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Kingdom of the Netherlands

Changes were proposed in the 7 December 1942 radio speech by Queen Wilhelmina.


Consulate General of the United States, Curaçao

The Consulate General of the United States of America Curaçao is located in Willemstad and serves Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten (countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) as well as Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius (special municipalities of the Netherlands).

Dutch Republic

In 1815 it was rejoined with the Austrian Netherlands, Luxembourg and Liège (the 'Southern provinces') to become the Kingdom of the Netherlands, informally known as the Kingdom of the United Netherlands, to create a strong buffer state north of France.

Royal Netherlands Naval College

With the forming of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 10 January 1816, an institute for training naval officers was founded in Delft.

United Kingdom of the Netherlands

This state, a large part of which still exists today as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, was made up of the former Dutch Republic (Republic of the Seven United Netherlands) to the north, the former Austrian Netherlands to the south, and the former Prince-Bishopric of Liège.


see also

Dutch nobility

Duke (This title has become extinct in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.)

Marquise (This title has become extinct in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.)

Guillermo Fernández

Guillermo Fernández de Soto, a Colombian lawyer and diplomat, who has served as Secretary General of the Andean Community of Nations, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, and Ambassador of Colombia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

#The "Arctic Sunrise" Case (Kingdom of the Netherlands v. Russian Federation) (ongoing)

Revolution of 1830

The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands leading to the creation of Belgium