Category: Netherlands

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…

Arts In the 9th century, the Benedictine and Cistercian monks consolidated Christianity in NW Europe, covering it with Romanesque-style monasteries. In the Netherlands the construction of two towers on the façade and the scant decoration, often limited to the capitals, were characteristic. Throughout medieval times, brick was used almost exclusively, due to the lack of…

Rembrandt is the largest representative of the fine arts in the Netherlands. During the Gothic and Renaissance periods the Netherlands began to experience remarkable artistic development, especially in painting. On the intellectual level, Erasmus of Rotterdam, born in the Netherlands, had a great influence on the cultural life of his country and Europe during the 16th…

Prehistory The Netherlands has been inhabited since the last Ice Age ; the oldest remains found are 100,000 years old, when the country had a tundra climate with very little vegetation. Its first settlers were hunter-gatherers. [2] At the end of the Ice Age, the area was inhabited by various Paleolithic groups. One of them even made canoes (Pesse, about…

Ancient and Middle Ages The history of the Netherlands does not go back very far, at least there are hardly any finds that indicate it. But from the barrows it can be concluded that the country was already inhabited during the Ice Age. In ancient times and at the beginning of the Christian era, the…