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[1] [2] In April 2016, 1154 active editors made at least five edits in that month. English is the most popular Wikipedia in the Netherlands, followed by Dutch. [ 3 ] In Belgium, Dutch is sometimes the most popular Wikipedia, but French is usually the most popular; [ clarification needed ] in Suriname however, the only Dutch-speaking country ...
The Netherlands-Indonesia Union (Dutch: Nederlands-Indonesische Unie, NIU; Indonesian: Uni Indonesia–Belanda, UIB), also called the two-state solution (Dutch: tweestaten-oplossing) by the Dutch, [2] was a confederal relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia that existed between 1949 and 1956.
The fertility rate in the Netherlands is 1.78 children per woman (2018 estimate), [6] which is high compared with many other European countries, but below the rate of 2.1 children per woman required for natural population replacement. [201] The Netherlands has one of the oldest populations in the world, with the average age of 42.7 years. [6]
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.
The city of Amsterdam is a municipality under the Dutch Municipalities Act. It is governed by a municipal council (gemeenteraad, also known as 'city council', the principal legislative authority), a municipal executive board (college van burgemeester en wethouders), and a mayor (burgemeester).
Indonesian Dutch (Dutch: Indonesisch-Nederlands) is a regional variety of Dutch spoken in Indonesia.Over time, Dutch became the language used by colonizers for centuries in the Indonesian Archipelago, both when it was still colonized or partially colonized by the Netherlands.
Roekiah (Perfected Spelling: Rukiah; 31 December 1917 – 2 September 1945), often credited as Miss Roekiah, was an Indonesian kroncong singer and actress. The daughter of two stage performers, she began her career at the age of seven; by 1932 she had become well known in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia), as a singer and stage actress.
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 ...