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| | Encyclopedia: History of the Netherlands |
 | | Persecution of Jews, of which about 140,000 lived in the Netherlands at the beginning of the war, started shortly after the invasion. | | | The Orangist reaction was severe: no one dared appear in public without an orange cockade and there were lynchings, the old burgomasters were replaced and a small unpaid Prussian army was billeted in the Netherlands supporting themselves with looting and extortion, Many Patriots fled the country to Brabant or France, perhaps 40,000 in all. | | | The Nazi Party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/History-of-the-Netherlands
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| | In addition, two suspects were arrested in the Dominican Republic, who are believed to have purchased the MDMA-tablets from the suspects in the Netherlands and to have been involved in smuggling them from the Netherlands into the United States. | | | This expansion of the tactical investigation capacity is one of the results of the implementation of the integrated policy 'Working together against XTC’, in which the Dutch government outlined its plans for intensifying the fight against synthetic drugs. | | | From the questions that were asked, it is apparent that this substance is largely unknown to law enforcement agencies in the Netherlands. |
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| | Netherlands. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 |
| | The country suffered, however, from a ban on the sale of petroleum imposed by Arab nations in the wake of the Arab-Israeli War of Oct., 1973, in retaliation for the Netherlands’; traditional friendship with Israel. | | | German occupation authorities, headed by Arthur Seyss-Inquart, established a reign of terror; underground resistance led to mass executions and deportations. | | | The Netherlands became a charter member of the United Nations (1945) and in 1947 joined in a close alliance with Belgium and Luxembourg, which became (1958) the Benelux Economic Union. |
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| | University of Gent - English Department |
| | This network was the operating base for the religious and political activities of those who, with the assistance of the Spanish, wished to see the claims of the Catholic community in England restored or who aimed at political rehabilitation in their native country. | | | Little information is available about the size and the intellectual impact of the English colleges and their relationship with scholarly circles on the continent. | | | This part of the project aims at shedding light on such issues. |
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http://www.english.ugent.be/presence.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Thirty Years War |
| | The plan was that Christian should come to his support with a new army. | | | Maximilian, however, had not the courage to enter into open conflict with a foreign foe. | | | A Spanish attack by sea on the Netherlands ended in September, 1632, in a complete defeat. |
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| | Blast damages Muslim school in southern Netherlands |
| | Among those arrested was a 26-year-old accused of killing the filmmaker, the suspect was identified only as Mohammed Bouyeri. | | | Although mainstream Muslim groups condemned the killing, it has caused an outpouring of anger in the Netherlands. | | | THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A suspected bomb blew the front door off a Muslim elementary school in a southern Dutch town and shattered windows across the street, days after a suspected Muslim radical killed a Dutch filmmaker, police said Monday. |
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| | This expansion of tactical investigation capacity is one of the results of the integrated policy, ‘Samenspannen tegen XTC’ (‘Working together against XTC’), in which government plans for intensifying the fight against synthetic drugs are outlined. | | | This involves: Investigating the (large-scale) export of synthetic drugs by the dominant groups in this area on the basis of intelligence related to criminal networks: The execution of international requests for assistance that fall within the scope of the KTZ/USD; Drawing up a list of priority countries for which these activities are carried out. | | | The results of the brainstorming session were subsequently worked out in detail and formulated in this document. |
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http://www.politie.nl/Overige/Images/33_18198.doc
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| | WHKMLA : History of the Spanish Netherlands, 1584-1713 |
| | In the BATTLE OF ROCROI (1643) the French defeated the Spanish, whose infantry hitherto had been believed invincible. | | | By 1659, Spain militarily had collapsed, unable to defend itself against the French. | | | The war had been disastrous for the country; Brussels was largely destroyed in 1695. |
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http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/lowcountries/spanneth.html
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| | A Brief Outline of Dutch History and the New Netherland Colony |
| | This conflict ended with the Treaty of Breda in August of 1667 in which the Dutch gave up their claim to New Amsterdam in exchange for Surinam (just north of Brazil). | | | As New Netherland prospered the British set their sights on the province, stating they had a claim to the land as part of John Cabot's discoveries. | | | They feared the Inquisition would be brought to the Netherlands, and that personal and economic as well as religious freedom would be lost, so they revolted. |
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| | CNN.com - Dutch raid 'Kurd training ground' - Nov 13, 2004 |
