Yeah, 80% of flowers and 95% of tulips are imported from the Netherlands; it is crazy. For food, we are the second largest exporter, behind the USA. The reclaimed land is flat, and its soil is very fertile. Add to that the idea that we approach everything as technology, including farming, and it is easier to understand how we became this dominant, despite being such a small country.
I really recommend the video by history uncovered about Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter, who beat both the French and English in a few of the largest battles of the age of sail
The Flevopolders were reclaimed from the lake IJsselmeer, which is fresh water. It used to be part of the North sea, but as it was cut off from the sea bij the 'afsluitdijk' (closure dyke) in 1932 it turned into fresh water over time because of the IJssel, a branch of the river rhine, flows into it.
@@lemoncurdcake I can understand that from your point of view, especially when your name is 'Oosterzee'. But now fresh water from the IJsselmeer can be used when in times of extreme drought
@@lemoncurdcake Zeeland isn't in the centre of the Netherlands, so it would took a lot more effort to distribute that fresh water to the rest of the Netherlands in comparison to the IJsselmeer.
@@BuchanvanVeen that is totally true but its still sad. I loved sailing and swimming at the IJsselmeer but it would have been nicer if it was still salt
I love how you asked "what's korfball?" It's a form of hand thrown ball sport. It looks a lot like basketball and volleyball in a way. Korfball is a sport where you literally *need* your team 100% you don't have best teammates as you need everyone's participants. It's where you toss, run, dunk and throw the ball in the korf. A kort is a hard form of a net. It's a beautiful sport
13:03 The first Submarine made in the US was the Turtle in 1775. The first ever submarine made was by The Netherlands around 1620 - 1624, though the plans to make one were made back in 1578 by a British mathematician. 14:09 Shell was formed in 1907 through the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company of the United Kingdom. Which means it was part Dutch and part British. Since the first of January 2022 Shell left The Netherlands and is now officially a British company 18:09 The exact percentage I'm not sure of, but it's roughly between 60% and 80% of all flowers - yes flowers, not just tulips - that came from The Netherlands 19:04 No, not soft wieners xD, soft drugs 20:58 Mentioned this in my comment under your first video, but the Dutch translation would be "Dit is niet Disneyland" which sounds nearly identical to the English version 21:17 There is a Disneyland in France called Disneyland Paris 21:41 Wanted to note here that they misspelled the word "Gezellig" as "Gezzelig"
@@wimkeizers1689 That's not the proper translation, since there is none for "Gezellig". It's a feeling of coziness and enjoyment, but there's no word for it. Also it's "Cozy" :p
12:40 The water surrounding the Flevo polder turned into sweet water because of the afsluitdijk, a 32km long dike. Which prevented the salinization of the soil. 14:05 Shell was formed by combining the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and the UK based transport and trading company, also named shell. Another big company is ASML, a chip manufacturer worth around 190 billion USD. 15:10 I actually looked this up because I wasn't too sure. If the VOC would be worth 7.8 trillion USD, apple is worth 2.4 trillion according to Google's market summary. 18:12 80% of all flower bulbs worldwide, yeah. Not just tulips. I was surprised too. 21:43 I laughed so hard when I saw the misspelling of Gezellig (Here: Gezzelig).
The Dutch auctions provide about 60% of all global floriculture trading volume, while the Netherlands itself is the world's largest flower exporter by value, accounting for about 34% of the world's total flower exports every year.25 feb. 2020
It is so high because it only takes exports into account and not produce for internal markets. Also if you import flowers from abroad and then export them again for a higher value it will add in your favour.
True. I work for one of the biggest export companies and today the auctioning system (the way growers sell their flowers to the export companies) was down for several hours which will lead to florists and event planners all over the globe having a big lack of product. We're key in the supply chain and when you take us out of that chain shit will fall apart within a day. Crazy to think we can be that big of a player in any bussiness really.
Not entirely true, these days most flowers are grown now in Africa, by…. Ok, I admit, by the Dutch, the auction houses are the biggest in the world and about 90% of the flowers in the world are going through those auctions.
@7:20 "Does Denmark have a good hockeyteam?" If you were talking about The Netherlands and field hockey, the Dutch national women's hockeyteam is the reigning world champion, has been the last three times and has 9 world titles since 1974. Although far from as successful, the men's team are not that bad either ;)
The area I lived in Rotterdam had people from 138 nationalities with the native Dutch being the largest minority at 30% of it all. I think you'll be hard pressed to find any place in the US with such diversity on such a small area with people living in good harmony. Those foreigners you saw were not all tourist.
Rotterdam get's a fair number of tourists but not nearly as much as Amsterdam. Funnily enough the groups of tourists often stand-out because their almost all from the same ethnic group. An average crowd of Rotterdam locals is just about always very multi-ethic, that's how we do in the most ethic diverse city in The Netherlands. :)
@CAPTAIN HOOK Dude... they are the #1 and #2 largests cities in the country by population (by a good margin). And especially Amsterdam is a tourist magnet and tourist are always followed by petty crime (pick-pockets, scammers, etc.). Anywayz the facts are that Rotterdam happens to hold 4th place (2021) in crime, Maastricht is actually 2nd (tourists again probably). Furthernore most crime is actually still done by criminals (to criminals). You really think different ethnic groups are running around the streets beating and killing each other in these cities!? And that wouldn't be on the news everyday? What part of the country do live in that has made you so jaded!? By your logic Maastricht (21st in population, 17th in ethic population) is an ethnic-on-ethnic violence and crime ridden cesspool, while Rotterdam with 70% ethnic (most in the country by far) and 2nd in population is doing quite well with it's 4th place.
@CAPTAIN HOOK So now it flying bullets not ethnic groups... you don't seem to have an opinion on the number 2 Maastricht. And did I say only petty crimes? They also blow up atm's and sometimes people get killed. But petty crimes are the bulk and because of pickpockets, shoplifting and stealing (from tourists) those drive up the total number of crimes. Look up how many gun related crimes there were vs. pickpockets, shoplifting or scammers. And you seem to forget that The Netherlands is about 25% ethnic (14% non-Western). So the most crime by sheer numbers is by faaaaaaar still done by the 75% of native Dutch people in the country. There is no comparison...
I so agree with the medals thing at Olympics, Netherlands sometimes comes pretty close to the levels of the US, its amazing! Thanks for your commitment to this topic, I hope you will check out more history videos about the Netherlands! You know we will like it & support you, you amazing human being :)
Also yes, the dutch east india company is considered the highest valued company of all time. They even had the right to declare wars in their own name, have their own lands and armies. It was crazy, imagine Apple being able to wage war?? It was basically, one of the smartest ways to gain influence, have a company wage war instead of your country, and then when they needed help, they could be supported by the dutch provinces. While their money was gained through the stock market, the first stock market in history.
14:00 From Rotterdam to Tulcea (Romania) near the Black Sea. Since the opening of the 171 km long Rhine-Main-Danube Canal in 1992, the Rhine and Danube regions have been connected. This connects 16 European countries. For example, a 3500 km long sailing route for inland shipping has been created between the North Sea and the Black Sea.
