One traditional festivity in the Netherlands is the feast of Sint Nicolaas or Sinterklaas.

In the Netherlands, gift-bringing at Christmas has in recent decades gained some popularity too, but Sinterklaas is much more popular.

In the Netherlands they also celebrate Sinterklaas on December 5.

In the Netherlands, Zwarte Piet ( Dutch for " Black Pete ") is a servant of Sinterklaas, who delivers bags of presents on the 5th of December and takes naugthy kids back in the now empty bags.

( Suriname was a Dutch colony and once it became independent of the Netherlands, " Sinterklaas ", which is a Dutch Christmas celebration, was removed.

A chocolate letter, typical Sinterklaas candy in the Netherlands

Sinterklaas ( or more formally Sint Nicolaas or Sint Nikolaas ; Saint Nicolas in French ; Sankt Nikolaus in German ) is a traditional Winter holiday figure still celebrated today in the Low Countries, including the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as French Flanders ( Lille ) and Artois ( Arras ).

Another close relative can be found in the Netherlands that goes by the name of borstplaat, eaten during the time that Sinterklaas is celebrated.

Staartjes used to present the annual arrival of Sinterklaas in the Netherlands.

It is celebrated on the evening before Sinterklaas ' birthday on December 5, especially in families with little children.

The Dutch festival of Sinterklaas was celebrated as “ St Nick ’ s Day ” ( December 5 ).

The Dutch festival of Sinterklaas ( dedicated to Saint Nicholas, celebrating his name day ) is held on 5 December.

In the Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Austria, Germany, Scandinavia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Catalonia, 26 December is celebrated as the Second Christmas Day.

In December 1584, an alliance between Philip II and the French Catholic League at Joinville undermined the ability of Anjou's brother, Henry III of France, to counter Spanish domination of the Netherlands.

Go Nutz, the album Brood had recorded while in the States, and the movie Cha-Cha, which finally premiered in December 1979, were considered artistic failures, even though Go Nutz produced three charting singles in the Netherlands and the Cha Cha soundtrack attained platinum status.

The Netherlands tried to reestablish their rule, but a bitter armed and diplomatic struggle ended in December 1949, when in the face of international pressure, the Dutch formally recognised Indonesian independence.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Ben Bot travelled to Damascus, negotiated and on December 22 the children finally could return to the Netherlands.

On 15 December 1954, the Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, and the Netherlands acceded as equal partners to an overarching Kingdom of the Netherlands as established in the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Python was conceived in the late 1980s and its implementation was started in December 1989 by Guido van Rossum at CWI in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC language ( itself inspired by SETL ) capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system.

While he was still on the embassy to the Netherlands, Paul III created him the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme on 19 December 1539.

A bust of Stuyvesant by Dutch artist: nl: Toon Dupuis | Toon Dupuis which was presented by Wilhelmina of the Netherlands | Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and the Dutch Government to St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on December 5, 1915

Vesalius was born to Andries van Wesele and Isabel Crabbe on 31 December 1514, in Brussels, which was then part of the Habsburg Netherlands.

VSO has offices in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Kenya and the Philippines and a recruiting partner in India ; as of December 2004, it has volunteers of 14 different nationalities on placement.

Tests can be seen and read in the following magazines: Yachting Monthly, November 2010 ; the German magazine Yacht, January 2011 ; the Water kampioen from the Netherlands, May 2011 and in Voile magazine in December 2011 in France.

* December 23 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1966 until 1967 ( b. 1918 )

* December 27 – Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants Indonesia sovereignty.

* December 1 – Netherlands New Guinea raises the new Morning Star flag and changes its name to West Papua.

* December – Siege of Haarlem is begun by the Duke of Alva, Spanish commander in the Netherlands.