| | Police said Friday's operation was unconnected the the November 2 killing of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a suspected Islamic radical. | | | (CNN) -- Dutch police say they have raided a suspected paramilitary training ground for Kurdish militants in the southern Netherlands, arresting 29 people. | | | Firefighters extinguish fire at Bedir Islamic elementary school, Uden, Netherlands. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/11/13/netherlands.raid/index.html
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| | Leading motives of the immigrants who came to the Netherlands were economic, political, religious or a combination of these three motives | | | These Protestants not only emigrated to the Netherlands, but they also went to German states (Pfalz, Alsace, Brandenburg) which had Protestant rulers, or to Wales, England and Scotland. | | | But there are groups and individuals who emigrated from the Netherlands, and it had started by the middle ages]. |
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| | Southern Netherlands, Celts or Teutons? (#1) |
| | It appeared that one could answer that question from a linguistic and archeologic point of view. | | | Roymans already launched the discussion in 1992 by stating: "One may ask if that difference (Celtic or Teutonic) was relevant for the people then. | | | The last word has definitely not been said yet about this subject and I hope during a coming lecture there will be more time to sought things out. |
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| | Dutch and Belgian history. |
| | From the articles presented by this site I can highly recommend the topic "What did Gutenberg invent'. | | | A very beautiful and indepth site about some Historical topics of interest, though not directly related to the Netherlands, is the "Renaissance Secrets" site of the BBC. | | | The website is closed but I have put the document in my vault. |
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| | ABC News: Bush to lobby for democracy as he marks end of WW2 |
| | He told Baltic leaders on Saturday in the Latvian capital Riga that the Nazi Third Reich "defined evil for the ages." | | | Bush to lobby for democracy as he marks end of WW2 | | | MAASTRICHT, Netherlands (Reuters) - President Bush will pay tribute on Sunday to the Americans who died to free Europe from Nazi Germany before heading to Moscow to urge Russia to uphold democratic values at home and abroad. |
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| | Southern Netherlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Among the artists who emerged from the court of the "Archdukes," as they were known, was Peter Paul Rubens. | | | Throughout the latter part of the eighteenth century, the principal foreign policy goal of the Habsburg rulers was to exchange the Austrian Netherlands for Bavaria, which would round out Habsburg possessions in southern Germany. | | | This page was last modified 21:24, 30 May 2005. |
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| | Southern Netherlands: Information From Answers.com |
| | This was done mostly to counter the French, at the insistence of the British and Dutch. | | | Despite the ruthless campaigns of Alba and his successorsâ”Requesens, John of Austria, and the more diplomatic Alessandro Farnese â”Spain recovered only the southern provinces while the seven United Provinces of the Netherlands gained independence. | | | The Southern Netherlands were a portion of the Low Countries controlled by Spain ( 1579 - 1713), Austria ( 1713 - 1794) and France ( 1794 - 1815) that became separated from the United Provinces during the Eighty Years' War ( 1568 - 1648) after the Oath of Abjuration of 1581. |
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| | EH.Net Encyclopedia: Dutch Economy in the "Golden Age" (16th-17th Centuries) |
| | This permitted the herring ship to remain at sea longer and increased the range of the herring fishery. | | | This left the production of traditional woolens to drive what was left of Leiden's textile industry in the eighteenth century. | | | For centuries, Flanders and to a lesser extent Brabant had been at the forefront of the medieval European economy. |
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| | WHKMLA : History of Belgium, 1815-1830 |
| | The Catholic southern Netherlands also rejected the distinctly protestant (Calvinist) character of the state. | | | Overall the free trade advocates of the north were more influential; the Netherlands regained her position as one of the world's leading trading nations, and Antwerp became one of her major ports. | | | As in other countries, the burghers of the cities of the southern Netherlands strove for a political constitution, for liberal reforms. |
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http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/lowcountries/bel181530.html
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| | Netherlands Antilles -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The main exports of the Netherlands Antilles are petroleum and petroleum products, all of which are produced on Curaçao. | | | The island of Bonaire is known for its flamingos. | | | The largest island of the Leeward Islands and of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean Sea is Curaçao. |
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| | Netherlands American Society of Southern California - NAS |
| | LOOKING FOR EMIGRANTS FROM NIJMEGEN, THE NETHERLANDS and stories from former Nijmegen residents around the world. | | | The Netherlands American Society welcomes membership applications from all persons who have an active interest in the Netherlands. | | | Also read submitted stories (some in English, some in Dutch). |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Netherlands |
