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From 1596 to 1829, the Dutch traders sold 250,000 slaves in the Dutch Guianas, 142,000 in the Dutch Caribbean islands, and 28,000 in Dutch Brazil. [76] In addition, tens of thousands of slaves, mostly from India and some from Africa, were carried to the Dutch East Indies [ 77 ] and slaves from the East Indies to Africa and the West Indies.
On 21 November 2016, there were 3.8 million residents in the Netherlands with at least one foreign-born parent. [209] Over half the young people in Amsterdam and Rotterdam have a non-western background. [210] Dutch people, or descendants of Dutch people, are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in South Africa and the United States.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, pronounced [ˈkoːnɪŋkrɛiɡ dɛr ˈneːdərlɑndə(n)] ⓘ; [h], West Frisian: Keninkryk fan Nederlân, Papiamento: Reino Hulandes), commonly known simply as the Netherlands, [i] is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united under the monarch of the Netherlands, who functions as head of state.
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Museum (precursor of Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) were founded during his reign. [ 11 ] Aside from the politics of centralisation Louis Bonaparte showed himself as a king who was a concerned father of his country.
Netherlands: 24 August 1815: Adoption of the constitution of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. 26 July 1581: Plakkaat van Verlatinghe signed, independence from Spain: 16 March 1839: European Netherlands: The United Kingdom of the Netherlands divided under the Treaty of London (1839). 15 December 1954: Charter for the Kingdom of the ...
A map based on Adriaen Block's 1614 expedition to New Netherland, featuring the first use of the name. It was created by Dutch cartographers in the Golden Age of Dutch exploration (c. 1590s –1720s) and Netherlandish cartography (c. 1570s –1670s).
Major conflicts were fought in the Eighty Years' War against Spain (from the foundation of the Dutch Republic until 1648), the Dutch–Portuguese War (1598–1663), four Anglo-Dutch Wars (the first against the Commonwealth of England, two against the Kingdom of England, and a fourth against the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1665–1667, 1672–1674 ...
The Dutch Republic existed from 1579 to 1795 and was a confederation of seven provinces, which had their own governments and were very independent, and a number of so-called Generality Lands. These latter were governed directly by the States-General (Staten-Generaal in Dutch), the federal government. The States-General were seated in The Hague ...