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See all on Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_NetherlandsThe history of the Netherlands is a history of seafaring people thriving in the lowland river delta on the North Sea in northwestern Europe. Records begin with the four centuries during which the region formed a militarized border zone of the Roman Empire. This came under increasing pressure from … See more
Historical changes to the landscape
The prehistory of the area that is now the Netherlands was largely shaped by its constantly shifting, low-lying geography.
Earliest groups of hunter-gatherers (before 5000 BC) See more
Native tribes
During the Gallic Wars, the Belgic area south of the Oude Rijn and west of the Rhine was … See morePart of the Holy Roman Empire
The German kings and emperors ruled the Netherlands in the 10th and 11th century, with the assistance of the Dukes of Lotharingia, and the … See moreThe Dutch War for Independence from Spain is frequently called the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648). The first fifty years (1568 through 1618) were a war uniquely between Spain and … See more
Burgundian period
Most of what is now the Netherlands and Belgium was eventually united by the Duke of Burgundy, Phillip the Good. Before the Burgundian union, the Dutch identified themselves by the town they lived in, their local duchy or … See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands
The prehistory of the area that is now the Netherlands was largely shaped by the sea and the rivers that constantly shifted the low-lying geography. The oldest human (Neanderthal) traces, believed to be about 250,000 years old, were found in higher soils near Maastricht. At the end of the Ice Age, the nomadic late Upper Palaeolithic Hamburg culture (13,000–10,000 BC) hunted reindeer in t…
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Netherlands_(1900–present)See more on en.wikipedia.orgAt the beginning of the 20th century, socialism began to develop in the industrial centers. Although the first socialist party, the Social Democratic League, was founded in the 19th century, the electoral system, combined with a policy of containment and repression, prevented the development of the social…
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_NetherlandsSee more on en.wikipedia.orgGermanic tribes are thought to have originated during the Nordic Bronze Age in northern Germany and southern Scandinavia. The tribes spread south, possibly motivated by the deteriorating climate of that area. They crossed the River Elbe, most likely overrunning territories formerly occupied by Celtic p…
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_NetherlandsSee more on en.wikipedia.orgThe Kingdom of the Netherlands originated in the aftermath of French Emperor Napoleon I's defeat in 1815. In that year the Netherlands regained its independence from France under its First French Empire, which had annexed its northern neighbour in 1810, as the Sovereign Principality of the United N…
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The economic history of the Netherlands is the history of an economy that scholar Jan de Vries calls the first "modern" economy. It covers the Netherlands as the Habsburg Netherlands, through the era of the Dutch Republic, the …
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The Netherlands (both the European part and the Caribbean Netherlands), together with Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, also in the Caribbean, form a sovereign state called the Kingdom of the Netherlands. When the Kingdom …
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The United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1839) is the unofficial name used for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This was after it was first made from part of the First French Empire and …
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Population of the Netherlands Antilles in thousands, 1961–2003. The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated. The capital and largest …
WHKMLA : History of the Netherlands, 1815-1830
https://www.zum.de/whkmla/...The United Netherlands had a combined population of 5.5 million, c. 60 % of whom lived in the southern part, c. 40 % in the northern part of the country. In the Staten-Generaal ( Estates …
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