| | The Netherlands remained neutral in World War I, but suffered invasion and occupation by Germany in World War II. | | | Netherlands Trade Union Federation (FNV) (consisting of a merger of Socialist and Catholic trade unions); Christian Trade Union Federation (CNV); Trade Union Federation of Middle and High Personnel (MHP); Federation of Catholic and Protestant Employers Associations; Interchurch Peace Council or IKV; large multinational firms; the nondenominational Federation of Netherlands Enterprises | | | A modern, industrialized nation, the Netherlands is also a large exporter of agricultural products. |
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| | Best (population: 27,500) is a town in the southern Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant. |
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| | Rubens and His Age: Treasures from the Hermitage Museum • • Art and Archaeology • Travel to Bilbao , ... |
| | Through the last decades of the 16th century, the city was plagued by civil war, religious turmoil, foreign rule, and economic stagnation. | | | Antwerp slowly began to recover when Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566-1633) and her husband Albert (1559-1621) were appointed archduchess and archduke of the Southern Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century. | | | Founded in 1764, the State Hermitage Museum currently houses more than three million works of art, many of which were collected by Russian Empress Catherine the Great (1729-1796). |
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| | A Virtual Travel to Netherlands - Nederland, Tourism Holland, Pays-Bas |
| | The Netherlands remained neutral in World War I but was invaded in World War II by Germany in May 1940 and occupied for five years. | | | The Trade Information Office is a Dutch association which is specialized in supplying trade information and establishing business contacts between the Netherlands and countries everywhere in the world. | | | This page aims to give you a broad overview of Netherlands' art, culture, people, environment, geography, history, economy and government. |
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| | Holland and the Netherlands |
| | The main reasons for war were religious differences, disputes over taxes and the fact that when some cities wanted to break free, the King's army was quite brutal to civilians. | | | All maps, graphics and original descriptions created by Graphic Maps, a d/b/a of the Woolwine-Moen Group, unless otherwise noted and/or directly linked to the source, and use of same for any application whatsoever (with the exception of outline maps) requires written permission. | | | All these counties (called provinces today, together with some new ones) are now called "The Kingdom of the Netherlands." MAP |
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| | Brabant: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | The former département Dyle became the new province of Brabant. | | | After the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, the United Provinces ' de jure independence was confirmed, and the northern part of Brabant, which was already under Dutch military control, was ceded to the United Provinces as Staats-Brabant, a federally governed territory (the present North Brabant). | | | In 1995 the province of Brabant was split into the Dutch speaking Flemish Brabant, the French speaking Walloon Brabant and the bilingual Brussels-Capital Region. |
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| | An ancient city-state in southern Turkey, based at what was later called Edessa and now Urfa. | | | A confederation of Western Semitic tribes in what is now southern Israel. | | | An island in the southern Windwards, Caribbean Sea. |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Netherlands Antilles |
| | the five islands of the Netherlands Antilles are divided geographically into the Leeward Islands (northern) group (Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten) and the Windward Islands (southern) group (Bonaire and Curacao) | | | defense is the responsibility of the Kingdom of the Netherlands | | | This page was last updated on 17 May, 2005 |
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| | Austrian Netherlands (1713-1786) |
| | The company was allowed to make treaties with indigeneous peoples and to found colonies. | | | I checked a original document in the archives and indeed the flag is listed as shown above. | | | The United Provinces doubted the legitimacy of the Flemish colonial trade, based on Hugo de Groot's De iure belli ac pacis, while the Southern Netherlands based their policy on Hugo de Groot's Mare liberum. |
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| | Southern Cruises in the Caribbean |
| | In 1954 Aruba became part of the Netherlands Antilles and beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Aruba began to push for independence. | | | In 1983 it was decided that beginning in 1986, Aruba would receive a separate status from the Netherlands Antilles and that it would be fully independent in 1996. | | | Under the Dutch, the island became a base for the Dutch West India Company. |
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http://www.find-caribbean-cruises.com/southern_caribbean_cruises.asp
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| | Southern Cross Group: Contact Us - Netherlands |
| | You can make your donation using the Amazon Honor System. | | | If you send us a query which we judge will take more than 15 minutes to answer, we will e-mail you back and ask you to make a donation of a suggested amount to the Southern Cross Group before we provide you with an answer. | | | Why do around 9,000 Australians choose to live in the Netherlands? |
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| | It was however only after the convertion of the Frisians, in 695, that the first Dutch diocese of Utrecht - which became an Archdiocese in 1559 - was erected. | | | Catholicism was introduced in the southern parts of the Netherlands in the 4th century. |