Korfball is a mixed team sport , woman and men in one team .speed tactics and insight are key. Rules and regulations Equipment Korfball field diagram -en Korfball is played inside in winter and outdoors in spring, summer and autumn. The size of the indoor court is 20 m × 40 m (22 yd × 44 yd), as are most outdoor courts. The court is divided into halves called zones. In each zone is a 3.5 m (11 ft) tall post with a basket at the top. This is positioned two-thirds of the distance between the center line and the back of the zone.[2] The ball is very similar to the one used in association football, with a circumference of 68.0-70.5 cm (or a diameter of 21.75-22.45 cm), a weight of 445-475 grams, and a bounce height of 1.10-1.30 metres when dropped from a height of 1.80 metres. Team A korfball team consists of eight players: four female and four male.[7] Match Korfball match in the Netherlands An international korfball match typically consists of two halves or four periods, with the length varying depending on the competition. When the match consists of halves, the duration is typically 25 minutes, with periods typically between 7 and 10 minutes, with a one-minute break between the first and second periods and between the third and fourth periods. At half time the break is five or ten minutes.[7] Four players of each team are in one zone and the other four are in the other zone. Within each zone, a player may only defend a member of the opposite team of the same gender. At the beginning of the match, one team chooses a particular half of the court. That half will be that team's defending zone, with "their" basket in it. Players score by throwing the ball through the opposing team's basket. After two goals, the teams change zones: defenders become attackers and attackers become defenders. In between those zone-changes, attackers cannot set foot on their defending zone or vice versa. At half time the teams swap halves of the court. The rules prevent physical strength dominating the game. Blocking, tackling, and holding are not allowed, nor is kicking the ball. Once a player has the ball, that player cannot dribble or walk with it; however, the player can move one foot as long as the foot on which the player landed when catching the ball stays in the same spot. Therefore, tactical and efficient teamwork is required, because players need each other in order to keep the ball moving. A player may not attempt to score when defended, which occurs when the defender is in between the opponent and the basket, is facing his/her opponent, or is within arm's length and attempting to block the ball. This rule encourages fast movement while also limiting the impact of players' height compared to their opponents.
I am dutch too and I play korfball so I will explane what the sport is. It is a national sport that is similair to netball and basketball. You have two korfs (similair to baskets but then without the net). You can't walk with the ball, you need to throw the ball to someone else in order to score by throwing the ball through the korf. The field is devided in two sections as well as the team. In one section one half of your team tries to make a point and in the other section the other half of your team tries to prevent the other team from scoring. When you put your hand up in front of someone with the ball from the other team they are not allowd to score. Those are the basics of the sport and what I like about this sport is that you have teams with boys and girls combined and in the autumn and winter it is inside and in the spring and summer it is outside. I hope you learned from this.
They planted certain crops to desalinate the ground. The Dutch even invented a way to use salt water to grow plants and grow plants with as little water as possible. The WUR (Wageningen University & research, addition to a university, the organization consists of a number of independent research institutes of the Agricultural Research Service.
You doing great. You are showing real interest.. and the star town is Naarden And trying to read Dutch, for which I applaud you. Well done. Btw. It's gezellig, not gezzelig (21:47)
That 11 cities tour map shown is actually wrong, it starts with the wrong City, being Leeuwarden which is the capitol of the province. Tour goes as following: 1. Leeuwarden 2. Sneek (Almost the same as Snake if you want to pronounce it) 3. IJlst 4. Sloten 5. Stavoren 6. Hindelopen 7. Workum 8. Bolsward 9. Harlingen 10. Franeker 11. Dokkum (same route back as it's a turning point) 12. Leeuwarden (Bonkevaart, which is the name of the canal they arrive at) Salt water in a lake? We turned the Zuiderzee (south sea) into a lake long before that! (IJsselmeer) The onderzeeboot, or submarine as many call it, is a Dutch invention. So is the shotgun which is pretty much no more then the blunderbuss (Donderbuis in Dutch) and so many other things. Even a sniper rifle is technically speaking a Dutch invention, this from the 15th and 16th centuries. America, you have been lied to, or you think you are the best ignoring facts ;)
For those who want to know how the voc got so rich, bassicly the idea was: “hey if there are like 100 companies selling spices in the Netherlands it starts losing value because people sell it for cheaper.” So what they did was they all combined as 1 country so they could sell for more.
It's also fun to realise how safe the country is. It's quite common to send your kids outside to play with other kids, without parental guidance. And we send them to school on a bike when they know the traffic rules well
The 80-years war started as a revolt in 1568, saw the declartion of independence in 1581 and the formation of the Dutch Republic in 1568, it ended with the peace of Munster or peace of Westphalia together with the 30 years war. The 30-years war was basically a religious war, while the 80-years war was for independence because the Dutch wanted religious tolerance rather than a victorious religion. The last Olympics the Dutch beat the rest of continental Europe on medals. Most impressive though was probably the silver medal on the men's 4x400 meter because Track&Field is such a huge sport worldwide, and this was not the result of one accidental supertalent, but of a program to use the available talent. The cycling actually contributes more to other sports because it makes kids independent and they can practice most sports without help from their parents by cycling to training or matches in the evening.
@McJibbin, salt water doesnt infiltrate Flevoland, because there is no salt water there. A bit further up north, a huge barrier/dike was built between Friesland and North-Holland in the 1930's: The Afsluitdijk. This 20 mile long dike caused the water to the south to become fresh over time (due to river water pouring in). Flevoland was only constructed in the 1960's and thus in fresh water ;)
fun fact about a place i live near in the netherlands: most streets with the streetname "molen" have a windmill. a city named Bennekom has a street called molenstraat where there is no windmill. there was one before the second world war, but it blow up do to ammunition being either stored or made there by the germans in world war 2. that's the fun fact from me, have a nice day
Turkey isn't an arid country! In fact it is the only country in the Middle-East that has a fresh water surplus: both the Eufrate and Tigris rivers start from Turkey.
regarding salt water infiltration in the Flevopolder, not an issue, the inland sea known as the Ijsselmeer (Ijssel Lake) formerly southern sea was separated from the north sea by use of a dike,turning a salty sea into a fresh water lake
Ignoring the tough winds sometimes, a bike is a really great vehicle. Especially considering you can start of so young with it. Very handy as a student to get to school, next town over.
there is a movie about the elfstedentocht witch is based on a real elfstedentocht, where it had been cancelled due to the cold weather and the people still rode it out. multiple of them died to frostbite.
Cycling is life in the Netherlands. If you don't own a drivers licence and a car, next to public transport, it's a way to get from A to B. Then again, car parkings are expensive (there's not a lot of room), so most people use bikes and/or public transport.
13:54 To the Black sea by crossing the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Slovakia/Hungary border, Hungary, Croatia/Serbia border, Serbia, Serbia/Romania border and then finally Cross Romania to the border with Ukraine entering Black sea. Also at Germany you can go to Liechtenstein and Switzerland through the Rein. That's all routes for Small/Medium Cargo ships.
