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Place nameNetherlands
Other namesKoninkrijk der Nederlanden, Nederland, Netherlands, The, The Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Niederlande, Pays-Bas, Royaume des Pays-Bas, Países Bajos, Países Baixos, Paesi Bassi, Holland, Holanda, Olanda, NLD, NL, ISO528, NL00, Batavian Republic, United Provinces, United Provinces of the Netherlands, Dutch Republic, United Netherlands, Netherlands, United, Frisia, Dutch, Netherlandish, Hollandish, Netherlandic, Netherlandian
Latitude52.5
Longitude5.75
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
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Area was inhabited by Celtic and Germanic tribes; Romans invaded 1st century BCE; Germanic tribes invaded 5th century; ruled by Frankish Merovingians and Charlemagne; part of medieval Lotharingia; province of Spanish Hapsburgs; colonized extensively in the 17th century; official language is Dutch.
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