microwave radio relay to island of Saint Martin ( Guadeloupe and Netherlands Antilles )

Due to mutual agreements with foreign clubs, the youth academy has also signed foreign players as teenagers before making first team debuts, such as Belgian defensive trio Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Thomas Vermaelen ( now with Arsenal ) and winger Tom de Mul ( now with Sevilla ), all of whom are full internationals as well as Dutch youth international Javier Martina and Vurnon Anita of the Netherlands Antilles.

UK, US, Netherlands Antilles, Japan ( 2004 )

Other settlements were established on the Netherlands Antilles, several other Caribbean islands, Suriname and Guyana.

France 63 %, Germany 4 %, US 3 %, Japan 2 %, Netherlands Antilles 2 % ( 1997 )

The IKEA trademark and concept is controlled by a series of corporations that can be traced to the Netherlands Antilles and to the Interogo Foundation in Liechtenstein.

Inter IKEA Holding, in turn, belongs to an identically named company in the former Netherlands Antilles that is run by a trust company based in Curaçao.

* Emancipation Day ( Netherlands Antilles )

note: many Dutch-owned ships are also operating under the registry of Netherlands Antilles ( 1998 est.

In recent years, it also introduced so-called 100 % checks and bodyscans at Schiphol Airport on incoming flights from Dutch overseas territories Aruba and Netherlands Antilles to prevent importing cocaine by means of swallowing balloons by mules.

The Netherlands Antilles ( Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen, Papiamentu: Antia Hulandes ), also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

There were two island groups in the Netherlands Antilles, both in the Lesser Antilles.

The rest of the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved on 10 October 2010, with Curaçao and Sint Maarten becoming two new constituent countries and with the other islands becoming special municipalities within the Netherlands.

The territory was renamed to " Netherlands Antilles " as well.

After the Dutch constitution was revised in 1948, a new interim Constitution of the Netherlands Antilles was enacted in February 1951.

Shortly thereafter, on 3 March 1951, the Island Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles () was issued by royal decree, giving fairly large autonomy to the various island territories in the Netherlands Antilles.

A consolidated version of this regulation remained in force until the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010.

The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.

In any case, Marlborough had promised to return to the Netherlands if a French attack developed there, transferring his troops down the Rhine on barges at a rate of a day.

Although the Allies had captured Barcelona that year, they had been forced to abandon their campaign on the Moselle, had stalled in the Spanish Netherlands, and suffered defeat in northern Italy.

Town after town subsequently fell, including Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp ; by the end of the campaign Villeroi's army had been driven from most of the Spanish Netherlands.

The Anglo-Dutch forces gained minor compensation for the failed Moselle campaign with the success at Elixheim and the crossing of the Lines of Brabant in the Spanish Netherlands ( Huy was also retaken on 11 July ), but a chance to bring the French to a decisive engagement had eluded Marlborough.

By the time Marlborough had closed down the Ramillies campaign he had denied the French most of the Spanish Netherlands west of the Meuse and north of the Sambre – it was an unsurpassed operational triumph for the English Duke.

Bunge & Born was founded in 1884 by Ernesto Bunge, a German Argentine whose uncle, Carl Bunge, had been Consul General in Argentina for both the Netherlands and Prussia, and his brother-in-law, Jorge Born, who had recently arrived from Antwerp.

As had its predecessor, the English Army, the British Army fought Spain, France, and the Netherlands for supremacy in North America and the West Indies.

From Paris, he had paid short visits to the Netherlands ( 1841 ) and England ( 1842 ).

Germany had its hierarchical social strata like The Netherlands before the 20th century.

However Mansfeld, who had learned his profession in Hungary and the Netherlands, often used horses to make his foot troops more mobile, creating what was called an " armée volante " ( French for flying army ).

Soon, the war began to go well ; French troops marched across the southern half of the Netherlands ( which would later become Belgium ), and the emergency that had placed the Committee of Public Safety in control was no more.

The city had 217, 192 inhabitants ( February 2012 ) and 261, 082 if adjacent Veldhoven is included, making it the fifth-largest city of the Netherlands and the largest of North Brabant.

