At the time of the Roman arrival, the Netherlands were inhabited by Germanic tribes, such as the Tubanti, the Canninefates, and the Frisians, who had settled there around 600 BC. Celtic tribes settled the South, among them the Eburones and the Menapii.
In the 16th Century the land came under Spanish Rule and the Dutch revolted. Their leader was Willem of Orange and in 1581 the Republic of the United Netherlands was formed.
During the Dutch period—roughly the 17th century—Jakob Le Maire and Willem Corneliszoon Schouten discovered inhabited islands in the northern Tuamotu Archipelago, as well as islands in the Tonga group and Alofi and Futuna islands. The best-known of the Dutch explorers, Abel Janszoon Tasman, visited islands in the…
Establishment of the Kingdom of Holland, 1806.
In 1806 the Batavian Republic became the Kingdom of Holland, and Napoleon Bonaparte's brother, Louis Bonaparte, was installed as king.
Netherlands. Popular belief holds that the Dutch are a mixture of Frisians, Saxons, and Franks. In fact, research has made plausible the contention that the autochthonous inhabitants of the region were a mixture of pre-Germanic and Germanic population groups who in the course of time had converged on the main deltaic…
The Dutch didn't regard themselves as Germans any more since the 15th century, but they officially remained a part of Germany until 1648.
The Netherlands did not colonise Australia, but Dutch people in small numbers were present from 1788 onwards. Cornelius Du Heg, a seaman on the First Fleet transport Friendship, was possibly the first Dutchman to visit Port Jackson.
“Netherlands” means low-lying country; the name Holland (from Houtland, or “Wooded Land”) was originally given to one of the medieval cores of what later became the modern state and is still used for 2 of its 12 provinces (Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland).
The Seventeen Provinces formed the core of the Habsburg Netherlands which passed to the Spanish Habsburgs upon the abdication of Emperor Charles V in 1556.
The Dutch fought for independence from Spain, leading to the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648). Seven rebellious provinces united in the Union of Utrecht in 1579 and formed the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (also known as the "United Provinces").
The word Dutch comes from a Proto-Germanic word meaning “of the people.” It shares a root with the German word Deutsch, which has led to some confusing names. The name Germans call Germany, for example, is Deutschland and the people there Deutsch. Dutch and German are related, after all, both being Germanic languages.
There is still debate about whether the Dutch are related to the Vikings, but most experts believe they descended from a common ancestor. The first recorded mention of the Dutch comes from Pliny the Elder in A.D. 77, who described them as pirates who attacked Roman settlements on the North Sea.
Because tourists primarily visit cities in the region of Holland, largely ignoring the other 10 provinces, the government has decided to work to attract focus on the country as a whole. The Dutch government is transitioning to using “The Netherlands” in all of its official branding.
The Dutch (Dutch: Nederlanders) are the people of the Netherlands.
The Germanic variants led directly to distinct languages, namely Old Dutch, approximately around 500 A.D. Dutch thus dates back roughly 500 years. You can think of it this way to make it more transparent. The first language is German, and Dutch is not older than English.
Of Roman origin (its name derives from 'Noviomagus' meaning 'new market') the city celebrated its 2000th anniversary in 2005. This makes Nijmegen the oldest city in the Netherlands.
The Koninkrijk der Nederlanden (Kingdom of the Netherlands) is made up of 4 countries: Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and the Netherlands.
There is no one Aboriginal word that all Aborigines use for Australia; however, today they call Australia, ""Australia"" because that is what it is called today. There are more than 250 aboriginal tribes in Australia. Most of them didn't have a word for ""Australia""; they just named places around them.
After Dutch navigators charted the northern, western and southern coasts of Australia during the 17th Century this newly found continent became known as 'New Holland'. It was the English explorer Matthew Flinders who suggested the name we use today.
A small Dutch ship called the Duyfken entered the pages of Australian history when it became the first European vessel to make a recorded visit to the south land's shore in 1606.
Its closest relative is the mutually intelligible daughter language Afrikaans. Other West Germanic languages related to Dutch are German, English and the Frisian languages and the un-standardised languages Low German and Yiddish.
The closest language to English is one called Frisian, which is a Germanic language spoken by a small population of about 480,000 people. There are three separate dialects of the language, and it's only spoken at the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany.
The Dutch Empire. The Dutch Empire is the name given to the various territories controlled by the Netherlands from the 17th to the 20th century. The Netherlands reigned supreme during much of the 17th century, which is known as Dutch Golden Age.