Gezellig* It basically means that there is a nice atmosphere in the room. Like quite the opposite of when people say read the room in a negative way. It's basically that feeling of when you're with friends or family laughing together at the dinner table or hanging together in front of the tv watching your favorite netflix shows together. That feeling, that vibe you get, that is what we call gezellig. And (at least to me) gezellig even sounds like a chill but funny word, precicely like its meaning, so gezellig the word is gezellig
korfbal is similar to basketball, but with an straw basket instead of a net, there are also a couple different rules and regulations, but in the end the goal is to put a ball in the other teams basket
love to see max verstappen in there, he won the F1 championships again this year due to already (3 months left in the championship) having enough points that noone can take the world championship title from him this year so hes basically 2022 f1 champion already
Korfbal is afaik a sport that originated in the Netherlands. Similar to basketball, but several different rules, no dribbling allowed at all, you can only throw the ball a few particular ways, and the teams are mixed gender.
To answer your question, yes The Dutch East Indian Company was bigger (worth more) then Apple is at this moment. It had/has the biggest company net worth ever.
80% of all flowers, yes. Also, second biggest agricultural exporter worldwide (after the US). Im personally pretty proud of that one, considering the size of the country. Korfball is sort of a oldfashioned version/alternative of basketball, with two fields/teams, one defending, one attacking. Also, it's a famously mixed sport. US had the first actual military use of submarines, not the first submarine, per se. (Leave it to Americans to weaponize shit.. XD) Flevoland was dyked and drained from the sea, but even though its former seafloor, it's not salted earth, since there's rivers draining into that inland sea (IJselmeer). Plus we built a dyke closing off the entire Ijselmeer first, so the whole place is pretty much fresh water now. Shell is a bit of a mixed bag. Shell used to be British, but only traded in oil and didnt drill it. It was the Dutch Petroleum Maatschappij (BPM) who did the drilling and at one point offered to join forces. They kept the English name, for both international use and brand recognition among customers. HQ has been in NL ever since then, though. The poor-people-eating-potato-painting thing you mentioned in the first vid was Rembrandt, by the way. HE was all about those dark, gloomy vides. Its why the 'Nachtwacht'painting is called (lit.) Nightwatch, even if it's not. Soft drugs (weed). And Prostitution. But yes, soft wieners are also legal here. Yes, we have castles. Those were office buildings in the vid, though. But yes, old country, so we definetly have castles. Also, your Dutch is actually pretty good for (I assume) a first-time reader!
Jumping from topic to topic by unfinished sentences had me smile the whole video through, loved watching it. The spelling in "gezzelig was wrong though, it`s "gezellig". Now tell me something about Turkey jankees. xD
Cool hearing you speak about rugby, and yes Conga, Samoa, Fuji and New Zealand (Named after the Dutch province of Zeeland btw) have amazing teams. Well worth watching any matches of them, but a personal favourite player of mine is Jonah Lomu from the NZ national team. This guy was build like a tank (1.96m/6'5" and 120kg/264.5lbs) but could run 100m in under 11s.
Those 2 polders were not the first, we did a lot of smaller parts long before that. The first big part was made for the making of the Afsluitdijk on the side of North-Holland, that was the try out, after that we made the two common known polders.
75% of ALL flowers in general come through the Netherlands. Not because we grow them, but ebcause they use our flowermarket/auction as a way to sell them worldiwide and then get exported from the Netherlands to thier country of destination :) and besides us being direct and honest with people in conversations, we also talk to anyone like they are our equals, even our bosses. Americans that come work here ( tbh even belgians ) in a leadership function have a hard time adapting since they are used to being on top. While here they get the opinion of their employee thrown in their faces if the employee thinks they know better due to experience or field of study. Some think it's rude while we think all people are created equal and it doesnt matter if you have a lower or higher function.
fun fact: those domes at 12:00 are going to be turned into a test charging station for the new water taxi's that are going to run on hydrogen gas power.
Hello... The reason we speak english with an american accent, is because we do not dub american tv shows. We subtitle. Accents are created, by copying what you hear. It is basicly intergrated in our language. We even have radio commercials in english.
lol... i like how whenever you want to say something, an avalanche of words in your brain collides right before the exit 🤣🤣🤣 (i got that too; it also can be very annoying, as it limits & reduces the message you want to get across🙃)
Like Yankees comes from Jan-Kees. There are some more. Dollar comes from the Daalder, old Dutch currency. Harlem comes from Haarlem an old Dutch city. Wallstreet was build by Dutch during the war against the English. There was an actual defence wall where now Wallstreet is situated. So yeah we Dutch had some influence on real Amereican things :)
The flower statistic is about all flowers so 80% of all flowers are exported from the Netherlands, BUT a good part of that are first imported to the Netherlands so that's just redistributing. However, most tulips are grown in the Netherlands, so I guess it's both.
Yoo! Nice vid. "Korfbal" is like basketball without a backboard and instead of hanging the ring is placed on top of a pole/mast. And also! The ring aka a "korf" is more like a wicker circular picnic-basket with the bottom and lid removed.
The water around the polder named Flevoland wasnt salt!There was a dike before that (afsluitdijk) who closed the water from the sea!The water that filled that lake came from de rivers.
13:54 That would be through the Rhine. Then through some other smaller rivers, it can connect to the Danube, which basically ends up on the other side of Europe. You could connect every country with rivers from Rotterdam
"Recht voor zijn raap", meaning "getting straight to the point". Us Dutchies are being seen as ruthless "straight to buniness"-people. Which is a common thing among native Dutch persons.
The Thirty Years war was occupied the last 30 years of the Eighty years War. Both were settled at the same conference, known as the Peace of Westphalia. Both wars are roughly about the same (Kings/Emperors forcing religion on areas/countries, trying to counter emerging Protestantism), but the Eighty years war is mostly between Netherlands/Belgium vs the Habsburg Empire and after the split of the Habsburg realm Spain. That's because the Habsburg branch that inherited the Netherlands was King there(and was he raised in his mother court, contrary to his father who was raised in the NL(well, Belgium nowadays) and Burgundy). The Thirty Years war has the same cause, but mostly in the German speaking parts (Germany/Austria) of the Habsburg Holy Roman Empire. The Netherlands were direct Habsburgs possessions contrary to Germany where they were (also) Emperor but with local royalty/nobility in between who also wanted a say in preferred religion matters.
Okay, I you go by a boat that is small but seaworthy, you can go from Rotterdam up the Maas, then Waal, Rhine and the Rhine-Danube Canal, Danube, Black Sea and up the Dnieper you might even get to connect to the Volga.