At the establishment of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815, Eindhoven had 2. 310 inhabitants.

Elizabeth saw this as a Dutch ploy to force her to accept sovereignty over the Netherlands, which so far she had always declined.

Belgian journalist Jo Gérard has claimed that a family manuscript dated 1781 recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is now present-day Belgium, in the Meuse valley: " The inhabitants of Namur, Andenne, and Dinant, had the custom of fishing in the Meuse for small fish and frying, especially among the poor, but when the river was frozen and fishing became hazardous, they cut potatoes in the form of small fish and put them in a fryer like those here ".

The French armies defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Jemappes on 6 November, and had soon taken over most of the Austrian Netherlands.

By the time of his resignation as chairman of the board in 1989 he had transformed Heineken from a brand that was known chiefly in the Netherlands to a brand that is currently famous worldwide.

A study in the Netherlands found that children to non-Western immigrants had improvements for g, educational achievements, and work proficiency compared to their parents although there were still remaining differences to ethnic Dutch.

The English outbreak is thought to have spread from the Netherlands, where the bubonic plague had been occurring intermittently since 1599, with the initial contagion arriving with Dutch trading ships carrying bales of cotton from Amsterdam.

From 1515 to 1523, the Habsburg government in the Netherlands also had to contend with the Frisian peasant rebellion, led first by Pier Gerlofs Donia and then by his nephew Wijerd Jelckama.

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

The Netherlands Antilles had 364 kilometers ( 432 km² before 1986 ) of coastline.

With 101 inhabitants per square kilometre ( 262 / sq mi ), Slovenia ranks low among the European countries in population density ( compared to 402 / km² ( 1042 / sq mi ) for the Netherlands or 195 / km² ( 505 / sq mi ) for Italy ).

With a population of 3, 502, 595 ( 30 November 2009 ) and an area of 3, 403 km², the province has the highest population density in the Netherlands.

The state comprises a land area of 34, 083 km² ( 13, 158 square miles ) and shares borders with Belgium in the southwest and the Netherlands in the west and northwest.

Satellite image of Noordoostpolder, Netherlands ( 595. 41 km² )

IJsselmeer (; Lake IJssel, alternative international spelling: Lake Yssel ) is a shallow artificial lake of 1100 km² in the central Netherlands bordering the provinces of Flevoland, North Holland and Friesland, with an average depth of 5 to 6 m. The IJsselmeer is the largest lake in Western Europe.

The Wadden Sea stretches from Den Helder in the Netherlands in the southwest, past the great river estuaries of Germany to its northern boundary at Skallingen north of Esbjerg in Denmark along a total length of some 500 km and a total area of about 10, 000 km².

The Zuiderzee Works in the Netherlands turned the dangerous Zuiderzee, a shallow inlet of the North Sea, into the tame IJsselmeer, and created 1650 km² of land.

Nederweert () () is a municipality and a town in southeastern Netherlands with 16. 561 inhabitants as of November 1, 2006 ( bron: Statistics Netherlands ) and has a surface area of 101, 78 km² ( of which 1, 51 km² is water ).

Before its merger, it was the smallest municipality in the Netherlands, covering an area of only 1. 75 km².

Since exploration of the Slochteren ( Netherlands ) gas field started in the late 1960s the ground level over a 250 km² area has dropped by a current maximum of 30 cm.

This is in an area of 46, 000 km²-by comparison, the Netherlands, with an area of 33, 000 km², has 1400 species, none of them endemic.

It is said that an area ( of both Sweden and Norway ) corresponding to 9 % of Sweden's surface area can be seen from the summit, which approximates to more than 40, 000 km² – almost the size of the Netherlands.

In its most limited form ( a merger of Flanders and the Netherlands ), a Greater Netherlands would consist of 23 million inhabitants ; would comprise an area of 54, 900 km² ( equivalent to a population density of 418 persons / km² ); and would possess a GDP per capita of $ US38, 700.

The Veluwe is a forest-rich ridge of hills ( 1100 km² ) in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands.