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The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands consists of twelve provinces; it borders Germany to the east and Belgium to the south, with a North Sea coastline to the north and west. It shares maritime borders with the United Kingdom, Germany, and Belgium. The official language is Dutch, with West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland. Dutch, English, and Papiamento are official in the Caribbean territories.

The Netherlands has been a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a unitary structure since 1848. The country has a tradition of pillarisation (separation of citizens into groups by religion and political beliefs) and a long record of social tolerance, having legalised prostitution and euthanasia, along with maintaining a liberal drug policy. The Netherlands allowed women's suffrage in 1919 and was the first country to legalise same-sex marriage in 2001. Its mixed-market advanced economy has the eleventh-highest per capita income globally. The Hague holds the seat of the States General, Cabinet, and Supreme Court. The Port of Rotterdam is the busiest in Europe. Schiphol is the busiest airport in the Netherlands, and the fourth busiest in Europe. Being a developed country, the Netherlands is a founding member of the European Union, Eurozone, G10, NATO, OECD, and WTO, as well as a part of the Schengen Area and the trilateral Benelux Union. It hosts intergovernmental organisations and international courts, many of which are in The Hague. (Full article...)

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Sorga Ka Toedjoe ([ˈsɔrɡa kə ˈtudʒu]; vernacular Malay for Seventh Heaven; also advertised under the Dutch title In Den Zevenden Hemel) is a 1940 film from the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) directed by Joshua and Othniel Wong for Tan's Film. It follows an older couple (Kartolo and Annie Landouw) who are reunited by another, younger couple (Roekiah and Djoemala) after years of separation. The black-and-white film, the first production by Tan's Film after the departure of Rd Mochtar, featured kroncong music and was targeted at lower-class native audiences. It was a commercial and critical success. Roekiah and Djoemala took leading roles in three more films before Tan's closed in 1942. Sorga Ka Toedjoe is now thought lost. (Full article...)

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Image 1Expansion of the Franks from 481 to 870 (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 2Painting of an account of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck, by Charles Bell (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 3Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, 1401–1436, known to the Dutch as "Jacoba of Bavaria" (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 4Dorestad and main trade routes (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 5Map showing roughly the distribution of Franks and Frisians c. 716 (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 6Tribes during the Roman Empire (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 7Chapel of St Nicholas (Sint-Nicolaaskapel (Nijmegen) [nl] or Valkhofkapel) in Nijmegen, one of the oldest buildings in the Netherlands (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 8Location of the Elp and Hilversum cultures in the Bronze Age (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 9The Low Countries in the late 14th century CE (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 10Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherland (New York). His provincial capital, New Amsterdam, was located at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan. (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 11Administrative divisions of the First French Empire in 1812, illustrating the incorporation of the Netherlands and its internal reorganisation (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 12Saint Willibrord, Anglo-Saxon missionary from Northumberland, Apostle to the Frisians, first bishop of Utrecht (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 13De Tafelbaai by Aernout Smit, 1683 (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 14Population growth 1900–2000 (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 15Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 16Religion in the Netherlands in 1849.
Roman Catholicism
Protestantism (Calvinist)
(from History of the Netherlands)
Image 17Prince Maurits at the Battle of Nieuwpoort, 1600 CE, by Paulus van Hillegaert (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 18Eustachius De Lannoy of the Dutch East India Company surrenders to Maharaja Marthanda Varma of the Indian Kingdom of Travancore after the Battle of Colachel. (Depiction at Padmanabhapuram Palace) (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 19Map of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and Luxembourg, 1815 (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 20Dutch East India Company factory in Hugli-Chuchura, Mughal Bengal. Hendrik van Schuylenburgh, 1665 (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 21Street in Amsterdam in 1891 (Vijzelstraat [nl] looking towards Muntplein) (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 22Distribution of the primary Germanic groups c. 1 AD (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 23Liberty tree erected in Dam Square in Amsterdam, 1795 by H. Numan (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 24Peasant woman, seated, with a white hood, painted in Nuenen in December 1884 by Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). Born in Groot-Zundert, van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 25Fighting between Belgian rebels and the Dutch military expedition in Brussels in September 1830 (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 26Shepherdess With a Flock of Sheep by Anton Mauve (1838–1888), of the Hague School (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 27Influential Utrecht theologian Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens, 1459–1523, was an advisor to Charles; in the last year of his life he became pope as Adrian VI (1522–1523). (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 28Rorik of Dorestad, Viking conqueror and ruler of Friesland; a romantic 1912 depiction by Johannes H. Koekkoek (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 29Skating fun, a traditional rural scene by 17th-century Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 30'Holmes's Bonfire', the burning of Dutch Merchant Ships by the English Royal Navy (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 31Map of the Seventeen Provinces (Low Germania) (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 32An account of the first trekboers (from History of the Netherlands)
Image 33Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on 18 July 2019 (from History of the Netherlands)

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The Keizersgracht and the Reguliersgracht are canals in Amsterdam. In 2010, the 17th-century canals of Amsterdam were placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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William III was the Prince of Orange from his birth, Stadtholder of the main provinces of the Dutch Republic from 28 June 1672, King of England and King of Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scots (under the name William II) from 11 April 1689, until his death.

Born a member of the House of Orange-Nassau, William III won the English, Scottish and Irish Crowns following the Glorious Revolution, during which his uncle and father-in-law, the Catholic James II (VII in Scotland)), was deposed. In England, Scotland and Ireland, William ruled jointly with his wife, Mary II, until her death on 28 December 1694. He reigned as 'William II' in Scotland, but 'William III' in England and Ireland. Often he is referred to as William of Orange, a name he shared with many other historical figures. In Northern Ireland and Scotland, he is often informally known as "King Billy".

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... that the 1961 Indonesian census was the country's first since 1930 and the first since gaining independence from the Netherlands?
... that the wedding of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands and Claus van Amsberg was marred by protests over Amsberg's German heritage and past membership in the Hitler Youth and the Wehrmacht?
... that the party leader of the new Dutch youth political party LEF – For the New Generation tattooed his party's program points on his forearm?
... that Kurnianingrat helped historian George McTurnan Kahin smuggle speeches by leaders of the Indonesian revolution from the Dutch?
... that former Dutch rugby union player Sylke Haverkorn served as head coach of the Turkey women's national team before securing the same position at her country's women's national team?
... that the Jewish cemetery in the Dutch city of Hoorn was cleared in 1968 to make room for a roadway, and the bodily remains and gravestones were moved to the public cemetery?