Overijssel is a province of the Netherlands in the central eastern part of the country. The region has a NUTS classification of NL21. The province’s name means “Lands across river IJssel”. The capital city of Overijssel is Zwolle and the largest city is Enschede. The province has a population of 1,113,529 inhabitants.
University of Utrecht (Universiteit Utrecht in the paper. Dutch) is a university in Utrecht, The Netherlands. It is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe. In the rankings as the seventh is given a good university in Europe in the Academic Ranking of World Universities. Was founded 26 March, 1636 the number of students in 2004 was 26,787, employs 8,224 workers and administrative staff, of whom 570 are professors. In 2004, given the 358 doctorates of philosophy, was published in 7010 articles. In 2004, the school budget amounted to 653 million €.
Nationaal Park Duinen van Texel Is a national park located on the Frisian island Texel in the Netherlands. All dunesystems on the western side of the island and the large coastal plains on both the northern and southern points of the island are part of the park. The park covers approximately 43 square kilometres and got its status of national park in 2002. The visitor center is located in natural history museum Ecomare.
In 1927 botanist Jac. P. Thijsse made a illustrated book about the flora and fauna on the island, and pointed out the major Environmental Values of the island. This book was one of a series, you got the book almost for free, and the a few pictures came free with each Verkade chocolate bar. [1]
There are many walking trails were you follow either red, yellow, blue or green signs The green routes are not accessible during the breading season. Many bicycle trails go across the park as well.
Netherlands, Kingdom in Western Europe, in the north and west of the North Sea, in East Germany and Belgium to the south borders. Together with Belgium and Luxembourg, the Netherlands the so-called Benelux countries. The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, two self-administered territories in the Caribbean, are also part of the Kingdom. The Netherlands comprise a total of 41 526 square kilometers, of which 33 880 square kilometers of land are. The capital and largest city is Amsterdam, the seat of government is The Hague.
The country has a maximum north-south extension of 300 kilometers, from west to east is about 180 km. The coastline is approximately 451 km.
The word Netherlands (Dutch Nederlanden) means low-lying country, a large portion of the north and west of the country lies below sea level. This region, as the Low Netherlands called, is of canals, rivers and bays shaped. In the east and south, the High Netherlands, whose surface is slightly above the sea level and its landscape flat to slightly hilly is. The area in the High Netherlands is rarely higher than 50 meters. Only in the extreme southeast, there are several surveys of 100 meters.
“God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands” is an old Dutch proverb. The levees, canals, dams, sluices and windmills, the Netherlands dominate the landscape, are all part of the drainage system, which already existed in the Middle Ages. This system, it allows residents of the country, whose land area by almost one fifth to enlarge. Without the constant drainage and the protection of beach dunes would be about half of the Netherlands of water.
Under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and king of Spain, the region was part of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands, which also included most of present-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and some land of France and Germany. The year 1568 saw the start of the Eighty Years’ War between the provinces and Spain. In 1579, the northern half of the Seventeen Provinces formed the Union of Utrecht, a treaty in which they promised to support each other in their defense against the Spanish army. The Union of Utrecht is seen as the foundation of the modern Netherlands. In 1581 the northern provinces adopted the Act of Abjuration, the declaration of independence in which the provinces officially deposed Philip II. Philip II the son of Charles V, was not prepared to let them go easily and war continued until 1648 when Spain under King Philip IV finally recognised the independence of the seven northwestern provinces in the Treaty of Münster. Parts of the southern provinces became de facto colonies of the new republican-mercantile empire.
The Netherlands’ largest national park, Hoge Veluwe would be a fantastic place to visit for its marshlands, forests and sand dunes alone, but its brilliant museum makes it unmissable. The park was purchased by Anton and Helene Kröller-Müller, a wealthy German-Dutch couple, in 1914. He wanted hunting grounds, she wanted a museum site. They got both.
