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Há 3 dias · Netherlands, country located in northwestern Europe, also known as Holland. “Netherlands” means low-lying country; the name Holland (from Houtland, or “Wooded Land”) was originally given to one of the medieval cores of what later became the modern state and is still used for 2 of its 12 provinces (Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland).
- Transportation and Telecommunications
Netherlands - Rail, Road, Air: In the Netherlands...
- People
Netherlands - Dutch, Multicultural, Diverse: Popular belief...
- Political Process
Netherlands - Politics, Constitution, Government: The Second...
- History
Netherlands - Dutch, Low Countries, Golden Age: This section...
- Cultural Life
Netherlands - Art, Cuisine, Windmills: The cultural life of...
- Dikes, Lakes, Reclamation
The four polders reclaimed from the IJsselmeer increased the...
- Dam, Netherlands
…km) long, known as the Afsluitdijk (“Enclosing Dam”), was...
- New Waterway
In Rhine River: Physiography. Since 1872, however, the New...
- Transportation and Telecommunications
Há 3 dias · Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west.
Há 1 dia · Europe, second smallest of the world’s continents, composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia (the great landmass that it shares with Asia). It occupies nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s total land area. The long processes of history marked it off as the home of a distinctive civilization.
1 de mai. de 2024 · Belgium, country of northwestern Europe. It is one of the smallest and most densely populated European countries, and it has been, since its independence in 1830, a representative democracy headed by a hereditary constitutional monarch. Initially, Belgium had a unitary form of government.
Há 4 dias · History of Europe. Europe by cartographer Abraham Ortelius in 1595. The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500).
Há 2 dias · Norway, country of northern Europe that occupies the western half of the Scandinavian peninsula. About two-thirds of Norway is mountainous, and its coastline is indented by deep glacial fjords. Offshore it includes some 50,000 islands. The capital is Oslo.
Há 4 dias · Ireland, country of western Europe occupying five-sixths of the westernmost major island of the British Isles. The country is noted for a rich heritage of culture and tradition that was linked initially to the Gaelic language.