We got castled in the netherlands. A big one close to my home is the Muiderslot (tourists call it Amsterdam Castle, but it isnt in amsterdam at all, it is in Muiden) its a castle in fully intact state (after some reconstructions here and there) it has a very cool story about it being seiged once to kill the owner at the time (i think) Graaf Floris, he tried to escape by hopping in a big chest and being shipped off on a cart, but he got caught. (I think thats the story but its been a while)
It's fresh water that surrounds Flevoland there's a big ass dijk called afsluitdijk keeping the salt water on the northside and now fresh water to the south of it. Yes we have castle's and some palaces aswell. remember the following we are technically called The Kingdom of The Netherlands. what is a kingdom without a castle or palace
The star shaped castle youre asking of i think is called "Heusden" it was bombed in ww2, theres still ruïnes nowadays and some canons left from the period. A lot of buildings are really old still and it has lot of history, wich you can check out at the city hall. Hope you read it, cause i think most dutch pple dont know about the place and history of it tbh.
gezellig translates to cosy and thats right i am dutch and there are a lot of small towns where many people now each other and we are willing to help almost every one
On the subject of social diversity, and avoiding trying to make any unfair direct comparisons, we're pretty big on multiculturalism in the Netherlands as well. You alluded to the idea that the Netherlands is culturally pretty homogeneous, and while 'out back' there definitively exist towns and regions like that, the majority of us live in ethnically and culturally diverse urbanized areas. That said, I don't think this diversity is necessarily a good reason for social programs to fail, even if it can take a lot more sweat and tears to get all the systems meshed and fair for all. About the flower exports, that number is approximately correct, and isn't just about tulips, but *all* flowers. Haha, and don't worry too much about the "this isn't disney land!" thing, tourists are pretty easy to spot to locals, and we do like to hassle them a bit if they're dilly dallying on cycle paths, but I think the remark was about 50/50 in jest and as a heads up.
Im from Lelystad the capital of the province Flevoland and the water next to it is freshwater because the two lakes next to it markermeer and ijsselmeer are separated from the sea by the afsluitdijk and houtribdijk
What's the furthest you get into Europe by boat? Or ship? Boat: Basel Switzerland via Rhine river. But keep in mind there is a waterway for ships from rotterdam to the black sea, so smaller vessels can cross all of europe from the Netherlands to Romania, via Rhine-Main-Danube Canal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine%E2%80%93Main%E2%80%93Danube_Canal With bigger container ships, Hamburg via Elbe river, I'd guess.
2:48 Dutchie here, to prove we are very decent at speaking English. I think you meant to say that we are more ''fluent'' in English than other countries. At middle school we already have English as a obligated class, so you aren't allowed to pass school if you haven't passed the English exams. This continues when we go to study, I think you would call it college. Same here, English is in your final exam. And because of that, we have a multilingual percentage of 95% of all people in The Netherlands. Only the elderly people and immigrants have trouble speaking other languages, but almost all young and true Dutch people know how to communicate in English.
I'm not an expert but... interesting that you are talking about salt water seeping in. Although the IJsselmeer that surrounds Flevoland is a fresh water lake now, it is true in general that reclaimed land at the coastline needs a steady influx of fresh water to keep the salt water from seeping under the dikes. Luckily the Netherlands has a number of large rivers going through it that provide enough fresh water for this. So there is a delicate balance to be kept between how much fresh water comes into an area and how much water to pump out. Pumping out too much fresh water means that salt water will enter an area which causes problems for agriculture.
Korfbal literally means basket ball. It's basically the same game, but there is no dribbling and no backboard. Good job on reading that dutch. The ng is the same as in english, but every other g is the sound you make when you have something stuck in your throat. Ch is that same g sound, but becomes silent after an S in some cases. I realised how insane our language is after learning other languages.
Yeah, 80% of flowers and 95% of tulips are imported from the Netherlands; it is crazy. For food, we are the second largest exporter, behind the USA. The reclaimed land is flat, and its soil is very fertile. Add to that the idea that we approach everything as technology, including farming, and it is easier to understand how we became this dominant, despite being such a small country.
as another dutchman i do confirm and support this fact for being true and proven...
no farmers no food xD not..
Same here 🇳🇱🇳🇱
@@canine_coach its also the oppisite, no food no farmers
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The VOC was so big and rich that even Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft combined won't even come close.
apple is like a billion dollar company the voc was something like a 7.5 billion dollar company
@@daanschipper3500 Ja weet ik.
If compared to today's money, they'd be worth as much as the German and japanese economies combined 😅
In today's money the VOC would be worth 8 trillion dollar or 8 million million dollar
Yes
I really recommend the video by history uncovered about Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter, who beat both the French and English in a few of the largest battles of the age of sail
and one time he saild right in to the English fleet and stole their flagship
The Flevopolders were reclaimed from the lake IJsselmeer, which is fresh water. It used to be part of the North sea, but as it was cut off from the sea bij the 'afsluitdijk' (closure dyke) in 1932 it turned into fresh water over time because of the IJssel, a branch of the river rhine, flows into it.
still sad we dont have the zuiderzee anymore
@@lemoncurdcake I can understand that from your point of view, especially when your name is 'Oosterzee'. But now fresh water from the IJsselmeer can be used when in times of extreme drought
@@oldebarneveldt5326 we can also use the water from zeeland for that we also made that into fresh water
@@lemoncurdcake Zeeland isn't in the centre of the Netherlands, so it would took a lot more effort to distribute that fresh water to the rest of the Netherlands in comparison to the IJsselmeer.
@@BuchanvanVeen that is totally true but its still sad. I loved sailing and swimming at the IJsselmeer but it would have been nicer if it was still salt
always love it when english / american people try to pronounce the g as how we do :)
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The Dutch inventer Cornelis Drebbel invented the submarine, but the American David Bushnell designed a submarine that was first used in a war.
The Dutch submarine was meant to retrieve cargo from shipwreck I believe to have read somewhere.
Actually, there are is no evidence or even witnesses that David Bushnell actually used the submarine in action.
USA uses everything for war
Yea, buts that is not really good know. Even by Dutch people.
And even now in the legacy of guys like Jan van Oort we are exploring the stars and send stuff into space.
You can sail all the way to the black sea (using the rhine and danube rivers), from the port of Rotterdam!
I love how you asked "what's korfball?" It's a form of hand thrown ball sport. It looks a lot like basketball and volleyball in a way. Korfball is a sport where you literally *need* your team 100% you don't have best teammates as you need everyone's participants. It's where you toss, run, dunk and throw the ball in the korf. A kort is a hard form of a net. It's a beautiful sport
13:03 The first Submarine made in the US was the Turtle in 1775. The first ever submarine made was by The Netherlands around 1620 - 1624, though the plans to make one were made back in 1578 by a British mathematician.
14:09 Shell was formed in 1907 through the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company of the United Kingdom. Which means it was part Dutch and part British. Since the first of January 2022 Shell left The Netherlands and is now officially a British company
18:09 The exact percentage I'm not sure of, but it's roughly between 60% and 80% of all flowers - yes flowers, not just tulips - that came from The Netherlands
19:04 No, not soft wieners xD, soft drugs
20:58 Mentioned this in my comment under your first video, but the Dutch translation would be "Dit is niet Disneyland" which sounds nearly identical to the English version
21:17 There is a Disneyland in France called Disneyland Paris
21:41 Wanted to note here that they misspelled the word "Gezellig" as "Gezzelig"
Yeah but at 21:17 he was specifically talking about the uk
Sure "Royal Dutch Shell" is seen in the world as British.
