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A Dutch saying indicating their sense of national pride in their reclamation of land from the sea and marshes is "God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands." [277] Dutch people in orange celebrating King's Day in Amsterdam, 2017. Dutch manners are open and direct with a no-nonsense attitude—informality combined with ...
The Dutch government said on Thursday it is in discussions with U.S. chip firms Nvidia and AMD about suppling hardware and technological knowledge for a possible artificial intelligence (AI) facility.
From the end of the 16th century, the city grew rapidly to become the largest and most powerful city in the Netherlands and the main centre of trade, commerce, finance and culture. The origins of the split between Amsterdam as capital city and The Hague as seat of government lay in the peculiar Dutch constitutional history.
The Netherlands on Thursday kicks off four days of voting in European Union parliamentary elections across the 27 member states that are expected to deliver gains for the hard right. The ...
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 ...
Voting for parliamentary elections in the Netherlands began on Wednesday as pollsters said the race for the next Dutch leader will be a close call.. The elections will determine a new direction ...
In Belgium, Dutch is sometimes the most popular Wikipedia, but French is usually the most popular; [clarification needed] in Suriname however, the only Dutch-speaking country outside Europe, Dutch Wikipedia is second after English. In Curaçao and Aruba, as well in Caribbean Netherlands, it has a presence, but has fewer pageviews than English ...
The United Provinces of the Netherlands, commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795. It was a predecessor state of the present-day Netherlands and the first independent Dutch nation state.