* December 16 – The Heineken Brewery is founded in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

* December 24 – Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 until 1977 ( b. 1919 )

* December 14 – Dirk Jan de Geer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 1960 )

* December 6 – William II of the Netherlands ( d. 1849 )

Export partners: Russia 17. 5 %, Netherlands 14. 9 %, Germany 14. 7 %, Ireland 11. 1 %, Belgium 8. 7 %, Georgia 7. 6 %, US 6. 6 %, Switzerland 4. 3 %, Bulgaria 4. 1 %, Ukraine 4 % ( 2007 )

Import partners: Russia 17. 5 %, Netherlands 14. 9 %, Germany 14. 7 %, Ireland 11. 1 %, Belgium 8. 7 %, Georgia 7. 6 %, US 6. 6 %, Switzerland 4. 3 %, Bulgaria 4. 1 %, Ukraine 4 % ( 2007 )

France 16. 2 %, Netherlands 12. 7 %, Cameroon 9. 5 %, United States 6. 2 % ( 2007 )

USA 25. 7 %, China 14. 1 %, Netherlands 10. 9 %, UK 6. 3 %, Mexico 5 % ( 2007 )

" Rage Hard " eventually hit Number 4 in the UK singles charts and Number 1 in Germany ( for two weeks ), # 5 in Switzerland, # 7 in the Netherlands, # 12 in Austria, # 19 in Sweden and # 32 in France.

The non-German Germanic languages language group ( 0. 5 %) like Danish, Dutch and Frisian were located in the north and northwest of the empire, near the borders with Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Argentina 9, Australia 2, Austria 15, Belgium 9, Brazil 5, Canada 4, Cayman Islands 1, Chile 7, China 39, Croatia 11, Denmark 4, Ecuador 1, Estonia 1, Germany 437, Greece 154, Hong Kong 69, India 5, Indonesia 1, Israel 1, Italy 5, Japan 90, Latvia 20, Man, Isle of 5, Monaco 56, Netherlands 12, New Zealand 1, Nigeria 1, Norway 103, Pakistan 1, Portugal 5, Russia 66, Saudi Arabia 21, Singapore 20, Slovenia 1, South Africa 1, South Korea 10, Spain 2, Sweden 9, Switzerland 17, Taiwan 29, Turkey 3, Ukraine 4, United Arab Emirates 12, United Kingdom 39, United States 113, Uruguay 3, Vietnam 1 ( 2002 est.

It is situated in Holland ( then as now used by English speakers as shorthand for the Netherlands ) but by treaty is garrisoned by Prussians and 5, 000 of their troops occupy it under a Prince of Hesse.

includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Belgium 7, Denmark 1, France 17, Germany 5, Netherlands 2, United Kingdom 8, United States 4 ( 2008 est.

This includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Australia 4, Austria 6, Bangladesh 1, Belgium 3, Bulgaria 19, Canada 2, China 16, Croatia 14, Cuba 1, Cyprus 7, Denmark 3, Estonia 5, Finland 1, Germany 54, Greece 627, Hong Kong 12, Iceland 3, India 10, Iran 2, Israel 26, Italy 36, Japan 2, Latvia 24, Lebanon 6, Monaco 29, Netherlands 10, Nigeria 2, Norway 43, Poland 29, Portugal 2, Romania 15, Russia 85, Saudi Arabia 1, Slovenia 2, South Korea 5, Spain 1, Switzerland 54, Syria 4, Turkey 84, Ukraine 25, United Arab Emirates 3, United Kingdom 4, United States 10 ( 2002 est.

* May 5 is Liberation Day in the Netherlands, celebrating the ending of the German occupation.

The costs of this Commission are met by all these countries, in proportion of their own territory into the basin of the Meuse: The Netherlands and Wallonia 30 %, France 15 %, Germany 14. 5 %, Flanders 5 %, Brussels 4. 5 %, Kingdom of Belgium and Luxemburg 0. 5 %.

William and the Dutch army, without Mary who stayed behind in the Netherlands, finally landed on 5 November, having been turned back by storms in October.

The Netherlands has a motorway density of 57. 5 kilometers per 1, 000 km², the most dense motorway network in the European Union.

In the Netherlands 9. 5 % of young adults ( aged 15 – 34 ) consume soft drugs once a month, comparable to the level of Finland ( 8 %), Latvia ( 9, 7 %) and Norway ( 9. 6 %) and less than in the UK ( 13. 8 %), Germany ( 11, 9 %), Czech Republic ( 19, 3 %), Denmark ( 13, 3 %), Spain ( 18. 8 %), France ( 16, 7 %), Slovakia ( 14, 7 %) and Italy ( 20, 9 %) but higher than in Bulgaria ( 4, 4 %), Sweden ( 4, 8 %), Poland ( 5, 3 %) or Greece ( 3, 2 %).