Disputes arose between the Dutch and the English.

The Dutch were nonetheless disturbed.

On the contrary, the Dutch pride themselves on their openness and hospitality to foreigners.

But if these allegations are true, no one has told the Dutch.

With the East India Company, England also competed with the Dutch and French in the East.

One US television station even apologized to a Dutch reporter in the name of the American people.

Educational standard of the Dutch population aged 15 64 (by ethnic background and age)

1662 Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning, which rules until 1683.

The first mosque in Australia was built in 1861 at Marree, South Australia.

The Cakraningrats agreed to help the Dutch quash the 1740 rebellion in Central Java after the Chinese massacre in 1740.

These include schoolchildren and teachers, top managers, ethnic minority Dutch nationals, employers and employees.

A handful of right wing Dutch dreamers care, too, for they have visions of uniting Belgian Flanders with the Dutch motherland.

The committee officially started its activities in September 2007 after announcing its foundation to the Dutch public in a broadcast on Radio 1 on 2 May 2007.

Dutch West India Company (, or ) was a chartered company (known as the WIC ) of Dutch merchants.

On 21 June they anchored between Cloven Cliff and Vogelsang, where they set up a post with the arms of the Dutch upon it.

In 1602 the Dutch established the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and became the dominant European power.

For example, Charles II, King of England and Scotland, informed Scottish judges in 1673 that war with the Dutch certainly voided the treaty of Breda.

Non committal multiculturalism has long kept the conservatism of Dutch Moroccans and Dutch Turks hidden from the public eye.

After four years of siege by the Dutch and the death of Nathaniel Courthope in an attack in 1620, the English and their local allies departed the island.

Still, an overwhelming majority of German (and possibly Dutch and Finnish) economists seem to favor keeping the ECB on the sidelines in the eurozone crisis.

It was discovered in the 10th century by the Arabs and was first named Dina Harobi, but the first permanent settlement was by the Dutch in 1638.

Recently they had forced the Dutch organizers of an exhibition celebrating 400 years of relations between Morocco and the Netherlands to modify their catalogue to reflect Morocco's version of a map of the area.

Problem drinking affects 15 of the male Dutch population and 3 of Dutch women.

It is true that the Dutch, proud and comfortable inside their narrow borders, have, like the Swiss, often viewed the outside world with a degree of smugness.

More Dutch people turned out in the streets of Amsterdam for a night and day of celebration than when the country was actually liberated in May, 1945.

The reason the Dutch are wary of carrying on in Afghanistan is not the trauma of World War II, but of a small town in Bosnia called Srebrenica.

France regained Cape Breton Island, lost during the war, while it returned the captured city of Madras in India to Great Britain and gave up the Barrier towns to the Dutch.

The Dutch were nonetheless disturbed. Some in the country s parliament even asked whether the foreign minister should lodge a complaint in Washington.

Faten Refugees Welcome Amsterdam started with two Moroccan Dutch guys who proposed the idea, and showed up at Central. We heard about it, and then there were 10 to 15 of us coordinating logistics and connecting with officials.

Although Christopher Columbus sighted Guyana during his third voyage (in 1498), the Dutch were the first to establish colonies Essequibo (1616), Berbice (1627), and Demerara (1752).

New York was inhabited by various tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian speaking Native Americans at the time Dutch settlers moved into the region in the early 17th century.

And then I always finish off by talking about the thing that amazes me the most about this question, particularly coming from the Dutch, is that the Netherlands is every bit as manufactured as Disneyland.

The region was largely left alone during the colonial period, as the Dutch that controlled Suriname were fearful of the Portuguese in Brazil, and it was not until the 20th century that development projects began.

The area changed hands often between the English and Dutch but it was in Dutch hands again in 1667 and under Dutch rule from 1815 until the independence of Suriname in 1975.

Given Dutch and French voters rejection of the EU s constitutional treaty in 2005, and European citizens increasing frustration with the Union and its crisis management, the outcome would be highly uncertain.

She was betrayed by her own former ally, Rita Verdonk, and a variety of Dutch xenophobes, who don t like an outspoken black female immigrant from Somalia any more than they like Muslims.

the Weapons and Ammunition Act the Import and Export Act 1962 the Strategic Goods (Import and Export) Decree the Decree on the Issue of Declarations for Strategic Goods, which forms the basis for International Import Certificates and Delivery Verification Certificates the Strategic Goods (Financial Transactions) Decree 1996, which requires a licence for Dutch legal or natural persons financially involved in the trade of strategic goods that are in transit or otherwise outside the EU

It is incomprehensible that their clients are not prosecuted for rape, but Dutch politicians argue that it cannot be established whether or not a prostitute works voluntarily.

Dutch and British forces came upon the islands in the 17th and 18th centuries, but it was the French who were the first Europeans to settle in the territory, with the arrival of French missionaries in 1837, who converted the population to Roman Catholicism.

But, when teams lose, these stereotypical virtues are damned with equal conviction as characteristic defects German lack of imagination, Italian fear of attack, Dutch selfishness, the absence of national feeling among ethnic minorities in France, and so on.

But players, too, sometimes have failed to conceal national animosities when Holland beat Germany in a memorable European semi final in 1988, one of the Dutch players ostentatiously wiped his bottom with a German shirt.

In 1588, Philip II of Spain sent the Spanish Armada against England to end English support for Dutch rebels, to stop English corsair activity and to depose the Protestant Elizabeth I and restore Catholicism to England.

Today, Holland proper is the region where the original dialects are least spoken, in many areas having been completely replaced by standard Dutch, and the Randstad has the largest influence on the developments of the standard language with the exception of the Dutch spoken in Belgium.

And the emotions in this case betray an element of Schadenfreude look at how even the Dutch, always boasting of their superior tolerance and liberalism, have responded like cowards when their principles are truly tested.

Thus, one should pay tribute to the resilience of Dutch Muslims as they resist the provocations of the right wing politician Geert Wilders, who is bent on releasing a film that can only inflame public prejudice against Islam.