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The Kingdom of the Netherlands, commonly known simply as the Netherlands, is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united under the monarch of the Netherlands, who fu
Historic Area of Willemstad, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, the reigning monarch of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and his wife Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (2013)
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands is the unofficial but common historiographical name for the Kingdom of the Netherlands as it existed from 1815 to 1839. The United Netherlands was created in the
William I in March 1815 as King of the Belgians and Grand Duke of Luxembourg on a bronze medal by Michaut, obverse.
On the back of this medal commemorating the unification of the Low Countries: Belgium and the Netherlands shake hands.
King William I
Dutch troops in the Flemish city of Dendermonde in 1820