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Kralendijk (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkraːlə(n)dɛik]) is the capital and main port of the island of Bonaire in the Caribbean Netherlands. The language spoken in the town is Papiamentu, but Dutch and English are widely used. As of 2017, the town had a population of 10,620. [1] In Papiamentu, the town is often called Playa or "beach".
The Dutch word for city is stad (plural: steden). The intermediate category of town does not exist in Dutch, but provinciestad (small city in the province) comes close. Historically, there existed systems of city rights, granted by the territorial lords, which defined the status of a place: a stad or dorp. Cities were self-governing and had ...
In 1639, the Dutch West India Company constructed Fort Oranje (or Oranje Battery), [5] [6] which served as a military fortress until 1837. Around 1868, a wooden lighthouse tower was built inside the walls of the fort. [4] In 1932, a stone lighthouse was constructed in place of the wooden lighthouse.
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). During the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1839), there were two government centers: The Hague and Brussels. The government sat in one of these cities every other ...
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