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De forente Nederlandene
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Norwegian Bokmål
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thumb|A flag used by the Dutch Republic.
thumb|The Dutch Republic in 1789.
thumb|The Binnenhof in The Hague, the republic's seat of government.
Etymology
Probably a nb da De Forenede Nederlande the United Netherlands 1, itself modelled on Dutch nl de Verenigde Nederlanden the United Netherlands.
nb de forente Nederlandene the united the Low Countries, literally “the United Low Countries”.
Parallel calques include nn Dei sameinte Nederlanda, da De Forenede Nederlande, sv Förenade Nederländerna and de Vereinigte Niederlande United Netherlands.
Pronunciation
nb /diː ¹fɔˈreːn.tə ²ˈneː.dərˌlanː.ən.ə/ [diː fɔˈɾèːn.tə̌ ˈnêː.də.ˌɭɑnː.ən.ə̌]
nb eːdərlanːənə 9
nb De for en te Ne der lan de ne
Proper noun
nb proper noun De forente Nederlandene
Dutch Republic; nb former country cont/Europe, a federal republic of seven northern provinces of the Low Countries from the late 16th century until 1795, with The Hague as its seat of government.
nb På 1600-tallet var De forente Nederlandene en av Europas ledende sjøfarts- og handelsmakter. In the 17th century, the Dutch Republic was one of Europe's leading maritime and trading powers.
nb 2004 Karsten Alnæs Besettelse: Historien om Europa, bind II en koalisjon av England, Østerrike, de forente Nederlandene, Sverige, Spania, Savoie og flere tyske stater satte en stopper for [kong Ludvig XIVs drømmer] om å beherske Europa a coalition of England, Austria, the United Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Savoy and several German states put an end to King Louis XIV's dreams of dominating Europe
Usage notes
Språkrådet lists De forente Nederlandene as the standard Bokmål historical name.
The fuller formal Norwegian name is De sju forente Nederlandene (“the Seven United Netherlands”); the Dutch name was Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden (“Republic of the Seven United Netherlands”).
The republic had no official capital. The Staten-Generaal met permanently in The Hague, which functioned as its seat of government.
The republic was often called nb Holland, although Holland was formally only one of its seven constituent provinces.
Related terms
nb nederlender Dutch person
nb nederlandsk Dutch
nb Nederlandene the Low Countries
See also
References
“Historiske navn” at Språkrådet.
“Holland” in Store norske leksikon.
“Nederlands historie” in Store norske leksikon.
“Staten-Generaal” in Store norske leksikon.
“De Forenede Nederlande” in Lex – Danmarks Nationalleksikon.