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...
In the last thirty years of the nineteenth century, together with the desire for renewal already validly represented, on the critical and social as well as literary level, by Multatuli and Busken-Huet, the individualistic tendency of Romanticism finally found expression in...
In the Dutch area the centers of culture had initially developed in the southern regions, in Limburg, in Antwerp, in Flanders and in particular in Brabant, under the dukes of Burgundy. The first literary texts date back to the last decades...
Population The Netherlands population, in 2009, recorded a growth rate of 0.4%, to be attributed to the natural increase of the population, in which the mortality rate (8.7 ‰, in 2009) is lower than the birth rate (10.6 ‰, in 2009),...