"gezellig" means : cosy
@@wimkeizers1689 That's not the proper translation, since there is none for "Gezellig". It's a feeling of coziness and enjoyment, but there's no word for it.
Also it's "Cozy" :p
12:40 The water surrounding the Flevo polder turned into sweet water because of the afsluitdijk, a 32km long dike. Which prevented the salinization of the soil.
14:05 Shell was formed by combining the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and the UK based transport and trading company, also named shell. Another big company is ASML, a chip manufacturer worth around 190 billion USD.
15:10 I actually looked this up because I wasn't too sure. If the VOC would be worth 7.8 trillion USD, apple is worth 2.4 trillion according to Google's market summary.
18:12 80% of all flower bulbs worldwide, yeah. Not just tulips. I was surprised too.
21:43 I laughed so hard when I saw the misspelling of Gezellig (Here: Gezzelig).
The Dutch auctions provide about 60% of all global floriculture trading volume, while the Netherlands itself is the world's largest flower exporter by value, accounting for about 34% of the world's total flower exports every year.25 feb. 2020
It is so high because it only takes exports into account and not produce for internal markets. Also if you import flowers from abroad and then export them again for a higher value it will add in your favour.
True. I work for one of the biggest export companies and today the auctioning system (the way growers sell their flowers to the export companies) was down for several hours which will lead to florists and event planners all over the globe having a big lack of product. We're key in the supply chain and when you take us out of that chain shit will fall apart within a day. Crazy to think we can be that big of a player in any bussiness really.
Not entirely true, these days most flowers are grown now in Africa, by…. Ok, I admit, by the Dutch, the auction houses are the biggest in the world and about 90% of the flowers in the world are going through those auctions.
@7:20 "Does Denmark have a good hockeyteam?" If you were talking about The Netherlands and field hockey, the Dutch national women's hockeyteam is the reigning world champion, has been the last three times and has 9 world titles since 1974. Although far from as successful, the men's team are not that bad either ;)
Korfball is like basketball with no backwall to the nets and instead of nets its a short yellow cylinder, also no dribbling
The area I lived in Rotterdam had people from 138 nationalities with the native Dutch being the largest minority at 30% of it all. I think you'll be hard pressed to find any place in the US with such diversity on such a small area with people living in good harmony. Those foreigners you saw were not all tourist.
Actually, it's 170 different nationalities these days.
Rotterdam get's a fair number of tourists but not nearly as much as Amsterdam. Funnily enough the groups of tourists often stand-out because their almost all from the same ethnic group. An average crowd of Rotterdam locals is just about always very multi-ethic, that's how we do in the most ethic diverse city in The Netherlands. :)
@CAPTAIN HOOK Dude... they are the #1 and #2 largests cities in the country by population (by a good margin). And especially Amsterdam is a tourist magnet and tourist are always followed by petty crime (pick-pockets, scammers, etc.).
Anywayz the facts are that Rotterdam happens to hold 4th place (2021) in crime, Maastricht is actually 2nd (tourists again probably).
Furthernore most crime is actually still done by criminals (to criminals). You really think different ethnic groups are running around the streets beating and killing each other in these cities!? And that wouldn't be on the news everyday? What part of the country do live in that has made you so jaded!?
By your logic Maastricht (21st in population, 17th in ethic population) is an ethnic-on-ethnic violence and crime ridden cesspool, while Rotterdam with 70% ethnic (most in the country by far) and 2nd in population is doing quite well with it's 4th place.
@CAPTAIN HOOK So now it flying bullets not ethnic groups... you don't seem to have an opinion on the number 2 Maastricht.
And did I say only petty crimes? They also blow up atm's and sometimes people get killed. But petty crimes are the bulk and because of pickpockets, shoplifting and stealing (from tourists) those drive up the total number of crimes. Look up how many gun related crimes there were vs. pickpockets, shoplifting or scammers.
And you seem to forget that The Netherlands is about 25% ethnic (14% non-Western). So the most crime by sheer numbers is by faaaaaaar still done by the 75% of native Dutch people in the country. There is no comparison...
@CAPTAIN HOOK You are the one that brought the topic up tough?
I so agree with the medals thing at Olympics, Netherlands sometimes comes pretty close to the levels of the US, its amazing! Thanks for your commitment to this topic, I hope you will check out more history videos about the Netherlands! You know we will like it & support you, you amazing human being :)
Also yes, the dutch east india company is considered the highest valued company of all time. They even had the right to declare wars in their own name, have their own lands and armies. It was crazy, imagine Apple being able to wage war?? It was basically, one of the smartest ways to gain influence, have a company wage war instead of your country, and then when they needed help, they could be supported by the dutch provinces. While their money was gained through the stock market, the first stock market in history.
14:00 From Rotterdam to Tulcea (Romania) near the Black Sea. Since the opening of the 171 km long Rhine-Main-Danube Canal in 1992, the Rhine and Danube regions have been connected. This connects 16 European countries. For example, a 3500 km long sailing route for inland shipping has been created between the North Sea and the Black Sea.
I was gonna say to Hungary at least trough the Danube
Fun fact: Know what else the Dutch invented (only found this out days ago😉)? The artificial kidney machine. In 1943, by professor Willem Kolff
"What's the farthest you can get into Europe via a boat from Rotterdam?"
You can get all the way into the Black sea.
"What's the farthest you can get into Europe via a boat from Rotterdam?"
Yes.
Farthest? Why would someone travel from R to the Black Sea?
@@on-the-pitch-p3w why not?
If I remember correctly it was 90% tulips and 80% flower bulbs overall. Yea, sounds crazy much :)
We dutch people are very good at english, because we begin to learn it when we're very young. So English is kinda our second language.
And cartoons used to be subtitled instead of dubbed.
That really helped.
dont forget that dutch is a combination of english and germanic
Korfball is a mixed team sport , woman and men in one team .speed tactics and insight are key.
Rules and regulations
Equipment
Korfball field diagram -en
Korfball is played inside in winter and outdoors in spring, summer and autumn.
The size of the indoor court is 20 m × 40 m (22 yd × 44 yd), as are most outdoor courts. The court is divided into halves called zones. In each zone is a 3.5 m (11 ft) tall post with a basket at the top. This is positioned two-thirds of the distance between the center line and the back of the zone.[2]
The ball is very similar to the one used in association football, with a circumference of 68.0-70.5 cm (or a diameter of 21.75-22.45 cm), a weight of 445-475 grams, and a bounce height of 1.10-1.30 metres when dropped from a height of 1.80 metres.
