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Capital of the Netherlands
Amsterdam; the government and parliament sit in The Hague.
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Head of state
King Willem-Alexander, king since 30 April 2013.
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Dutch parliament
The States General: the House of Representatives (150 seats) and the Senate (75 seats).
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Eighty Years' War
1568 to 1648, ending with the Peace of Münster.
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Union of Utrecht
1579, regarded as the foundation of the Dutch Republic.
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VOC
The Dutch East India Company, founded in 1602.
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Kingdom of the Netherlands founded
1815, with William I as the first king.
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Belgian separation
1830, after an uprising in Brussels.
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Women's suffrage
Introduced in 1919.
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German invasion
10 May 1940.
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Liberation Day
5 May, marking the end of the occupation in 1945.
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Suriname independence
1975.
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Indonesian sovereignty
Recognised by the Netherlands in 1949.
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Treaty of Rome
1957, creating the European Economic Community; the Netherlands was a founding member.
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Maastricht Treaty
1992, signed in Maastricht, creating the European Union.
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Euro cash
Euro banknotes and coins entered circulation in 2002.
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Highest point
The Vaalserberg in Limburg.
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Newest province
Flevoland, formed in 1986 on reclaimed land.
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Number of provinces
Twelve in the European part of the country.
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Afsluitdijk
A dike of about 32 kilometres, completed in 1932, that created the IJsselmeer.
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Delta Works
Built after the North Sea flood of 1953 in the south-west.
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Largest port in Europe
Rotterdam.
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Rembrandt
Painter of The Night Watch (1642), born in Leiden in 1606.
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Vermeer
Painter of Girl with a Pearl Earring, born in Delft in 1632.
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Van Gogh
Painter born in Zundert in 1853; his museum is in Amsterdam.
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Huygens
Invented the pendulum clock in 1656 and discovered Saturn's moon Titan.
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Leeuwenhoek
Seventeenth-century microscopist from Delft.
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Kamerlingh Onnes
Discovered superconductivity in 1911; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1913.
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Dutch national bird
The black-tailed godwit (grutto), chosen in 2015.
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King's Day
27 April, a national holiday with orange clothing and street markets.

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