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Netherlands

Constitutional monarchy; Kingdom established 1815. Founding EU/Benelux member; seat of government in The Hague.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 5 border frames for Netherlands — the shape you scrub through changes in 1815 · 1897 · 1922 · 1934 · 1945.

Moments from the Chronicle

• 1975 Suriname independence Dutch Guiana, the Netherlands' last mainland American colony, became the independent Republic of Suriname on 25 November 1975, with Paramaribo as its capital.
• 2010 Haiti's earthquake A magnitude-7.0 quake devastates Port-au-Prince; the Netherlands Antilles dissolves the same year.

Further reading

• The Embarrassment of Riches Simon Schama · 1987

  Classic study of Dutch culture in the Golden Age, foundational to national identity.

• The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806 Jonathan Israel · 1995

  Era/regional sweeping history of the Dutch state from the late medieval period to the eve of the 1815 kingdom, the deep context for the modern Netherlands.

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Sources

• Wikipedia: Netherlands
• Wikidata Q55 (Netherlands)