Loroupe won the Zevenheuvelenloop 15K race in the Netherland three times ( 1992, 1993 and 1998 ).

* 2009 Joseph O ' Neill, Netherland

Chester County replaced the Pennsylvania portion of New Netherland / New York ’ s Upland, which was officially eliminated when Pennsylvania was chartered on March 4, 1681, but did not actually cease to exist until June of that year.

*“ Long-Overdue Brokaw / Bragaw Additions & Corrections: The European Origins of Bourgon < sup > 1 </ sup > Broucard and Catherine le Fevre ” from New Netherland Connections ( October, November, December 2010 ; Volume 15 ; Number 4 ) by Perry Streeter

His great-great-great-grandfather, Jan Aertszoon or Aertson ( 1620 – 1705 ), was a Dutch / Romanian farmer from the village of De Bilt, Utrecht, Netherlands, who emigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland as an indentured servant in 1650.

*“ Descendants of Wade Netherland Woodson and Mary Harris Woodson and Alice Cheek Woodson ” page, Cobb-Sasser Family Lineage site http :// cobbsasser. com / WoodsnWadeMryHarisAlCheek. html

Netherland Dwarfs have a reputation of being skittish, wild, and / or of a disagreeable nature.

* 1992 Stichting Wertheim Award, Netherland.

On April 12, 2010 Netherland was announced as one of the 8 novels on the shortlist for the 2010 Dublin Literary Award.

Very elaborate and complex schemes for town defences were developed in the Netherland and France but these belong mainly to the post-medieval periods.

On their 1614 map, which gave them a four year trade monopoly under a patent of the States General, they named the newly discovered and mapped territory New Netherland for the first time.

* 1614 – Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.

* January 9 – Peter Minuit sails from Texel Island for America's New Netherland colony, with 2 ships of Dutch emigrants.

* May 4 – Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherland for the Dutch West India Company.

) The ship Arms of Amsterdam arrives in Europe from New Netherland ( left September 23 ) with the news: " They have purchased the Island Manhattes from the Indians for the value of 60 guilders.

* October 11 – Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named " New Netherland ".

The English conquered the New Netherland colony in 1664, but the situation did not really change until 1682, when the area was included in William Penn's charter for Pennsylvania.

In 1602, the government of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands chartered the Dutch East India Company ( Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie ), or VOC with the mission of exploring it for a passage to the Indies and claiming any uncharted areas for the United Provinces, which led to several significant expeditions which led to the creation of the province of New Netherland.

The WIC sought recognition for the area in the New World – which had been called New Netherland – as a province, which was granted in 1623.

This conflict ended with the Treaty of Breda in which the Dutch gave up their claim to New Netherland in exchange for Suriname.

On July 31, 1667, under the Treaty of Breda the Dutch offered New Netherland ( including New Amsterdam, modern-day New York City ) in exchange for their sugar factories on the coast of Suriname.

After the British took control of New Netherland in August 1664, the relations with the English and Native Americans became better for a while.

Lubbers is an active member of the international Earth Charter Commission and reaches out, especially to youth in the Netherland, with the message of the Earth Charter for a sustainable and peaceful world.

* Flushing Remonstrance, a demand for religious liberty made to Peter Stuyvesant, the Governor of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, in 1657

When Henry Hudson sailed up what would become known as the Hudson River in 1607, he claimed the entirety of the watershed of the river, including Englewood, for the Netherlands, making the future region of Englewood a part of New Netherland.

In 1642, Myndert Myndertsen received a patroonship as part of the New Netherland colony for much the land in the Hackensack and Passaic valleys.

The town is named for 1620 Dutch captain named Cornelius Jacobsen Mey who explored and charted the area between 1611 – 1614, and established a claim for the province of New Netherland.

The area of what is today Union City was originally inhabited by the Munsee-speaking branch of Lenni Lenape Native Americans, who wandered into the vast woodland area encountered by Henry Hudson during the voyages he conducted from 1609-1610 for the Dutch, who later claimed the area ( which included the future New York City ) and named it New Netherland.

Mary, advised by her stepmother, Margaret of York, distrusted Louis, declined the French alliance, and turned to her Netherland subjects for help.

Legend has it that under a tulip tree in the park Peter Minuit, Director General of New Netherland, ' purchased ' Manhattan from the a band of Native Americans in 1626 for the Dutch West India Company ; the purchase price being a shipment of goods worth 60 guilders.

The early settlers in the Dutch colony of New Netherland held informal meetings for worship until Jonas Michaelius organized the first Dutch Reformed congregation in New Amsterdam, now New York City, in 1628 called the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, now the Marble Collegiate Church.

Located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary " fort " was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good when Fort Orange ( New Netherland ) was built in 1623.

When the English finally regained control of New Netherland they forced, as a punishment unique in the history of the British Empire, the English common law upon all the colonists, including the Dutch.

Initially, half of Connecticut was a part of the Dutch colony, New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers.

In 1651, the Dutch, reinvigorated by the leadership of Peter Stuyvesant, established a fort at present-day New Castle, and in 1655 they conquered the New Sweden colony, annexing it into the Dutch New Netherland.

The New Netherland area, which included New Amsterdam, covered parts of present-day New York, Connecticut, Delaware, and New Jersey.

The settlers Albert Burgh, Samuel Blommaert, Samuel Godijn, Johannes de Laet had little success with populating the colony of the New Netherland, and to defend themselves against local Indians.

Three of them ( later to be known as Liberty, Black Tom and Ellis ) were given the name Oyster Islands by the settlers of New Netherland, the first European colony in the Mid-Atlantic states.

The circumstances which led to an exclave of New York being located within New Jersey began in the colonial era, after the British takeover of New Netherland in 1664.

The English conquered the Dutch settlement of New Netherland in 1664 and Greenwich Village developed as a hamlet separate from the larger ( and fast-growing ) New York City to the south.

Called " factories " ( because the " factor ," i. e., a person acting as a mercantile agent did business from there ), these posts operated in the manner of the Dutch fur trading operations in New Netherland.

18th-century map by Pierre Mortier of The Netherland s depicting with detail the islands of the Maldive s.

* 1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland ( present day Manhattan Island ) aboard the See Meeuw.

* 1647 – Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.

Netherland: Stichting Mars Society Nederland http :// www. marssociety. nl

The Dutch Chapter of the Mars Society ( Mars Society Netherland ) started with its successful website in 1999.

New Amsterdam () was a 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement on the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as capital city of New Netherland.

The settlement, outside of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in the New Netherland territory ( 1614 – 1664 ), was situated between 38 and 42 degrees latitude and was a provincial extension of the Dutch Republic as of 1624.

It also showed the first year-round trading presence in New Netherland, Fort Nassau, which would be replaced in 1624 by Fort Orange, which eventually grew into the town of Beverwyck, now Albany.

The territory of New Netherland, containing the Northeast's largest rivers with access to the beaver trade, was originally a private, profit-making commercial enterprise focusing on cementing alliances and conducting trade with the diverse Indian tribes.

Peter Stuyvesant ( c. 1612 – August 1672 ), served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.