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Also known as: Holland, Kingdom of The Netherlands, Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, Nederland
Written by
Henk Meijer
Director, Information and Documentation Centre for the Geography of the Netherlands, State University of Utrecht. Author of A Compact Geography of the Netherlands.
Henk Meijer,
Michael J. Wintle
Professor of European Studies, University of Amsterdam. Author of An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands after 1800: Demographic, Economic, and Social Transition; Ideas of Europe since 1914;...
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Archaeologists in the Netherlands Just Uncovered a Centuries-Old Floor Made of Cow Bones • Dec. 23, 2024, 9:42 AM ET (Smithsonian Magazine)
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Netherlands, country located in northwestern Europe, also known as Holland. “Netherlands” means low-lying country; the name Holland (from Houtland, or “Wooded Land”) was originally given to one of the medieval cores of what later became the modern state and is still used for 2 of its 12 provinces (Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland). A parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarch, the kingdom includes its former colonies in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten. The capital is Amsterdam and the seat of government The Hague. The country is indeed low-lying and remarkably flat, with large expanses of ...(100 of 24002 words)

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