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The countries that comprise the region called the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg) all have comparatively the same toponymy.Place names with Neder, Nieder, Nedre, Nether, Lage(r) or Low(er) (in Germanic languages) and Bas or Inferior (in Romance languages) are in use in low-lying places all over Europe.
Brussels was briefly the capital of the Netherlands and the low countries in the 16th and 19th centuries. Brussels was the capital of the Seventeen Provinces (1549–1581).
Indonesia and the Netherlands share a special relationship, [1] embedded in their shared history of colonial interactions for centuries. It began during the spice trade as the Netherlands established the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) trading post in what is now Indonesia, before colonising it as the Dutch East Indies until the mid-20th century.
In December 1949, Indonesia became independent and the union with the Netherlands came into force. However, Indonesia was very poorly prepared for independence. The Dutch school system had only educated a very small, European-educated elite; of a population of well over 70 million at the time, just 591 had a university degree.
As of January 2025, the Dutch Wikipedia is the sixth-largest Wikipedia edition, with 2,176,039 articles. It was the fourth Wikipedia edition to exceed one million articles, after the English, German, and French editions. Many articles however have been created by bots and are only a few lines of length, the article depth is very low.
Before the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), the Low Countries was a patchwork of different polities created by the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648). The Dutch Republic in the north was independent; the Southern Netherlands was split between the Austrian Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège [2] - the former being part of Habsburg monarchy, while both were part of the Holy Roman ...
Topographic map of Gouda. Gouda (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣʌudaː] ⓘ) is a city and municipality in the west of the Netherlands, between Rotterdam and Utrecht, in the province of South Holland.
Overheid.nl - official Dutch government portal; Government.nl - official Dutch government web site "Provinces of Netherlands". Statoids. CIA - The World Factbook -- Netherlands; CBS - Key figures from the Dutch bureau of statistics; Netherlands travel guide from Wikivoyage; Local news and features on the Netherlands,Expatica