Amsterdam (; ) is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands.

Geographically, Aachen is the westernmost city of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, west of Cologne.

* 1815 – The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.

Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe ; but Ammianus in fact says that “ the Drasidae ( Druids ) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " ( Res Gestae 15. 9 ), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north ( Britain, the Netherlands or Germany ), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.

Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also referred to as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax ( after the legendary Greek hero ), is a professional football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands.

AZ (), an initialism for Alkmaar Zaanstreek, is an association football club from the city of Alkmaar, Netherlands.

It is unclear where Dürer travelled in the intervening period, though it is likely that he went to Frankfurt and the Netherlands.

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.

* The Andrej Sacharovweg is a street in Assen, Netherlands.

Dutch hip hop or Nederhop is hip hop music created by musicians in the Netherlands and Flanders.

A famous Dutch rapper outside the Netherlands is Salah Edin.

While some argued for the seat of government to move to Berlin, others advocated leaving it in Bonn — a situation roughly analogous to that of the Netherlands, where Amsterdam is the capital but The Hague is the seat of government.

This canoe is exhibited in the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands ; other very old dugout boats have been recovered.

The first option ( although it is debatable to what extent the Duke was committed to such an enterprise ) was a plan to transfer his forces from the Spanish Netherlands to northern Italy ; once there, he intended linking up with Prince Eugene in order to defeat the French and safeguard Savoy from being overrun.

A variation of bock called ' bokbier ' is also brewed extensively in the Netherlands and occasionally in Belgium.

English is a West Germanic language originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic settlers from various parts of what is now northwest Germany and the northern Netherlands.

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 one of the busiest railways in Europe, with 20 % more train services than France, 60 % more than Italy, and more than Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Portugal and Norway combined.

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

The only difference is that in the chorus, instead of singing " These are men, America's best ", they sing " These are men, The Netherlands ' best ".

Clobazam is widely used by specialist epilepsy clinics worldwide and clonazepam is popular in the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

In the Netherlands, conservatives merged into a new Christian democratic party in 1980.

* Centre Democrats ( Netherlands ), a former political party of the Netherlands

** The Politieke Partij Radicalen, Pacifistisch Socialistische Partij, Communistische Partij Nederland and the Evangelical People's Party amalgamate to form Netherlands political party GroenLinks ( GL, GreenLeft ).

* GreenLeft of the Netherlands: a political party that began 1989 as an electoral alliance comprising the Communist Party of the Netherlands, Pacifist Socialist Party and the Christian left parties Evangelical People's Party and Political Party of Radicals.

A one-time communist and former member of the social-democratic Labour Party, Fortuyn was elected " lijsttrekker " of the newly formed Livable Netherlands party by a large majority on 26 November 2001, prior to the Dutch general election of 2002.

Having been rejected by Livable Netherlands, Fortuyn founded his own party LPF ( Pim Fortuyn List ) on 11 February 2002.

Many Livable Netherlands supporters transferred their support to the new party.

The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (, VVD ), often referred to in the English language press as the Liberals or by its initials from its official Dutch name, is a conservative-liberal political party in the Netherlands.

The VVD supports private enterprise in the Netherlands and is an economically liberal party.

Mark Rutte, current party leader since 2006 and Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 2010.

The Labour Party (, PvdA ), is a social-democratic political party in the Netherlands.

Since the 2003 Dutch General Election, the PvdA has been the second largest political party in the Netherlands.

In the 2003 elections, Wouter Bos managed to regain almost all seats lost in the previous election, and the PvdA was once again the second largest party of the Netherlands, only slightly smaller than the CDA.

The Pim Fortuyn List (, LPF ) was a political party in the Netherlands.

The eponymous founder of the party was Pim Fortuyn, a charismatic former university professor and political columnist who initially had planned to contest the 2002 general election as leader of the Livable Netherlands ( LN ) party.

Although he was already in contact with the Livable Netherlands ( LN ) party, he initially also considered running for the CDA or creating his own list.

The 2002 general election proved a great success for the LPF, yielding 17 % of the votes and 26 seats in the House of Representatives — by far a record number of seats in the Netherlands for a new party — to become the second largest party.

Livable Netherlands (, LN ) was a Dutch political party.

* Christian Democratic Appeal, a political party of the Netherlands

* The Socialist Party ( SP ), in its first years a radical socialist / communist party, a Maoist split from the Communist Party Netherlands, is now a big socialist party, very conservative on economic issues and advocating more socialism, government control but at the same time taking more conservative positions on issues like integration and national identity than the PvdA, generally populist.