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Dutch
landscapes and other |
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Gallery
of the Netherlands. Click the picture to visit this growing database of pictures of Dutch landscapes, townviews, mill's and rivers. (Amateur) photographers daily provide this database of new photographs from all over the country. If you want to have your personal photo of any place in the Netherlands added to this database, just feel free to contact me |
Dutch
& Belgian news & info |
Site-description |
| Quality site to get -and stay- informed the best way about all things Dutch: news, hot from the press, culture, science, media, social issues, history and a lot more can be read and heard [live or at demand] at this site. | |
| Statistics
of the Netherlands from the leading Central Buro of Statistics. Neatly arranged
and easy accessable statistics about all you want to know. All results can
be printed out quite easily. From the welcome page: "Statline is the electronic databank of Statistics Netherlands. It contains statistical information on many social and economic subjects in the form of tables and graphs. All the information in StatLine may be consulted, printed and downloaded free of charge. In addition to the search function with key words (Hypersearch) you can use the Webselector to select a publication from StatLine." [I noticed though, that not all browsers displayed the site identical and some browsers even crashed (Explorer) or gave Java errors (Safari). I had the best results with Netscape.] |
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| Up-to-date facts about the Netherlands: government, geography, population, politics, economy, transportation, military and transnational issues. Option to compare with other countries. Printable. Maps added.[this link opens the Netherlands page; the Belgium page - as any other country- can be opened from here] A very nicely designed alternative is the BBC Country-profile site: personally I prefer this one due to some more options and external links and design. | |
| Great
site, rich of information on: History, Mystics & Writers, Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Musicians and Scientists. The perfect way to get a quick but good impression of Flanders /Belgium |
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| The best up-to-date site to find all the municipalities and place-names of the Netherlands | |
| History
o.t. Netherlands and Belgium |
Site-description |
| Very solid website about the history and development of the Low Countries: Belgium and the Netherlands. Starts at the period of the Burgundian area and stops in 1919. Perspicuous, highly enlightning text supported by good maps. Best site to start with if you want a good overview . At this moment Under Construction | |
| Great,educated site providing a thorouhg and indepth history of the Netherlands, starting in the middle ages. The site is clearly structured and offering lots of extra resources and external links. The maps are fantastic and I can highly recommend their page, offering a Historical Atlas of the Netherlands. | |
| From the same maker as the site above. Same comments! And, like I said above: do visit their page offering the Historical Atlas of Belgium! | |
Het Geheugen van Nederland (The Memory of the Netherlands) |
Wonderful site, production of the National Library of the Netherlands. Shockfull of old photographs, posters, paintings and texts: the Dutch past digitized! Project of the 'Memory of the Netherlands' site |
| Cartography |
Site-description |
| From
the makers: |
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really fantastic interactive, highly zoomable site to find all Dutch municipalities,
including the municipalities as they were in 1832. BUT... it's all in Dutch, and, it has tons of options I even don't know yet. I list the site anyway because of it's immense value for the lovers of topography and genealogist,trying to find the street/house or meadow of their Dutch ancestor. [For some basic words, used on this site click here] |
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| Wonderful, conveniently arranged,site with large historical maps of Europe among which you can find lots of maps of the Dutch and Belgian provinces/regions. All these maps are extremely well detailed and genealogist searching the birthplace of their ancestors will find here any small village, hamlet they're looking for easily. The maps date from 1635 and later. | |
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Dialects
and regional languages in the Netherlands, Luxembourg & Belgium |
Site-description |
| Very nice and clean designed site presenting a good overview concerning the five regional languages, Limburgish, Low Saxon, Zeelandish, Frisian and Brabantish, including lingual maps. Most maps are in Dutch but sometimes quite self-explanatory | |
| Extremely detailed map of the Low Saxon area of the Netherlands, presenting all dialects of this area. To view and scroll through this map you do need to have Flash Player plugin installed. | |
| This
site is diving deep into all the 'Lowland' languages [see definition, as
presented on the site, below] and dialects. "Lowlands languages" are those Germanic languages that developed in the “Lowlands": the low-lying areas adjacent to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. These are primarily Dutch, Zeelandic (Zeeuws, West Flemish), Frisian, Limburgish and Low Saxon (Low German). Also included are those languages that descended from autochtonous Lowlands languages and are used elsewhere; for example, Afrikaans, Lowlands-based emigrant languages, pidgins and creoles, and also English and Scots. |
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| Fantastic zoomable map of the Lowlands area. To view and scroll through this map you do need to have Flash Player plugin installed. | |
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Best documented
and educated site I can find on the web when it comes to the history of
the Dutch language. Great overviews, convenient links and absolutely clearly
structured. |
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Genealogy.
About names |
Site-description |
| Educated
site with -a.o.- a large, searchable database of Dutch surnamest. For found
names, name-records and bibliographical references are given. There's also
a list showing the quantity of namesakes and the distribution per province
according to the census taken in 1947. [The Meertens Institute, established in 1926, has been a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, KNAW ) since 1952.] |
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| Genealogical
Search Program of the State Archives (National Archive/ARA) You will need
to register but all services are free. Civil- and Church Records can be
searched in an easy way. |
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| Religon
in the Netherlands and Belgium |
Site-description |
| Very good overview about the Reformation in the Netherlands. Part of the 'Reformed Online' site which is presenting a well-designed, thorough concept of the basic course "History and Theology of the Reformed Church" | |
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Dutch
and Flemish Art |
Site-description |
| CODART is a worldwide network of museum curators of Dutch and Flemish art. The CODART directory is the best guide to Dutch and Flemish art on the Internet: find any Dutch or Flemish artist and view masterpieces in high quality. Stay informed about exhibitions all over the world | |
| New
Netherland |
Site-description |
| For Americans and anyone else interested this map is showing complete New Netherland with all names of villages, creeks, kills and regions clearly depicted. I have photographed parts of the original map to allow maximum readability. If you want to find old dutch names of New Netherland you should first visit this page | |
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Landelijk
niveau |
Country level |
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Provinciaal
niveau |
Provincial level |
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Gemeentelijk
niveau/ Gemeente |
Municipal level/ Municipality |
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Straat
niveau |
Street level |
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Verklein
[verb/imp]/ Vergroot [verb/imp] |
Scale down/ Magnify, enlarge |
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Kaart |
Map |
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Zichtbare
kaart |
The map presented at this page |
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Grens/Grenzen |
Border/Borders |
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Gemeentegrenzen |
Municipal borders |
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Overzichtskaart/Detailkaart |
Outline map/ Detailed map |
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Tonen
[verb]/ Toon [imp] |
To show/ Show |
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Link
naar... |
Link to... |
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Zoeken
[verb]/Zoek [imp] |
To search/ Search |
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Gevonden
[verb] |
Found |
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Onderwerp(en) |
Subject(s) |
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Ja/Nee |
Yes/No |
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Nieuws |
News |
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Perceelnummer |
Lot number |
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Kadaster |
Land registry |
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Kadastraal/Kadastrale |
Cadastral |
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Naam |
Name |
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Volledig |
Complete/full [at this site: show the complete map of the actual visible map-detail] |
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Pagina
/ Titelpagina |
Page / Title-page |
