle.
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Papiamento
Papiamento or Papiamentu (Papiaments) is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken in the Dutch Caribbean.
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Parliamentary system
A parliamentary system, or parliamentary democracy, is a system of democratic government where the head of government (who may also be the head of state) derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support ("confidence") of the legislature, typically a parliament, to which they are accountable.
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Pars pro toto
paren), is a figure of speech where the name of a portion of an object, place, or concept is used or taken to represent its entirety. It is distinct from a merism, which is a reference to a whole by an enumeration of parts; metonymy, where an object, place, or concept is called by something or some place associated with it; or synecdoche, which can refer both to pars pro toto and its inverse, the whole for a part.
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Party for Freedom
The Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) is a nationalist and right-wing populistMerijn Oudenampsen (2013).
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Party-list proportional representation
Party-list proportional representation (list-PR) is a system of proportional representation based on preregistered political parties, with each party being allocated a certain number of seats roughly proportional to their share of the vote.
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Pastoralism
Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands (pastures) for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds.
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Patriottentijd
The Patriottentijd was a period of political instability in the Dutch Republic between approximately 1780 and 1787.
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Paul Verhoeven
Paul Verhoeven (born 18 July 1938) is a Dutch film director.
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Peace of Münster
The Peace of Münster was a treaty between the Lords States General of the Seven United Netherlands and the Spanish Crown, the terms of which were agreed on 30 January 1648.
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Peace of Utrecht
The Peace of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht between April 1713 and February 1715.
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Peat
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter.
Pejorative
A pejorative word, phrase, slur, or derogatory term is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect toward someone or something.
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Pendulum clock
A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element.
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Pentecost
Pentecost (also called Whit Sunday, Whitsunday or Whitsun) is a Christian holiday which takes place on the 49th day (50th day when inclusive counting is used) after Easter Day.
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie, VVD) is a conservative-liberal political party in the Netherlands.
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Personal union
A personal union is a combination of two or more monarchical states that have the same monarch while their boundaries, laws, and interests remain distinct.
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Pesse canoe
The Pesse canoe is believed to be one of the world's oldest-known boats.
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Petrochemical
Petrochemicals (sometimes abbreviated as petchems) are the chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining.
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Philip IV of Spain
Philip IV (Felipe Domingo Victor de la Cruz de Austria y Austria, Filipe; 8 April 160517 September 1665), also called the Planet King (Spanish: Rey Planeta), was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640.
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Philip the Good
Philip III the Good (Philippe le Bon.; Filips de Goede.; 31 July 1396 in Dijon – 15 June 1467 in Bruges) ruled as Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death in 1467.
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Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V., commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891.
Phytogeography
Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, phytón.
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Piet Mondrian
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian (also,; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (– 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings.
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Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (16 March 158121 May 1647) - Knight in the Order of Saint Michael - was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright who lived during the Dutch Golden Age in literature.
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Pillarisation
Pillarisation (from the verzuiling) is the vertical separation of citizens into groups by religion and associated political beliefs.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Polder
A polder is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes.
Port of Amsterdam
The port of Amsterdam (Haven van Amsterdam) is an inland seaport in Amsterdam in North Holland, Netherlands.
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Port of Rotterdam
The Port of Rotterdam is the largest seaport in Europe, and the world's largest seaport outside of East Asia, located in and near the city of Rotterdam, in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands.
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Prime Minister of the Netherlands
The prime minister of the Netherlands (Minister-president van Nederland) is the head of the executive branch of the Government of the Netherlands.
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Primus inter pares
Primus inter pares is a Latin phrase meaning first among equals.
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Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht
The Bishopric of Utrecht (Sticht Utrecht) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries, in the present-day Netherlands.
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Prostitution in the Netherlands
Prostitution in the Netherlands is legal and regulated.
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Protestant Church in the Netherlands
The Protestant Church in the Netherlands (de Protestantse Kerk in Nederland, abbreviated PKN) is the largest Protestant denomination in the Netherlands, being both Calvinist and Lutheran.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Proto-industrialization
Proto-industrialization is the regional development, alongside commercial agriculture, of rural handicraft production for external markets.
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Provinces of the Netherlands
There are twelve provinces of the Netherlands representing the administrative layer between the national government and the local governments, with responsibility for matters of subnational or regional importance.
