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.

Socially responsible banks founded out of anthroposophy in the English-speaking world include Triodos Bank, founded in 1980 and active in the UK, Netherlands and Spain, La Nef in France and RSF Social Finance in San Francisco.

A tribute band called the Brood Roosters (" bread toasters ") was active in the Netherlands until they split up in early 2009.

Another tribute band called Yada Yada is still active in The Netherlands, often appearing with original members of the Wild Romance ( Dany Lademacher, Ramon Rambeaux ).

The higher levels of the active ingredient in cannabis in Netherlands create a growing opposition to the traditional Dutch view of cannabis as a relatively innocent soft drug.

The Natural Law Party was reportedly active in 74 countries, including affiliates in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and United Kingdom.

Early hints of Chinoiserie appeared in the 17th century in nations with active East India companies: England ( the British East India Company ), Denmark ( the Danish East India Company ), the Netherlands ( the Dutch East India Company ) and France ( the French East India Company ).

The Flemish Primitives were a group of painters active primarily in the Southern Netherlands in the 15th and early 16th centuries ( for example, Van Eyck and van der Weyden ).

Colonialism in this sense refers to Western European countries ' colonization of lands mainly in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania ; the main European countries which were active in this form of colonization were Spain, Portugal, France, the Kingdom of England, the Netherlands, and from the 18th century Great Britain.

In addition to the " mass " producers of vibraphones, custom manufacturers, notably vanderPlas Percussion of The Netherlands, are also active.

In the Netherlands the active ingredients of khat, cathine and cathinone, are qualified as hard drugs and forbidden.

* Nieuwegein, Netherlands: This former NCR / AT & T / Lucent Technologies division known under the name WCND ( Wireless Communication Network Division ) was active in the development of Wi-Fi-technology and closed December 2004.

He eventually rose to the rank of Captain but retired from active service a year later when he was asked by the Catholic People's Party to serve on their behalf as State Secretary for Defence dealing with matters of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

The Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration is guided by a small core group of the most active Partners, supported by a Secretariat hosted by IUCN and by a Learning Network Facilitator hosted by Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation in the Netherlands and a Senior Forest Policy Advisor of the IUCN Toronto and the Environment Agency.

Brunssum was formerly a center of coal mining in the Netherlands and there are a few active mines remaining in the area.

During World War II, like many other towns in the Netherlands, the active working population of Maassluis was transferred to Germany for working in the war industry.

By this point, Napoleon had seized Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, establishing republics with constitutions in each, and Paul felt that Russia now needed to play an active role in Europe in order to overthrow what the republic had created and restore traditional authorities.

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.

In 1999 Wang Global, by then back up to $ 3. 5 billion in annual revenues, was acquired by Getronics of The Netherlands, a $ 1. 5 billion network services company active only in parts of Europe and Australia.

Bram Moolenaar ( born in 1961, in Lisse, province of Zuid-Holland, Netherlands ) is an active member of the open source software community.

Once there he allowed himself to be made the tool of the Tory ministry, whose policy was to carry on the war in the Netherlands while giving secret orders to Ormonde to take no active part in supporting their allies under Prince Eugene of Savoy.

During the mid-17th century the Dutch Navy was one of the most powerful navies in the world and it played an active role in the wars of the Dutch Republic and later those of the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Other active members include: Benjamin Bassin, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Juan Luis Cebrian, Orio Giarini, Talat Halman, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Javier Solana, Mugur Isărescu, Kamal Hossain, Esko Kalimo, Ashok Khosla, Martin Lees, Roberto Peccei, Maria Ramirez Ribes, Victor A. Sadovnichy, Keith Suter, Majid Tehranian, Raoul Weiler, and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Voices of Media Literacy, a project of the Center for Media Literacy representing first-person interviews with media literacy pioneers active prior to 1990 in English-speaking countries, provides historical context for the rise of the media literacy field and is available at http :// www. medialit. org / voices-media-literacy-international-pioneers-speak Media education is developing in Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, Canada, the United States, with a growing interest in the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, India, Russia and among many other nations.

Rocker became a member and founded a local section in Mainz, mostly active in distributing anarchist literature smuggled in from Belgium or the Netherlands in the city.