Team
A korfball team consists of eight players: four female and four male.[7]
Match
Korfball match in the Netherlands
An international korfball match typically consists of two halves or four periods, with the length varying depending on the competition. When the match consists of halves, the duration is typically 25 minutes, with periods typically between 7 and 10 minutes, with a one-minute break between the first and second periods and between the third and fourth periods. At half time the break is five or ten minutes.[7]
Four players of each team are in one zone and the other four are in the other zone. Within each zone, a player may only defend a member of the opposite team of the same gender.
At the beginning of the match, one team chooses a particular half of the court. That half will be that team's defending zone, with "their" basket in it. Players score by throwing the ball through the opposing team's basket. After two goals, the teams change zones: defenders become attackers and attackers become defenders. In between those zone-changes, attackers cannot set foot on their defending zone or vice versa. At half time the teams swap halves of the court.
The rules prevent physical strength dominating the game. Blocking, tackling, and holding are not allowed, nor is kicking the ball.
Once a player has the ball, that player cannot dribble or walk with it; however, the player can move one foot as long as the foot on which the player landed when catching the ball stays in the same spot. Therefore, tactical and efficient teamwork is required, because players need each other in order to keep the ball moving.
A player may not attempt to score when defended, which occurs when the defender is in between the opponent and the basket, is facing his/her opponent, or is within arm's length and attempting to block the ball. This rule encourages fast movement while also limiting the impact of players' height compared to their opponents.
Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries are cultural diverse too. Maybe even more than the US
The best definition i ever found voor gezellig was just “good vibes”
"Go back to Disneyland "
🤣🤣🤣that's hilarious🤣🤣
Sounds exactly like a passive aggressive Hollander using his skills of being 'recht voor de raap' 😆
they wrote it wrong it's "gezellig" not "gezzelig" . also I like this video!!
Fun Fact: Amsterdam is currently home to 178 different nationalities/culture therefore making it the most multicultural city in the world
True!
You can navigate the river Rhine with big barges up to Basel in Switzerland.
And you can use canals to get to the Danube.
@@chubbymoth5810 Indeed. That way you can reach the Black Sea from the North Sea (read: Rotterdam) only using fresh water waterways.
Wow dat is dan geweldig gedaan door ons Nederlanders 😂 Toch maar mooi de Rijn binnengehaald! Toppie hoor. 🎉
I am dutch too and I play korfball so I will explane what the sport is. It is a national sport that is similair to netball and basketball. You have two korfs (similair to baskets but then without the net). You can't walk with the ball, you need to throw the ball to someone else in order to score by throwing the ball through the korf. The field is devided in two sections as well as the team. In one section one half of your team tries to make a point and in the other section the other half of your team tries to prevent the other team from scoring. When you put your hand up in front of someone with the ball from the other team they are not allowd to score. Those are the basics of the sport and what I like about this sport is that you have teams with boys and girls combined and in the autumn and winter it is inside and in the spring and summer it is outside. I hope you learned from this.
Hi I’m from The Netherlands and I’m a teaching assistent at a high school but I loved watching both videos about The Netherlands 🤗
Another fun fact, the declaration of independence was partially based on: "Het plakkaat van verlatinghe"!
They planted certain crops to desalinate the ground. The Dutch even invented a way to use salt water to grow plants and grow plants with as little water as possible. The WUR (Wageningen University & research, addition to a university, the organization consists of a number of independent research institutes of the Agricultural Research Service.
WUR/wageningen is honestly such a magical place. Its soo good, love it.
Belgium built the 1st submarine actually in 1621. 👍👍And holds the world record of submerged, because it has not come to the surface yet. 🤣🤣
You doing great. You are showing real interest.. and the star town is Naarden
And trying to read Dutch, for which I applaud you. Well done.
Btw. It's gezellig, not gezzelig (21:47)
That 11 cities tour map shown is actually wrong, it starts with the wrong City, being Leeuwarden which is the capitol of the province.
Tour goes as following:
1. Leeuwarden
2. Sneek (Almost the same as Snake if you want to pronounce it)
3. IJlst
4. Sloten
5. Stavoren
6. Hindelopen
7. Workum
8. Bolsward
9. Harlingen
10. Franeker
11. Dokkum (same route back as it's a turning point)
12. Leeuwarden (Bonkevaart, which is the name of the canal they arrive at)
Salt water in a lake?
We turned the Zuiderzee (south sea) into a lake long before that! (IJsselmeer)
The onderzeeboot, or submarine as many call it, is a Dutch invention.
So is the shotgun which is pretty much no more then the blunderbuss (Donderbuis in Dutch) and so many other things.
Even a sniper rifle is technically speaking a Dutch invention, this from the 15th and 16th centuries.
America, you have been lied to, or you think you are the best ignoring facts ;)
For those who want to know how the voc got so rich, bassicly the idea was: “hey if there are like 100 companies selling spices in the Netherlands it starts losing value because people sell it for cheaper.” So what they did was they all combined as 1 country so they could sell for more.
It's also fun to realise how safe the country is. It's quite common to send your kids outside to play with other kids, without parental guidance. And we send them to school on a bike when they know the traffic rules well
The 80-years war started as a revolt in 1568, saw the declartion of independence in 1581 and the formation of the Dutch Republic in 1568, it ended with the peace of Munster or peace of Westphalia together with the 30 years war. The 30-years war was basically a religious war, while the 80-years war was for independence because the Dutch wanted religious tolerance rather than a victorious religion.
The last Olympics the Dutch beat the rest of continental Europe on medals. Most impressive though was probably the silver medal on the men's 4x400 meter because Track&Field is such a huge sport worldwide, and this was not the result of one accidental supertalent, but of a program to use the available talent. The cycling actually contributes more to other sports because it makes kids independent and they can practice most sports without help from their parents by cycling to training or matches in the evening.
@McJibbin, salt water doesnt infiltrate Flevoland, because there is no salt water there. A bit further up north, a huge barrier/dike was built between Friesland and North-Holland in the 1930's: The Afsluitdijk. This 20 mile long dike caused the water to the south to become fresh over time (due to river water pouring in). Flevoland was only constructed in the 1960's and thus in fresh water ;)
fun fact about a place i live near in the netherlands:
most streets with the streetname "molen" have a windmill. a city named Bennekom has a street called molenstraat where there is no windmill. there was one before the second world war, but it blow up do to ammunition being either stored or made there by the germans in world war 2.
that's the fun fact from me, have a nice day
Turkey isn't an arid country! In fact it is the only country in the Middle-East that has a fresh water surplus: both the Eufrate and Tigris rivers start from Turkey.
It is Gezellig and not Gezzelig! Iike your channel a lot by the way! Greetings from a Dutchie
regarding salt water infiltration in the Flevopolder, not an issue, the inland sea known as the Ijsselmeer (Ijssel Lake) formerly southern sea was separated from the north sea by use of a dike,turning a salty sea into a fresh water lake
the VOC in today's money was bigger than Apple by quite a margin. Apple: 1,2T and VOC over 8T
If it ain't Dutch, it ain't much :D
Ignoring the tough winds sometimes, a bike is a really great vehicle. Especially considering you can start of so young with it.