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Provincial council (Netherlands)
The provincial council (PS), also known as the States-Provincial, is the provincial parliament and legislative assembly in each of the provinces of the Netherlands.
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Public body (Netherlands)
In the Netherlands, the term public body (a literal translation from the Dutch term) is the general denomination for administrative divisions within the Dutch state, such as the central government, a province, a municipality or a water board.
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Puerto Rico
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Pytheas
Pytheas of Massalia (Ancient Greek: Πυθέας ὁ Μασσαλιώτης Pythéās ho Massaliōtēs; Latin: Pytheas Massiliensis; born 350 BC, 320–306 BC) was a Greek geographer, explorer and astronomer from the Greek colony of Massalia (modern-day Marseille, France).
Rabobank
Rabobank (full name: Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A.) is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Radbod of Frisia
Radbod (died 719) was the king (or duke) of Frisia from c. 680 until his death.
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Railway stations in the Netherlands
There are currently 401 railway stations in the Netherlands including four which are used only during special events and one which serves the National Railway Museum only.
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Rampjaar
In Dutch history, the year 1672 is referred to as the label (Disaster Year, pronounced /ˈrɑmp.jaːr/).
Randstad
The Randstad ("Rim City" or "Edge City") is a roughly crescent- or arc-shaped conurbation in the Netherlands, that houses almost half the country's population.
Randstad NV
Randstad NV, commonly known as Randstad and stylized as randstad, is a Dutch multinational human resource consulting firm headquartered in Diemen, Netherlands.
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Reformed Christianity
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church.
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Reformed Churches in the Netherlands
The Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland, abbreviated Gereformeerde kerk) was the second largest Protestant church in the Netherlands and one of the two major Calvinist denominations along with the Dutch Reformed Church since 1892 until being merged into the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN) in 2004.
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Reformed Political Party
The Reformed Political Party (Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij, SGP) is a conservative CalvinistThese sources describe the SGP as a Calvinist political party.
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Refugee
A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a person who has lost the protection of their country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there due to well-founded fear of persecution. Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by a contracting state or by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) if they formally make a claim for asylum.
Regional language
* A regional language is a language spoken in a region of a sovereign state, whether it be a small area, a federated state or province or some wider area.
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Reindeer
The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.
Religion in the Netherlands
Religion in the Netherlands was dominated by Christianity between the 10th and 20th centuries.
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Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.
Renewable energy
Renewable energy (or green energy) is energy from renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human timescale.
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ReVamp
ReVamp was a Dutch progressive metal band formed by singer Floor Jansen after her previous band After Forever disbanded in 2009.
Revolt of the Batavi
The Revolt of the Batavi took place in the Roman province of Germania Inferior ("Lower Germania") between AD 69 and 70.
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Rhine
--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.
Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta
The Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta is a river delta in the Netherlands formed by the confluence of the Rhine, the Meuse (Maas) and the Scheldt rivers.
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Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam.
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River delta
A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by the deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.
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RoboCop
RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner.
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
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Roman province
The Roman provinces (pl.) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire.
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Romance languages
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.
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Romanesque architecture
Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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Romani language
Romani (also Romany, Romanes, Roma; rromani ćhib) is an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities.
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Romani people
The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.
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Rooftop solar power
A rooftop solar power system, or rooftop PV system, is a photovoltaic (PV) system that has its electricity-generating solar panels mounted on the rooftop of a residential or commercial building or structure.
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Rookworst
Rookworst (smoked sausage) or Gelderse rookworst is a type of Dutch sausage in which ground meat is mixed with spices and salt and stuffed into a casing.
Room for the River (Netherlands)
In the Netherlands, Room for the River (Ruimte voor de Rivier) is a government design plan intended to address flood protection, master landscaping and the improvement of environmental conditions in the areas surrounding the Netherlands' rivers.
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Rorik of Dorestad
Rorik (Roricus, Rorichus; Hrœrekr; –) was a Danish Viking, who ruled over parts of Friesland between 841 and 873, conquering Dorestad and Utrecht in 850.
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Rotterdam
Rotterdam (lit. "The Dam on the River Rotte") is the second-largest city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam.
