Category: Netherlands

The Hague (Den Haag) is the seat of government, parliament and the royal court, the third largest and one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands. But above all, it is known for the fact that the Palace of Peace is located here, in which the International Court of Justice sits. Note: according to allcitypopulation,…

The lively and bustling Delft is located in the province of South Holland. The Technical University (TU Delft) makes Delft a real university city. This ensures quite a lot of young people in the city center and a lively catering industry where there is always something going on. With the Botanical Garden and the Science…

According to ETHNICITYOLOGY, Doesburg is a Hanseatic city located on the Gelderse IJssel and the Oude IJssel. For a long time, Doesburg has been in the shadow of other Hanseatic cities in the immediate vicinity, such as Deventer and Zutphen.. In recent years there has been a realization that Doesburg is really worth a visit…

As the youngest province of the Netherlands, Flevoland has a lot to offer. The landscape on the former Zuiderzee is very open and has often had to fight against the rising water. This suffering soon came to an end with the construction of the Afsluitdijk in 1932. Since then, the name Zuiderzee was also changed…

The territory of the Netherlands was inhabited already in the Neolithic era. In the 2nd floor. 1 thousand BC Celtic tribes lived here, to the beginning. AD driven out by the Germans. In the 1st century AD part of the Netherlands was conquered by the Romans, in the 3rd-4th centuries. – Franks, Saxons and Frisians….

Losgo, those of Felipe II of Spain to reinforce the religious persecution of the Protestants and his efforts to centralize the government, justice and taxes made him unpopular and led to a revolt. The Dutch fought for their independence from Spain, which led to the Eighty Years War (1568 – 1648). Seven rebellious provinces were united in the Union of Utrecht in 1579 and formed…

Netherlands. (in Dutch: Nederland). It is a European country that together with the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. As its name indicates, the country’s territory is made up of lowlands of which approximately one third is located at or below sea level. [1] . It is often known by metonymy after its most influential or relevant historical…

Relief The relief of the Netherlands is falsely uniform. It is a large floodplain in which alluvial debris has been deposited from some of the most important rivers in Europe, and the demudation of the glacial moraines that covered the north of the continent during the last ice age. But these deposits are not uniform,…

The Kingdom of the Netherlands is one of the countries of the European Union. It is bordered to the north and west by the North Sea, to the east by Germany and to the south by Belgium. Its surface area is 41,526 km², and it has 1,027 km of borders. In addition to this European…

As a country located in Europe according to CONSTRUCTMATERIALS, the Netherlands is one of the richest countries in the world, even in absolute numbers, and despite its small size. It became the eighth world economic power. It has a very high human development index, over 0.953. It is one of the European countries in which…