It was given to the state in 1930 and in 1938 a museum opened for Helene’s remarkable art collection. A visit to the park can fill an entire day and, if you don’t have a bike, you can borrow one of the park’s hundreds of famous, free ‘white bicycles’.
In the heart of the park, the main visitors centre is an attraction itself. It has displays on the flora and fauna, including one showing the gruesome results when a deer has a bad day and a crow has a good day.
Roads through the park are limited. There are many bike paths or hiking trails, with three signposted routes. The most interesting area is the Wildbaan, south of the Kröller-Müller Museum. At the north edge, Jachthuis St Hubert is the baronial hunting lodge that Anton had built. Named after the patron saint of hunting (but not the hunted), you can tour its woodsy interior.
Hordes of tourists snap their way around the Netherlands in summer, but this is still the best time of year to sit picnicking by the canals. August is a great month for all sorts of events. Spring is a good time to visit for daffodils and tulips. Easter is busy in Amsterdam, but if you can visit during Koninginnedag it’s worth fighting the crowds. Early October with its Indian summer can be an excellent time to come. In winter the museums are quiet, and if everything freezes over, there’s great ice skating on the canals and flood plains.
Amsterdam (IPA: [ɑmstərˈdɑm]) is the capital and the largest city of The Netherlands. Its name is derived from “Amstel dam”,[6] pointing to the city’s origin: a dam on the river Amstel. The city is known for its historic port, the Rijksmuseum, its red-light district (de Wallen), its liberal coffee shops, and its many canals which have led to Amsterdam being called the “Venice of the North”. During the Dutch Golden Age, Amsterdam was one of the most important ports in the world, with innovative developments in trade, and became the leading centre for finance and diamonds.[7]
The city, founded in the late 12th century as a small fishing village, has grown to become the largest city in the Netherlands with a population of 743,104 inhabitants, containing at least 172 nationalities.[8][9]
Amsterdam and its surrounding metropolitan area have a population of 1 million to about 1.5 million people, depending on definition, and is part of the Randstad conurbation, which has a population of 6,659,300. Also, Amsterdam is a six-point Gamma Global City.
The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland , IPA: [ˈne:dərlɑnt]) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba in the Caribbean. The Netherlands is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy, located in Western Europe. It is bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east.
The Netherlands is often called Holland. This is formally incorrect as North and South Holland in the western Netherlands are only two of the country’s twelve provinces. As a matter of fact, many Dutch people colloquially use Holland as a synecdoche, being well aware of the widespread use of this name. For more on this and other naming issues see terminology of the Netherlands.
The Netherlands is a geographically low-lying and densely populated country. It is popularly known for its traditional windmills, tulips, cheese, clogs (wooden shoes), delftware and gouda pottery, for its bicycles, its dikes and surge barriers, and, on the other hand, traditional values and civil virtues such as its classic social tolerance. But primarily, the Netherlands is a modern, advanced and open society. An old parliamentary democracy, the country is more recently known for its rather liberal policies toward recreational drugs, prostitution, homosexuality, abortion, and euthanasia. The Netherlands is also one of the most densely cabled countries in the world; its internet connection rate is 87.8%, the 2nd highest in the world.[1]
The Netherlands has an international outlook; among other affiliations the country is a founding member of the European Union (EU), NATO, the OECD, and has signed the Kyoto protocol. Along with Belgium and Luxembourg, the Netherlands is one of three member nations of the Benelux economic union. The country is host to five international(ised) courts: the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Court and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. All of these courts (except the Special Tribunal for Lebanon), as well as the EU’s criminal intelligence agency (Europol), are situated in The Hague, which has led to the city being referred to as “the world’s legal capital.”[2]
A remarkable aspect of the Netherlands is its flatness. Hilly landscapes can be found only in the south-eastern tip of the country on the foothills of the Ardennes, the central part and where the glaciers pushed up several hilly ridges such as the Hondsrug in Drenthe, the stuwwallen (push moraines) near Arnhem and Nijmegen, Salland, Twente and the Utrechtse Heuvelrug.