Rotterdam The Hague Airport
Rotterdam The Hague Airport (formerly Rotterdam Airport, Vliegveld Zestienhoven in Dutch), is a minor international airport serving Rotterdam, the Netherlands' second largest city, and The Hague, its administrative and royal capital.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Rowwen Hèze
Rowwen Hèze is a band from the small village of America in the province of Limburg, the Netherlands.
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Royal Marechaussee
The Royal Marechaussee (Koninklijke Marechaussee, abbreviated to KMar) also translated as the Royal Military Constabulary, is the national gendarmerie force of the Netherlands, performing military and civilian police duties.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
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Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands.
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Royal Netherlands Air Force
The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF; Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu), "Royal Air Force") is the military aviation branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces.
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Royal Netherlands Army
The Royal Netherlands Army (Koninklijke Landmacht, KL) is the land branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces.
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Royal Netherlands Navy
The Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine) is the maritime service branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces.
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Rutger Hauer
Rutger Oelsen Hauer (born; 23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019) was a Dutch actor.
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Ruud Gullit
Ruud Gullit (born Rudi Dil; 1 September 1962) is a Dutch former footballer and subsequent manager who played professionally in the 1980s and 1990s as a forward, midfielder or defender.
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Rye bread
Rye bread is a type of bread made with various proportions of flour from rye grain.
Saba (island)
Saba is a Caribbean island and the smallest special municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands. Netherlands and Saba (island) are countries and territories where Dutch is an official language.
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Sack of Antwerp
The sack of Antwerp, often known as the Spanish Fury at Antwerp, was an episode of the Eighty Years' War.
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Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003.
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Saint Barthélemy
Saint Barthélemy (Saint-Barthélemy), officially the Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Barthélemy, also known as St.
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Saint Boniface
Boniface (born Wynfreth; 675 – 5 June 754) was an English Benedictine monk and leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of Francia during the eighth century.
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Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis, officially the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, is an island country consisting of the two islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, both located in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands chain of the Lesser Antilles. Netherlands and Saint Kitts and Nevis are member states of the United Nations.
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Salian Franks
The Salian Franks, also called the Salians (Latin: Salii; Greek: Σάλιοι, Salioi), were a northwestern subgroup of the early Franks who appear in the historical record in the fourth and fifth centuries.
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Salic law
The Salic law (or; Lex salica), also called the was the ancient Frankish civil law code compiled around AD 500 by the first Frankish King, Clovis.
Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands
Same-sex marriage has been legal in the Netherlands since 1 April 2001.
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Sander van Doorn
Sander Ketelaars (born 28 February 1979), better known by his stage name Sander van Doorn or the initials SvD, is a Dutch electro house DJ and record producer from Eindhoven.
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Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
Sauerkraut
Sauerkraut is finely cut raw cabbage that has been fermented by various lactic acid bacteria.
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Saxons
The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons, were the Germanic people of "Old" Saxony (Antiqua Saxonia) which became a Carolingian "stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany.
Scheldt
The Scheldt (Escaut; Schelde) is a river that flows through northern France, western Belgium, and the southwestern part of the Netherlands, with its mouth at the North Sea.
Schengen Area
The Schengen Area is an area encompassing European countries that have officially abolished border controls at their mutual borders.
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Schiphol Group
Royal Schiphol Group is a Dutch airport management company.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Scottish people
The Scottish people or Scots (Scots fowk; Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland.
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Sea level rise
Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rise was, with an increase of per year since the 1970s.
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Seignory of Frisia
The Seignory of Frisia or Seignory of Friesland (Hearlikheid Fryslân, Heerlijkheid Friesland) was a feudal dominion in the Netherlands.
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Seine–Oise–Marne culture
The Seine–Oise–Marne or SOM culture is the name given by archaeologists to the final culture of the Neolithic and first culture of the Chalcolithic in northern France and southern Belgium.
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Senate (Netherlands)
The Senate (literally "First Chamber of the States General", or simply, sometimes) is the upper house of the States General, the legislature of the Netherlands.
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Seventeen Provinces
The Seventeen Provinces were the Imperial states of the Habsburg Netherlands in the 16th century.
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Shell plc
Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.
Shocking Blue
Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band formed in The Hague in 1967.
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Shrimp
A shrimp (shrimp (US) or shrimps (UK) is a crustacean (a form of shellfish) with an elongated body and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion – typically belonging to the Caridea or Dendrobranchiata of the order Decapoda, although some crustaceans outside of this order are also referred to as "shrimp".