Very handy as a student to get to school, next town over.
there is a movie about the elfstedentocht witch is based on a real elfstedentocht, where it had been cancelled due to the cold weather and the people still rode it out. multiple of them died to frostbite.
Cycling is life in the Netherlands.
If you don't own a drivers licence and a car, next to public transport, it's a way to get from A to B.
Then again, car parkings are expensive (there's not a lot of room), so most people use bikes and/or public transport.
The face you made when you discovered how much is actually Dutch still fills me with joy ;).
13:54 To the Black sea by crossing the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Slovakia/Hungary border, Hungary, Croatia/Serbia border, Serbia, Serbia/Romania border and then finally Cross Romania to the border with Ukraine entering Black sea. Also at Germany you can go to Liechtenstein and Switzerland through the Rein. That's all routes for Small/Medium Cargo ships.
Nou, nou dat hebben we dus mooi voor mekaar. 🎉 Knap dat we de Rijn zo gemaakt hebben! Dutch design.
The Netherlands export 50% of the world's flowers, and 80% of the world's tulips
The company is called Royal Dutch Shell for a reason!
Gezellig* It basically means that there is a nice atmosphere in the room. Like quite the opposite of when people say read the room in a negative way. It's basically that feeling of when you're with friends or family laughing together at the dinner table or hanging together in front of the tv watching your favorite netflix shows together. That feeling, that vibe you get, that is what we call gezellig. And (at least to me) gezellig even sounds like a chill but funny word, precicely like its meaning, so gezellig the word is gezellig
korfbal is similar to basketball, but with an straw basket instead of a net, there are also a couple different rules and regulations, but in the end the goal is to put a ball in the other teams basket
love to see max verstappen in there, he won the F1 championships again this year due to already (3 months left in the championship) having enough points that noone can take the world championship title from him this year so hes basically 2022 f1 champion already
Op naar de acht.
12:39 it's more brackish water, the "afsluitdijk" made the water less salty by only adding new fresh water.
They mean 80% of all kind of flowers. Not only Tulips, but also Roses and Hydrangea. But also other plants, trees and flower bulbs.
Yes-adjusted for inflation, the Dutch East India Company was-and is compared to modern share-bearing companies-the most valuable that has existed.
Korfbal is afaik a sport that originated in the Netherlands. Similar to basketball, but several different rules, no dribbling allowed at all, you can only throw the ball a few particular ways, and the teams are mixed gender.
To answer your question, yes The Dutch East Indian Company was bigger (worth more) then Apple is at this moment. It had/has the biggest company net worth ever.
8:35 korfbal is a sort of basketbal except it is not against a wall and it is a larger hoop (at least that is what i can remember about the korfbal)
80% of all flowers, yes. Also, second biggest agricultural exporter worldwide (after the US). Im personally pretty proud of that one, considering the size of the country.
Korfball is sort of a oldfashioned version/alternative of basketball, with two fields/teams, one defending, one attacking. Also, it's a famously mixed sport.
US had the first actual military use of submarines, not the first submarine, per se. (Leave it to Americans to weaponize shit.. XD)
Flevoland was dyked and drained from the sea, but even though its former seafloor, it's not salted earth, since there's rivers draining into that inland sea (IJselmeer). Plus we built a dyke closing off the entire Ijselmeer first, so the whole place is pretty much fresh water now.
Shell is a bit of a mixed bag. Shell used to be British, but only traded in oil and didnt drill it. It was the Dutch Petroleum Maatschappij (BPM) who did the drilling and at one point offered to join forces. They kept the English name, for both international use and brand recognition among customers. HQ has been in NL ever since then, though.
The poor-people-eating-potato-painting thing you mentioned in the first vid was Rembrandt, by the way. HE was all about those dark, gloomy vides. Its why the 'Nachtwacht'painting is called (lit.) Nightwatch, even if it's not.
Soft drugs (weed). And Prostitution. But yes, soft wieners are also legal here.
Yes, we have castles. Those were office buildings in the vid, though. But yes, old country, so we definetly have castles.
Also, your Dutch is actually pretty good for (I assume) a first-time reader!
Jumping from topic to topic by unfinished sentences had me smile the whole video through,
loved watching it.
The spelling in "gezzelig was wrong though, it`s "gezellig".
Now tell me something about Turkey jankees. xD
Dutch people have been called "blunt".
Which translates to "Recht voor z'n raap".
"Coming straight to business".
"Pause, pause, pause"
I like the way your brain works... i can very much relate lol
Cool hearing you speak about rugby, and yes Conga, Samoa, Fuji and New Zealand (Named after the Dutch province of Zeeland btw) have amazing teams. Well worth watching any matches of them, but a personal favourite player of mine is Jonah Lomu from the NZ national team. This guy was build like a tank (1.96m/6'5" and 120kg/264.5lbs) but could run 100m in under 11s.
Those 2 polders were not the first, we did a lot of smaller parts long before that. The first big part was made for the making of the Afsluitdijk on the side of North-Holland, that was the try out, after that we made the two common known polders.
Achtermeer, 1533
75% of ALL flowers in general come through the Netherlands. Not because we grow them, but ebcause they use our flowermarket/auction as a way to sell them worldiwide and then get exported from the Netherlands to thier country of destination :)
and besides us being direct and honest with people in conversations, we also talk to anyone like they are our equals, even our bosses.
Americans that come work here ( tbh even belgians ) in a leadership function have a hard time adapting since they are used to being on top. While here they get the opinion of their employee thrown in their faces if the employee thinks they know better due to experience or field of study. Some think it's rude while we think all people are created equal and it doesnt matter if you have a lower or higher function.
fun fact: those domes at 12:00 are going to be turned into a test charging station for the new water taxi's that are going to run on hydrogen gas power.
Hello... The reason we speak english with an american accent, is because we do not dub american tv shows. We subtitle. Accents are created, by copying what you hear. It is basicly intergrated in our language. We even have radio commercials in english.
for a fact the sea next to flevoland actually has been separated from the real sea for so long that the water isn't actually salt anymore.
lol... i like how whenever you want to say something, an avalanche of words in your brain collides right before the exit 🤣🤣🤣
(i got that too; it also can be very annoying, as it limits & reduces the message you want to get across🙃)
Its awfull. he cant even make a full sentence.
@@evastapaard7496 He should put it in writing.
@@mgc7199 everything is better than this.
More of a fun fact in terms of small boats we also dominate that market as like half of all of those are made here!
You pronounced these Dutch words really good, just with a bit of an accent, I mean quite a bit actually😂
Yeah
Like Yankees comes from Jan-Kees. There are some more. Dollar comes from the Daalder, old Dutch currency. Harlem comes from Haarlem an old Dutch city. Wallstreet was build by Dutch during the war against the English. There was an actual defence wall where now Wallstreet is situated. So yeah we Dutch had some influence on real Amereican things :)
@Henk 😂 Jan Kaas. Klaas wellicht.
