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The Dutch fowk (Dutch: Nederlanders (help · info)) are an ethnic group native tae the Netherlands. Thay share a common cultur an speak the Dutch leid. Dutch fowk an thair stryndants are foond in migrant commonties warldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canadae, Australie, Sooth Africae, New Zealand, an the Unitit States.
The monarchy of the Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy whose role and position are governed by the Constitution of the Netherlands.Roughly a third of the Constitution explains the succession, mechanisms of accession and abdication to the throne, the roles and duties of the monarch, the formalities of communication between the States General of the Netherlands, and the monarch's role in ...
- The Frisian Origins
- House of Holland
- House of Wittelsbach
- House of Habsburg
- Aftermath
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While the Frisian kingdom had comprised most of the present day Netherlands, the later province of Friesland in the Netherlands was much reduced. Already in the early Middle Ages West-Frisia (Frisia west of the Vlie) was not considered to be a part of Frisia anymore, and came to be known as Holland (present day provinces North and South Holland and...
The first count of Holland, Dirk I, was the son or foster-son of Gerolf, Count in Frisia (Dijkstra suggests that Dirk may have been the son of a sister of Gerolf and that his own father died while he was still an infant). He received land around Egmond from Charles the Fat at a place called Bladella (modern-day Bladel near Eindhoven, The Netherland...
There was a war of succession between uncle (John III, Duke of Bavaria) and niece (Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut). This war was finally won by Philip the Good in 1433, who, in the meantime had inherited John's claims on the county. Philip and Jacqueline were double first cousins, Philip's mother is daughter of Albert while Jacqueline's mother was...
Philip II the Handsome(r. 1494–1506), King Philip I of CastileThe county remained in existence as a constituent member state of the Dutch Republic until 1795. There were no more counts however since the Estates of Holland and West-Frisia were the sovereign of the county (although the countship was offered to William the Silent in 1584, shortly before his death). The stadtholders, who were servants of the Esta...
A book of 32 plates of the counts of Holland published in Amsterdam in 1663, engraved by Adriaen Matham
The first Dutch people to come to Canada were Dutch Americans among the United Empire Loyalists. The largest wave was in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when large numbers of Dutch helped settle the Canadian west. During this period significant numbers also settled in major cities like Toronto .
The Dutch colonial empire ( Dutch: 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 ...
Sir Andre Konstantin Geim, FRS, HonFRSC, HonFInstP (born 21 October 1958) is a Soviet-born Dutch-Breetish pheesicist wirkin in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the Varsity o Manchester. Geim wis awairdit the 2010 Nobel Prize in Pheesics jyntly wi Konstantin Novoselov for his wirk on graphene.
Kintra. Netherlands. Date apprehendit. December 1883. Maria Catherina Swanenburg ( Leiden 9 September 1839 - Gorinchem 11 Apryle 1915) wis a Dutch serial killer, who murthert at least 27, an wis suspectit o killin mair nor 90 fowk.