Sint Eustatius
Sint Eustatius, known locally as Statia, is an island in the Caribbean. Netherlands and Sint Eustatius are countries and territories where Dutch is an official language.
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Sint Maarten
Sint Maarten is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean region of North America. Netherlands and Sint Maarten are countries and territories where Dutch is an official language.
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Sinte Romani
Sinte Romani (also known as Sintitikes, Manuš) is the variety of Romani spoken by the Sinti people in Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, some parts of Northern Italy and other adjacent regions.
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Sinti
The Sinti (also Sinta or Sinte; masc. sing. Sinto; fem. sing. Sintesa) are a subgroup of Romani people.
Slechtvalk
Slechtvalk (the Dutch word for peregrine falcon) is a Christian black metal band from the Netherlands, formed in 1999.
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Social and Economic Council
The Social and Economic Council (Dutch: Sociaal-Economische Raad, SER) is a major economic advisory council to the cabinet of the Netherlands.
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Social democracy
Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and supports a gradualist, reformist and democratic approach towards achieving socialism.
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Soil fertility
Soil fertility refers to the ability of soil to sustain agricultural plant growth, i.e. to provide plant habitat and result in sustained and consistent yields of high quality.
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Soldier of Orange
Soldier of Orange (Soldaat van Oranje) (released in the United Kingdom as Survival Run) is a 1977 Dutch romantic war thriller film directed and co-written by Paul Verhoeven and produced by Rob Houwer, based on Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema's autobiographical book of the same name.
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Somalia
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. Netherlands and Somalia are member states of the United Nations.
Soused herring
Soused herring is raw herring soaked in a mild preserving liquid.
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South Holland
South Holland (Zuid-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands with a population of over 3.8 million as of January 2023 and a population density of about, making it the country's most populous province and one of the world's most densely populated areas.
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Southern Netherlands
The Southern Netherlands, also called the Catholic Netherlands, were the parts of the Low Countries belonging to the Holy Roman Empire which were at first largely controlled by Habsburg Spain (Spanish Netherlands, 1556–1714) and later by the Austrian Habsburgs (Austrian Netherlands, 1714–1794) until occupied and annexed by Revolutionary France (1794–1815).
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Sovereign state
A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.
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Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.
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Spanish Netherlands
The Spanish Netherlands (Países Bajos Españoles; Spaanse Nederlanden; Pays-Bas espagnols; Spanische Niederlande) (historically in Spanish: Flandes, the name "Flanders" was used as a pars pro toto) was the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to 1714.
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Spetters
Spetters (English translation: Splashes) is a Dutch film released in 1980 and directed by Paul Verhoeven.
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated (SI) is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. Netherlands and Sri Lanka are member states of the United Nations.
SSS islands
The SSS islands, locally also known as the Windward Islands, is a collective term for the three territories of the Dutch Caribbean (formerly the Netherlands Antilles) that are located within the Leeward Islands group of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.
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St. Elizabeth's flood (1421)
The St.
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St. Lucia's flood
North Holland, 1st-10th century St.
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Staatsbosbeheer
Staatsbosbeheer, founded in 1899, is a Dutch government organization for forestry and the management of nature reserves.
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Stadtholder
In the Low Countries, a stadtholder (stadhouder) was a steward, first appointed as a medieval official and ultimately functioning as a national leader.
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Stamppot
(English: 'mash pot') is a traditional Dutch dish made from a combination of potatoes mashed with one or several vegetables and typically garnished with sausages.
States General of the Netherlands
The States General of the Netherlands (Staten-Generaal) is the supreme bicameral legislature of the Netherlands consisting of the Senate (Eerste Kamer) and the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer).
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Statistics Netherlands
Statistics Netherlands, founded in 1899, is a Dutch governmental institution that gathers statistical information about the Netherlands.
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Street food
Street food is food sold by a hawker or vendor on a street or at another public place, such as a market, fair, or park.
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Sub-replacement fertility
Sub-replacement fertility is a total fertility rate (TFR) that (if sustained) leads to each new generation being less populous than the older, previous one in a given area.
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Submission (2004 film)
Submission is a 2004 English-language Dutch short drama film produced and directed by Theo van Gogh, and written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (a former member of the Dutch House of Representatives for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy); it was shown on NPO 3, a Dutch public broadcasting network, on 29 August 2004.
