Great privilege. The Eighty Years' War. Federal Republic. Reclamation business. East India Company's diplomacy with Japan. Kingdom of the Netherlands. Pillarized society. Benelux. Dutch Model When mentioning the Netherlands, most people will think of wooden shoes, windmills, tulips, or the well-known advanced and good public security of the Netherlands. But how did the Netherlands come to be? What kind of country is it? The Netherlands (Nederland) originally means "low-lying country". Most of its land is less than 200 meters above sea level, and it has coexisted with floods since ancient times. The windmills we know are designed to cope with floods and increase the area of cultivated land.
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