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The Netherlands is the 67th most populated country in the world. As of January 2023, the Netherlands has a population of 17,821,419. [1] Between 1900 and 1950 the population almost doubled from 5.14 to 10.11 million people.
History of the Dutch language. Dutch is a West Germanic language, that originated from the Old Frankish dialects. Among the words with which Dutch has enriched the English vocabulary are: brandy, coleslaw, cookie, cruiser, dock, easel, freight, landscape, spook, stoop, and yacht. Dutch is noteworthy as the language of an outstanding literature ...
Indo is an abbreviation of the term Indo-European which originated in the Dutch East Indies of the 19th century as an informal term to describe the Eurasians. Indische is an abbreviation of the Dutch term Indische Nederlander. Indische was a term that could be applied to everything connected with the Dutch East Indies. [13]
The Dutch East Indies, [3] also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( Dutch: Nederlands (ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda ), was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.
The Anglo–Dutch Wars ( Dutch: 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. The first three wars occurred in the second half of the 17th century over trade and overseas colonies, while the fourth was fought a century ...
The Dutch Wikipedia ( Dutch: Nederlandstalige Wikipedia) is the Dutch-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. It was founded on 19 June 2001. As of May 2024, the Dutch Wikipedia is the sixth-largest Wikipedia edition, with 2,158,668 articles. It was the fourth Wikipedia edition to exceed one million articles, after the ...
N. Naturalised citizens of the Netherlands (22 P) Dutch Nobel Prize winners (14 P) Dutch nobility (3 C, 5 P)