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Summer Olympic Games
The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years.
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Supreme Court of the Netherlands
The Supreme Court of the Netherlands (Hoge Raad der Nederlanden or simply Hoge Raad), officially the High Council of the Netherlands, is the final court of appeal in civil, criminal and tax cases in the Netherlands, including Curaçao, Sint Maarten and Aruba.
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Surinam (Dutch colony)
Surinam (Suriname), also unofficially known as Dutch Guiana, was a Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas, bordered by the equally Dutch colony of Berbice to the west, and the French colony of Cayenne to the east. Netherlands and Surinam (Dutch colony) are countries and territories where Dutch is an official language.
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Suriname
Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname (Republiek Suriname), is a country in northern South America, sometimes considered part of the Caribbean and the West Indies. Netherlands and Suriname are countries and territories where Dutch is an official language and member states of the United Nations.
Surinamese people
Surinamese people are people who identify with the country of Suriname.
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Surinamese people in the Netherlands
Surinamese people in the Netherlands (Surinamers in Nederland) are people in the Netherlands who come from a Surinamese background.
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Swamp
A swamp is a forested wetland.
Swifterbant culture
The Swifterbant culture was a Subneolithic archaeological culture in the Netherlands, dated between 5300 BC and 3400 BC.
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Symphonic metal
Symphonic metal is a cross-generic style designation for the symphonic subsets of heavy metal music subgenres.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
Tee-Set
Tee-Set was a pop rock band formed in 1965 by singer Peter Tetteroo in Delft, Netherlands.
Telephone numbers in Curaçao and the Caribbean Netherlands
The country code 599 was assigned to the Netherlands Antilles (dissolved in 2010), and is in use by Curaçao and the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba).
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Telephone numbers in the Netherlands
Telephone numbers in the Netherlands are administered by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation of the Netherlands.
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Tercio
A tercio, Spanish for " third") was a military unit of the Spanish Army during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and Habsburg Spain in the early modern period. They were the elite military units of the Spanish monarchy and the essential pieces of the powerful land forces of the Spanish Empire, sometimes also fighting with the navy.
Terminology of the Low Countries
The Low Countries comprise the coastal Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta region in Western Europe, whose definition usually includes the modern countries of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Terp
A terp, also known as a wierde, woerd, warf, warft, werf, werve, wurt or værft, is an artificial dwelling mound found on the North European Plain that has been created to provide safe ground during storm surges, high tides and sea or river flooding.
Textures (band)
Textures are a Dutch progressive metal band, formed in 2001.
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The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Bottom
The Bottom (formerly Botte) is the capital and largest town of the island of Saba, the Caribbean Netherlands.
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl, commonly referred to as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
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The Economist Democracy Index
The Democracy Index published by the Economist Group is an index measuring the quality of democracy across the world.
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The Fourth Man (1983 film)
The Fourth Man (De vierde man) is a 1983 Dutch psychological-erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk and Thom Hoffman.
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The Gathering (band)
The Gathering are a Dutch rock band formed in Oss, North Brabant in 1989.
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The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands.
The Tower of Babel (Bruegel)
The Tower of Babel was the subject of three paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
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Theo van Gogh (film director)
Theodoor "Theo" van Gogh (23 July 1957 – 2 November 2004) was a Dutch film director.
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Theodiscus
Theodiscus (in Medieval Latin, corresponding to Old English þēodisc, Old High German diutisc and other early Germanic reflexes of Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz, meaning "popular" or "of the people") was a term used in the early Middle Ages to refer to the West Germanic languages.
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Third Anglo-Dutch War
The Third Anglo-Dutch War, began on 27 March 1672, and concluded on 19 February 1674.
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Tiësto
Tijs Michiel Verwest OON (born 17 January 1969), known professionally as Tiësto, is a Dutch DJ and music producer.
Titan (moon)
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest in the Solar System.
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Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian, was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting.
Toleration
Toleration is when one allows, permits, an action, idea, object, or person that one dislikes or disagrees with.
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Tom Dumoulin
Tom Dumoulin (born 11 November 1990) is a retired Dutch professional road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI WorldTeam.
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TomTom
TomTom N.V. is a Dutch multinational developer and creator of location technology and consumer electronics.
