Agriculture. – Of the population in 1920, 36.8% were devoted to agriculture, fishing and forestry; 27.4% of the population was employed in industries; 11.1% were dedicated to trade; 9.1% to housework; 8.6% to merchant navy and transport. According to Smber, the...
Norway State of north-western Europe, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and dependent seas (of Barents, Norway, North) for its 3400 km of coastal perimeter, while by land it borders to the NE with Russia ( for 120 km) and Finland (for 800...
Population and its distribution In the last decade, the Norwegian population has increased by only 320,000 units: this has further reduced the annual growth coefficient from 0.8% (average of the years 1960-63) to 0.7% (average of the years 1970- 73). According...
In recent years a lively archaeological activity has developed particularly in the eastern part of the Rhine delta, where numerous sites of the late Iron Age have been identified and explored. In almost all cases the traces of the inhabited areas...
In the last twenty years there has been a great development of archaeological investigations in the Netherlands. This led to the creation, by the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sciences, of a “Central Service of State Excavations” whose task is to...
According to Itypeusa, the cinema entered the Netherlands in 1896, the year in which the first public screening took place. Subsequently, the first events that had as protagonists the royal family and in particular Queen Guglielmina, the privileged subject of numerous...
The panorama of Dutch literature over the last twenty years, which has changed thanks to the many new names, is generally divided into three currents. According to itypejob, faithful to itself, but somewhat isolated from the general public, is the modernist...
Expressionism had been introduced in Netherlands by the avant-garde magazine Het getij (“La marea”, 1916-24), which was replaced by De vrije bladen (“The free sheets”, 1924-32) which continued the address of openness to vitalism and the exaltation of a cosmic feeling....
With the birth (1588) of the republic of the United Provinces, literary dominance gradually shifted from the southern to the northern area. The capital, scholarship, ingenuity and spirit of initiative of the many tens of thousands of exiles who moved to...
The end of classical academicism was marked by the birth of the Maatschappij der Nederlandsche letterkunde (“Society of Dutch literature”), founded in Leiden in 1766 and still active today, born from the merger of some societies of poets on the initiative...