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| | Research project Personal letters in the Southern Netherlands 1500-1800: fami ... |
| | This project aims to inventarize a particular kind of personal documents, personal letters, kept in public archives as well as in private possession. | | | Research project Personal letters in the Southern Netherlands 1500-1800: fami... | | | Personal letters in the Southern Netherlands 1500-1800: family strategy, leisure and personal lives. |
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| | Archaeology of agrarian communities in the Lower Meuse area |
| | Several projects deal with different aspects of these agrarian communities: social organization, economy, burial ritual, exchange systems, settlements systems, etc. As much as possible these aspects are studied from a dia-chronical perspective and within the setting of a changing natural and social environment. | | | The research programme Agrarian communities in the Lower Meuse area combines all research carried out in the Faculty of Pre- en Protohistory of the Leiden University concerning the Late Neolithic until the Roman Period in the southern part of the Netherlands and neighbouring areas. |
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| | Eindhoven -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Their language is Dutch, which is also called Netherlandic. | | | This image of The Netherlands as a mainly agricultural... | | | Many people think of The Netherlands as a country of windmills, canals, tulips, and wooden shoes, with cheese and butter as its main products. |
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| | Explosion damages Muslim school in southern Netherlands town |
| | How many Muslim schools are teaching hate in the U.S. and around the world? | | | EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AP) - An explosion blew the door off a Muslim school in a southern Dutch town and shattered windows across the street Monday, Dutch television reported. | | | ***...In the Netherlands, reports surfaced after the attack on the US that Dutch Islamic schools were teaching anti- Western lessons,... |
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| | Fanfare Orchestra of the Netherlands in Concert - Recording available from Southern Music Company. |
| | It is no accident that the title of the first track - Eclips - has found its way into the design. | | | The fact that all pieces were recorded live adds enormous value to this set. | | | The NFO's members are without exception professional brass players from leading orchestras who indulge their love for "fanfare" music playing in this extraordinary band. |
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| | Velle, Jos. - Special Collections NEHA |
| | Southern Netherlands 1395-1801 (export permits 1603-1666, Malines tithes on fish, 1395-1556, tithes in Brabant 1564, way-bills, 1539-1801, other customs affairs, 1463-1740) | | | Southern Netherlands, 1420-1775 (Brabant 1443-1727, Antwerp Right to levy excises, 1420-1453, Antwerp Taxing the clergy 1657, Antwerp 'Kasteelcijns' ca. | | | Southern Netherlands 1527-1847 (Antwerp 1527-1847, Deurne 1587, Dinant n.d., Jette 1573-1578, Lierre 1576-1652, Louvain 1572, Mons 1663, unknown 1589 and n.d.) |
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| | Bonnefanten museum Maastricht |
| | Classical stories and biblical scenes were often used as a pretext for painting voluptuous nudes on large canvases, as can be seen in the paintings by Hendrick van Balen and Jacob Jordaens. | | | This agreement serves as a significant step towards making collections more mobile within the Netherlands. | | | Next year, the current loan scheme will be extended further due to the ongoing refurbishment of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which as a result will only be able to exhibit the highlights of 17th century art from the Northern Netherlands. |
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| | January 23 - The Union of Utrecht united the northern Netherlands in a confederation called the United Provinces. | | | January 6 - The Union of Atrecht united the southern Netherlands under the Duke of Parma, governor in the name of king Philip II of Spain. | | | William I of Orange becomes Stadtholder, and the Duc d'Anjou, younger brother of Henry III of France is invited to become hereditary sovereign. |
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| | WHKMLA : History of the Belgium, Index Page |
| | Middle Ages : The Netherlands and the Sea | | | Middle Ages : The Netherlands before the Burgundians, 1300-1490 | | | Unification of the Netherlands : The Burgundian Period, 1384-1515 |
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| | Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations |
| | Availability information may be found in the Availability, Publisher, Research Organization, Resource Relation and/or Author (affiliation information) fields and/or via the "Full-text Availability" link. | | | Energy Citations Database (ECD) Document #6964371 - Salt tectonics in the southern North Sea, Netherlands | | | Salt tectonics in the southern North Sea, Netherlands |
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| | Alabama or AL Ontario or ON United Kingdom or UK WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. | | | The Low Countries : history of the northern and southern Netherlands |
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| | Biographies on the History of Belgium, by Period |
| | For the history of the Southern Netherlands prior to 1579, go to Biographies, Netherlands Page | | | worked to introduce the Gallican liberties to the church of the Austrian Netherlands (Ecclesia Belgica) | | | article from History Today, 63 lines; from Marc Nollet (click Spanish Netherlands, history); a numismatic site including biographic information, illustrated |
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