Ton Koopman
Antonius Gerhardus Michael Koopman (born 2 October 1944), known professionally as Ton Koopman, is a Dutch conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and musicologist, primarily known for being the founder and director of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir.
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Toponymy
Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types.
Total fertility rate
The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of their reproductive life.
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Total Recall (1990 film)
Total Recall is a 1990 American science-fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, with a screenplay by Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, and Gary Goldman.
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Trading post
A trading post, trading station, or trading house, also known as a factory in European and colonial contexts, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded.
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Traditionalist School (architecture)
Traditionalist architecture is an architectural movement in Europe since the beginning of the 20th century in the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany et al.
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Transshipment
Transshipment, trans-shipment or transhipment is the shipment of goods or containers to an intermediate destination, then to another destination.
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Trappist beer
Trappist beer is brewed by Trappist monks.
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Treaty of Brussels
The Treaty of Brussels, also referred to as the Brussels Pact, was the founding treaty of the Western Union (WU) between 1948 and 1954, when it was amended as the Modified Brussels Treaty (MTB) and served as the founding treaty of the Western European Union (WEU) until its termination in 2010.
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Tributary
A tributary, or an affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (main stem or "parent"), river, or a lake.
Tulip
Tulips are spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes in the Tulipa genus.
Tulip mania
Tulip mania (tulpenmanie) was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. Netherlands and Turkey are countries in Europe, member states of NATO and member states of the United Nations.
Turkish Delight (1973 film)
Turkish Delight (Turks fruit) is a 1973 Dutch erotic romantic drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven from a screenplay by Gerard Soeteman, based on the 1969 novel Turks Fruit by Jan Wolkers.
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Turkish language
Turkish (Türkçe, Türk dili also Türkiye Türkçesi 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 90 to 100 million speakers.
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Turks in the Netherlands
Turks in the Netherlands (Turken in Nederland; Hollanda'daki Türkler), also Dutch Turks (Nederlandse Turken) or Turkish Dutch (Turkse Nederlanders; Hollanda Türkleri), refers to people of full or partial Turkish ethnicity living in the Netherlands.
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Tweants dialect
Tweants (Tweants pronunciation:; Twents) is a group of non-standardised Dutch Low Saxon dialects, descending from Old Saxon.
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Twente
Twente (Twente, Tweants dialect: Tweante) is a region in the eastern Netherlands.
UEFA European Championship
The UEFA European Football Championship, less formally the European Championship and informally the Euro or Euros, is the primary association football tournament organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).
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Undersecretary
Undersecretary (or under secretary) is a title for a person who works for and has a lower rank than a secretary (person in charge).
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
UNICEF
UNICEF, originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
Union of Arras
The Union of Arras (Dutch: Unie van Atrecht, French: Union d'Arras, Spanish: Unión de Arrás) was an alliance between the County of Artois, the County of Hainaut and the city of Douai in the Habsburg Netherlands in early 1579 during the Eighty Years' War.
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Union of Utrecht
The Union of Utrecht (Unie van Utrecht) was a treaty signed on 23 January 1579 in Utrecht, Netherlands, unifying the northern provinces of the Netherlands, until then under the control of Habsburg Spain.
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Unitary state
A unitary state is a sovereign state governed as a single entity in which the central government is the supreme authority.
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United and uniting churches
A united church, also called a uniting church, is a denomination formed from the merger or other form of church union of two or more different Protestant Christian denominations, a number of which come from separate and distinct denominational orientations or traditions.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. Netherlands and United Kingdom are countries in Europe, member states of NATO, member states of the United Nations and OECD members.
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United Kingdom of the Netherlands
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands (Verenigd Koninkrijk der Nederlanden; Royaume uni des Pays-Bas) is the unofficial name given to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Koninkrijk der Nederlanden; Royaume des Belgiques) as it existed between 1815 and 1830. Netherlands and United Kingdom of the Netherlands are states and territories established in 1815.
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United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
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United States Virgin Islands
The United States Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States.
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Universal Newsreel
Universal Newsreel (sometimes known as Universal-International Newsreel or just U-I Newsreel) was a series of 7- to 10-minute newsreels that were released twice a week between 1929 and 1967 by Universal Studios.
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Upper house
An upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house.
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Upper Paleolithic
The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.
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UTC+01:00
UTC+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00.
UTC+02:00
UTC+02:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +02:00.
