Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe, originally part of the Chatti, that lived around the Rhine delta, in the area that the Romans called Batavia and that is currently the Netherlands, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD.

It is currently on display in The Louvre, with exact replicas in the Oriental Institute in the University of Chicago, the library of the Theological University of the Reformed Churches ( Dutch: Theologische Universiteit Kampen voor de Gereformeerde Kerken ) in The Netherlands and the Pergamon Museum of Berlin.

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.

In the Netherlands there are currently 12 institutions regarded as TBS-clinics:

Koolhaas is the founding partner of OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO, currently based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

The International Studbook is currently managed at the Rotterdam Zoo in the Netherlands.

There are many Master of Laws ( LL. M ) programs currently being offered in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Netherlands etc.

Commercial broadcasting in the Netherlands is currently operated by two networks, RTL Nederland and SBS Broadcasting, which together broadcast seven commercial stations.

He was extradited to the Netherlands, and is currently in The Hague, in the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

The unofficial Poet Laureate of Netherlands is currently: Ramsey Nasr as Dichter des Vaderlands ( Poet of the Fatherland ).

The Netherlands Antillean guilder is currently the only guilder which is in use, which after the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles remained the currency of the new countries Curaçao and Sint Maarten and ( until 1 January 2011 ) the Caribbean Netherlands.

The freetekno movement appeared in first half of the 1990s and is currently very strong in France, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Austria, Poland, Canada and Cascadia – the US Pacific Northwest.

At the age of De Jong is the oldest living and earliest serving former Prime Minister of the Netherlands and the second oldest living former member of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands, after former Minister of Colonial Affairs Gerard Helders ( currently aged ) who served in the Third Drees cabinet ( 1957 – 1958 ) and the Second Beel cabinet ( 1958 – 1959 ).

De Goeijen sold a $ 3, 000, 000 stock issue for Stilwell's railroad and he was permitted to name the place after his hometown and birthplace of Zwolle, a riverside city of currently over 120, 000 population in the Netherlands.

The largest Mon refugee communities are currently in Thailand, with smaller communities in the United States ( the largest community being in Fort Wayne, Indiana and the second largest being Akron, Ohio ), Australia, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the Netherlands.

The content of Iconclass is currently maintained by the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie ( Netherlands Institute for Art History ).

The countries with the most active demogroups and demoparties are currently the Nordic countries ( Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark ), Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary and France.

Some of those artists include Dubblestandart from Vienna, Austria ( who recorded the album " Return from Planet Dub " in collaboration with, and performs live with, Lee Scratch Perry ), Liquid Stranger from Sweden, New York City artists including Ticklah, also known as Victor Axelrod, Victor Rice, Easy Star All-Stars, Dub Trio ( who have recorded and performed live with Mike Patton, and are currently touring as the backing band for Matisyahu ), Subatomic Sound System ( who have remixed material by Lee Scratch Perry and Ari Up ), Dub is a Weapon, King Django, Boom One Sound System, Dr. Israel, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad from Rochester, NY, Heavyweight Dub Champion from San Francisco and Colorado, Ott from the UK who has released several influential albums through Twisted Records, Future Pigeon from Los Angeles, German artists like Disrupt and Rootah from the Jahtari label, and Twilight Circus from the Netherlands.

Other manufacturers currently producing electrostatic loudspeakers include Immersion from Australia ;, Solosound in The Netherlands, King's Audio, Panphonics from Finland, Pune based Cadence Audio, T + A and Silberstatic from Germany.

The Royal Netherlands Navy currently operates 7 main classes of vessels:

Since conference and of the Food and Agriculture Organization's publication World Festival of Trees, and a resolution of the United Nations in 1954: " The Conference, recognising the need of arousing mass consciousness of the aesthetic, physical and economic value of trees, recommends a World Festival of Trees to be celebrated annually in each member country on a date suited to local conditions "; it has been adopted by the Netherlands.

) Hilton also claims a Roman Catholic monarch would therefore be unable to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and points to the examples of European states that have similar religious provisions for their monarchs: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, whose constitutions compel their monarchs to be Lutherans, the Netherlands, the constitution of which insists its monarchs be members of the Protestant House of Orange, and Belgium, which has a constitution that provides for the succession to be through Roman Catholic houses.

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.

Altdorfer's figures are invariably the complement of his romantic landscapes ; for them he borrowed Albrecht Dürer's inventive iconography, but the panoramic setting is personal and has nothing to do with the fantasy landscapes of the Netherlands A Susanna in the Bath and the Stoning of the Elders ( 1526 ) set outside an Italianate skyscraper of a palace shows his interest in architecture.

In the Netherlands, the company TNO has designed Bioaerosol Single Particle Recognition eQuipment ( BiosparQ ).

The Netherlands has been most advanced in adopting a census using administrative data.

The Royal Netherlands Air Force has adopted the English spelling of commodore for an equivalent rank.

This optional protocol has been ratified by all EU states except five ( namely Belgium, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and United Kingdom ).

The Netherlands has hosted an annual domino toppling exhibition called Domino Day since 1986.

In the Netherlands and Belgium, where euthanasia has been legalized, it still remains homicide although it is not prosecuted and not punishable if the perpetrator ( the doctor ) meets certain legal exceptions.

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 ".

A 13 year long observation performed by the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, on 120, 000 subjects between 55 and 70, has shown that increased intake of acrylamide ( formed when potatoes are baked or fried ) is correlated with a 60 % higher rate of kidney cancer.

In the Netherlands Fox News has been carried by cable providers UPC and CASEMA and satellite provider Canaldigitaal ; all have dropped the channel in recent years.

The phenomenon has spread to other European countries such as France, the Netherlands, and Sweden.

The Netherlands has introduced a new system of health care insurance based on risk equalization through a risk equalization pool.

On 3 July 2005, the country became the first country in the world to give full marriage and adoption rights to homosexual couples ( Belgium has allowed same-sex marriage since 2003 and co-parenting since April 2006, and the Netherlands has allowed same-sex marriage since 2001 and now has a law in preparation to provide full adoption rights in equal conditions to opposite-sex marriages ).

Initially a musician who achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, he has been called " the Netherlands ' greatest and only rock ' n ' roll star ," later in life he became a well-known painter.

The concentration of broadcasters in Hilversum has given it its enduring status as the media city for The Netherlands.

For example, a dedication has been found as far away as Woerden ( Netherlands ).

In 2009, Sweden's largest television station, SVT, revealed that IKEA's money — the three per cent collection from each store — does not actually go to a charitable foundation in the Netherlands, as IKEA has said.

This has led to some national policies such as fuel and emission taxes for domestic air travel in the Netherlands and Norway, respectively.

The tour has also traveled to Australia several times, Aarhus University in Denmark in April 2009, Italy and The Netherlands.