The flower statistic is about all flowers so 80% of all flowers are exported from the Netherlands, BUT a good part of that are first imported to the Netherlands so that's just redistributing. However, most tulips are grown in the Netherlands, so I guess it's both.
6.2 billion flowers and plants in 2019. Over half a million metric tons. Bloemetje?
Because of the "afsluitdijk" the water is not salt around flevoland, it is a lake, not a sea.
Yoo! Nice vid. "Korfbal" is like basketball without a backboard and instead of hanging the ring is placed on top of a pole/mast. And also! The ring aka a "korf" is more like a wicker circular picnic-basket with the bottom and lid removed.
yes VOC is biggest company in history worth around 7.8 Trillion dollars, with 50.000 workforce and just 200 ships
The water around the polder named Flevoland wasnt salt!There was a dike before that (afsluitdijk) who closed the water from the sea!The water that filled that lake came from de rivers.
13:54 That would be through the Rhine. Then through some other smaller rivers, it can connect to the Danube, which basically ends up on the other side of Europe. You could connect every country with rivers from Rotterdam
Interesting… not.
the 80 percent you were referring to was indeed of ALL flowers in general :)
"Recht voor zijn raap", meaning "getting straight to the point".
Us Dutchies are being seen as ruthless "straight to buniness"-people.
Which is a common thing among native Dutch persons.
The Thirty Years war was occupied the last 30 years of the Eighty years War. Both were settled at the same conference, known as the Peace of Westphalia. Both wars are roughly about the same (Kings/Emperors forcing religion on areas/countries, trying to counter emerging Protestantism), but the Eighty years war is mostly between Netherlands/Belgium vs the Habsburg Empire and after the split of the Habsburg realm Spain. That's because the Habsburg branch that inherited the Netherlands was King there(and was he raised in his mother court, contrary to his father who was raised in the NL(well, Belgium nowadays) and Burgundy). The Thirty Years war has the same cause, but mostly in the German speaking parts (Germany/Austria) of the Habsburg Holy Roman Empire. The Netherlands were direct Habsburgs possessions contrary to Germany where they were (also) Emperor but with local royalty/nobility in between who also wanted a say in preferred religion matters.
Okay, I you go by a boat that is small but seaworthy, you can go from Rotterdam up the Maas, then Waal, Rhine and the Rhine-Danube Canal, Danube, Black Sea and up the Dnieper you might even get to connect to the Volga.
We got castled in the netherlands. A big one close to my home is the Muiderslot (tourists call it Amsterdam Castle, but it isnt in amsterdam at all, it is in Muiden) its a castle in fully intact state (after some reconstructions here and there) it has a very cool story about it being seiged once to kill the owner at the time (i think) Graaf Floris, he tried to escape by hopping in a big chest and being shipped off on a cart, but he got caught. (I think thats the story but its been a while)
Well everyone is calling it Amsterdam castle. Why would a foreign tourist know Muiden for god’s sake?
Jheronimus Bosch is amazing.... and native english speakers have a very notable accent when they speak dutch
One 'G' and you're made.
It's fresh water that surrounds Flevoland there's a big ass dijk called afsluitdijk keeping the salt water on the northside and now fresh water to the south of it.
Yes we have castle's and some palaces aswell. remember the following we are technically called The Kingdom of The Netherlands. what is a kingdom without a castle or palace
You are partly right about the submarine...the Dutchman who invented it was in American service
Yep, 80 percent of ALL flowers ! 😉
The star shaped castle youre asking of i think is called "Heusden" it was bombed in ww2, theres still ruïnes nowadays and some canons left from the period. A lot of buildings are really old still and it has lot of history, wich you can check out at the city hall. Hope you read it, cause i think most dutch pple dont know about the place and history of it tbh.
Hahaha..."go back to Disneyland"...that is such a Dutch thing to say ..😂
gezellig translates to cosy and thats right i am dutch and there are a lot of small towns where many people now each other and we are willing to help almost every one
Comes from the medieval guild system. Below the masters were the 'gezellen'. Much like students now, they knew how to have a good time.
The dutch east indie company (VOC) was valued at 7.8T todays standards which is almost 4 times as big as apple currently is
On the subject of social diversity, and avoiding trying to make any unfair direct comparisons, we're pretty big on multiculturalism in the Netherlands as well. You alluded to the idea that the Netherlands is culturally pretty homogeneous, and while 'out back' there definitively exist towns and regions like that, the majority of us live in ethnically and culturally diverse urbanized areas. That said, I don't think this diversity is necessarily a good reason for social programs to fail, even if it can take a lot more sweat and tears to get all the systems meshed and fair for all.
About the flower exports, that number is approximately correct, and isn't just about tulips, but *all* flowers.
Haha, and don't worry too much about the "this isn't disney land!" thing, tourists are pretty easy to spot to locals, and we do like to hassle them a bit if they're dilly dallying on cycle paths, but I think the remark was about 50/50 in jest and as a heads up.
one of the best tries to speak Dutch i have ever heard. most sounds are still wrong but i could understand you sir. gg
Im from Lelystad the capital of the province Flevoland and the water next to it is freshwater because the two lakes next to it markermeer and ijsselmeer are separated from the sea by the afsluitdijk and houtribdijk
What's the furthest you get into Europe by boat? Or ship?
Boat: Basel Switzerland via Rhine river.
But keep in mind there is a waterway for ships from rotterdam to the black sea, so smaller vessels can cross all of europe from the Netherlands to Romania, via Rhine-Main-Danube Canal.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine%E2%80%93Main%E2%80%93Danube_Canal
With bigger container ships, Hamburg via Elbe river, I'd guess.
2:48 Dutchie here, to prove we are very decent at speaking English. I think you meant to say that we are more ''fluent'' in English than other countries. At middle school we already have English as a obligated class, so you aren't allowed to pass school if you haven't passed the English exams. This continues when we go to study, I think you would call it college. Same here, English is in your final exam. And because of that, we have a multilingual percentage of 95% of all people in The Netherlands. Only the elderly people and immigrants have trouble speaking other languages, but almost all young and true Dutch people know how to communicate in English.
I'm not an expert but... interesting that you are talking about salt water seeping in. Although the IJsselmeer that surrounds Flevoland is a fresh water lake now, it is true in general that reclaimed land at the coastline needs a steady influx of fresh water to keep the salt water from seeping under the dikes. Luckily the Netherlands has a number of large rivers going through it that provide enough fresh water for this. So there is a delicate balance to be kept between how much fresh water comes into an area and how much water to pump out. Pumping out too much fresh water means that salt water will enter an area which causes problems for agriculture.
Korfbal literally means basket ball. It's basically the same game, but there is no dribbling and no backboard.
Good job on reading that dutch. The ng is the same as in english, but every other g is the sound you make when you have something stuck in your throat. Ch is that same g sound, but becomes silent after an S in some cases. I realised how insane our language is after learning other languages.
Backboards are for people who can't aim.
First submarine was indeed dutch. But the first submarine adapted to warfare was American.