UTC−04:00
UTC−04:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −04:00.
Utrecht
Utrecht (Utrecht dialect) is the fourth-largest city of the Netherlands, as well as the capital and the most populous city of the province of Utrecht.
Utrecht (province)
Utrecht, officially the Province of Utrecht (Provincie Utrecht), is a province of the Netherlands.
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Vaalserberg
The Vaalserberg is a hill with a height of above NAP and is the highest point in the European part of the Netherlands.
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Veluwe
The Veluwe is a forest-rich ridge of hills (1100 km2; 420 sq. mi.) in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands.
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. Netherlands and Venezuela are member states of the United Nations.
Vereniging Natuurmonumenten
Vereniging tot Behoud van Natuurmonumenten in Nederland (Society for Preservation of Nature Monuments in the Netherlands), also known as Vereniging Natuurmonumenten, is a Dutch nature conservation organization founded in 1905 by Jacobus Pieter Thijsse and Eli Heimans, that buys, protects, and manages nature reserves in the Netherlands.
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Victory in Europe Day
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May.
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.
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Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands (Islas Vírgenes) are an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea.
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Vlaai
Limburgse vlaai (Limburgish: vlaai, vlaoj, vla or flaai. Plural: vlaaien)Koene, A. (2006).
Vocational university
A vocational university or university of applied sciences (UAS), less commonly called a polytechnic university is an institution of higher education and increasingly research that provides applied professional education and grants academic degrees.
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Volunteer Legion Netherlands
The Volunteer Legion Netherlands (Vrijwilligerslegioen Nederland) was a collaborationist military formation recruited in the German-occupied Netherlands during World War II.
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Voorbereidend middelbaar beroepsonderwijs
Pre-vocational secondary education (abbr. VMBO) is a school track in the Netherlands.
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Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs
Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs (VWO, meaning "preparatory scientific education" in Dutch) is the highest variant in the secondary educational system of the Netherlands, attended by approximately a fifth of all Dutch high school students.
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Voorburg
Voorburg is a town and former municipality in the west part of the province of South Holland, Netherlands.
Vorstengraf (Oss)
The Vorstengraf (grave of the king) in Oss is one of the largest burial mounds in the Netherlands and Belgium.
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Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin, also known as Popular or Colloquial Latin, is the range of non-formal registers of Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onward.
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Waal (river)
The Waal (Dutch name) is the main distributary branch of the river Rhine flowing approximately through the Netherlands.
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Wadden Sea
The Wadden Sea (Waddenzee; Wattenmeer; Wattensee or Waddenzee; Vadehavet; longname; di Heef) is an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea.
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War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021.
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War of the Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714.
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Water board (Netherlands)
In the Netherlands, a water board, water council or water authority (waterschap or heemraadschap) is a regional governing body solely charged with the management of surface water in the environment.
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Water Mill at Kollen Near Nuenen
Water Mill at Kollen Near Nuenen (Dutch: Collse watermolen, F48a, JH488) is an oil painting of the Watermill at Kollen, created on 28-29 May 1884 by Vincent van Gogh during the period when he was living at Nuenen nearby.
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Weichselian glaciation
The Weichselian glaciation is the regional name for the Last Glacial Period in the northern parts of Europe.
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Welsh people
The Welsh (Cymry) are an ethnic group native to Wales.
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Weser
The Weser is a river of Lower Saxony in north-west Germany.
Weser–Rhine Germanic
Weser–Rhine Germanic is a proposed group of prehistoric West Germanic dialects, which includes both Central German dialects and Low Franconian, the ancestor of Dutch.
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West Flanders
West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen; West Vloandern; (Province de) Flandre-Occidentale; Westflandern) is the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, in Belgium.
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West Francia
In medieval historiography, West Francia (Medieval Latin: Francia occidentalis) or the Kingdom of the West Franks constitutes the initial stage of the Kingdom of France and extends from the year 843, from the Treaty of Verdun, to 987, the beginning of the Capetian dynasty.
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West Frisian language
West Frisian, or simply Frisian (Frysk or Westerlauwersk Frysk; Fries, also Westerlauwers Fries), is a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland (Fryslân) in the north of the Netherlands, mostly by those of Frisian ancestry.
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West Germanic languages
The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the extinct East Germanic languages).
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Wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948.
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Wilhelmus
"Wilhelmus van Nassouwe", usually known just as "Wilhelmus" (italic;; English translation: "The Wilhelmus"), is the national anthem of both the Netherlands and its sovereign state, the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Willem Frederik Hermans
Willem Frederik Hermans (1 September 192127 April 1995) was a Dutch author of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, as well as book-length studies, essays, and literary criticism.
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Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
Willem-Alexander (Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand; born 27 April 1967) is King of the Netherlands.
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William I of the Netherlands
William I (Willem Frederik; 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843) was king of the Netherlands and grand duke of Luxembourg from 1815 until his abdication in 1840.
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William III of England
William III (William Henry;; 4 November 16508 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.
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William III of the Netherlands
William III (Dutch: Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk; English: William Alexander Paul Frederick Louis; 19 February 1817 – 23 November 1890) was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1849 until his death in 1890.
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William the Silent
William the Silent or William the Taciturn (Willem de Zwijger; 24 April 153310 July 1584), more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange (Willem van Oranje), was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648.
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William V, Prince of Orange
William V (Willem Batavus; 8 March 1748 – 9 April 1806) was Prince of Orange and the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic.
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Willibrord
Willibrord (658 – 7 November AD 739) was an Anglo-Saxon monk, bishop, and missionary.
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Windmill
A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but in some parts of the English-speaking world, the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications.
Windward Islands
The Windward Islands are the southern, generally larger islands of the Lesser Antilles.
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Winter Olympic Games
The Winter Olympic Games (Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice.
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Within Temptation
Within Temptation is a Dutch symphonic metal band founded in April 1996 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerholt.
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Women's FIH Hockey World Cup
The Women's FIH Hockey World Cup is the field hockey World Cup competition for women, whose format for qualification and the final tournament is similar to the men's.
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Women's rights
Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide.
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Women's suffrage
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections.
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World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization, think tank, and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland that regulates and facilitates international trade.
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World Wide Fund for Nature
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.
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Yiddish
Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish,,; ייִדיש-טײַטש, historically also Yidish-Taytsh) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.
Zaan
The Zaan is a small river in the province of North Holland in the northwestern Netherlands and the name of a district through which it runs.
Zeeland
Zeeland (Zeêland; historical English exonym Zealand) is the westernmost and least populous province of the Netherlands.
Zuiderzee
The Zuiderzee or Zuider Zee (old spelling Zuyderzee or Zuyder Zee), historically called Lake Almere and Lake Flevo, was a shallow bay of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands.
Zuiderzee Works
The Zuiderzee Works (Zuiderzeewerken) is a system of dams and dikes, land reclamation and water drainage work, which was the largest hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands during the twentieth century.
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Zwolle
Zwolle is a city and municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands.
.bq
.bq is designated—but not in use—as the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (the Caribbean Netherlands) following the assignment on December 15, 2010, by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency of BQ as the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 to the area.
.eu
.eu is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the European Union (EU).
.nl
.nl is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Netherlands.
1968 Tour de France
The 1968 Tour de France was the 55th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours.
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1979 Vuelta a España
The 34th Edition Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 24 April to 13 May 1979.
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1980 Tour de France
The 1980 Tour de France was the 67th edition of the Tour de France.
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1995 Women's European Volleyball Championship
The 1995 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 19th edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball.
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2 Unlimited
2 Unlimited are a Belgian-Dutch dance music act, founded by Belgian producers/songwriters Jean-Paul De Coster and Phil Wilde in 1991 in Antwerp, Belgium. From 1991 to 1996, Dutch rapper Ray Slijngaard and Dutch vocalist Anita Doth fronted the act. During these five years, 2 Unlimited enjoyed worldwide mainstream success.
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2007 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix
The FIVB World Grand Prix 2007 was the fifteenth edition of the annual women's volleyball tournament, which is the female equivalent of the Men's Volleyball World League.
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2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup was the eighth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international Women's football championship contested by 24 women's national teams representing member associations of FIFA.
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3rd meridian east
The meridian 3° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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50th parallel north
The 50th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 50 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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54th parallel north
The 54th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 54 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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8th meridian east
The meridian 8° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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See also
Benelux
- BeNe League
- BeNe League (ice hockey)
- BeNeSam
- Belgium
- Belgium–Luxembourg Economic Union
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