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Dutch Americans
Dutch Americans, Americans of Dutch (Netherlands) ancestry, numbered 5,045,046 in the 2024 ACS. Distinguished by the New Netherland colonial era, the 1846-47 Calvinist Midwest migration, and post-1946 immigration.
Dutch angle
A Dutch angle, also called a Dutch tilt or canted shot, is a camera shot with the camera rolled so the horizon sits off level in the frame.
Dutch auction
A Dutch auction, or descending auction, is an auction where the price starts high and falls until the first bidder accepts and wins at that price.
Dutch baby pancake
Dutch baby pancake, also called German pancake, Bismarck, or Dutch puff: a large sweet oven-baked American pancake with steam-puffed edges, popularized at Manca's Cafe in Seattle by Victor Manca; name from 'Deutsch', not the Netherlands.
Dutch book arguments
Dutch book arguments, also called Dutch book theorems, hold that degrees of belief should satisfy the probability axioms because incoherent beliefs allow bets guaranteeing a loss.
Dutch Bros. Coffee
Dutch Bros. Coffee (Dutch Bros Inc., NYSE: BROS) is an American drive-thru beverage chain founded in 1992 in Grants Pass, Oregon, by Dane and Travis Boersma, with 1,225 shops in 25 states as of June 30, 2026.
Dutch Cape Colony
The Dutch Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie) was a European colony at the Cape of Good Hope, founded by the Dutch East India Company in 1652 as a refreshment station.
Dutch capture of Bahia
The Dutch capture of Bahia (Invasão holandesa da Bahia) was the seizure of Salvador, capital of Portuguese Brazil, by a Dutch West India Company fleet in May 1624.
Dutch capture of Curaçao
The Dutch capture of Curaçao in 1634 was the seizure of the Spanish-held island by the Dutch West India Company under Johannes van Walbeeck, completed by 21 August.
Dutch Caribbean
Dutch Caribbean: the six Caribbean islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba), reorganized on 10 October 2010 when the Netherlands Antilles dissolved into three constituent countries and three Dutch special municipalities.
Dutch Caribbean Securities Exchange (DCSX)
The Dutch Caribbean Securities Exchange (DCSX) is a securities exchange in Curaçao, opened for trading in Willemstad in January 2011 and the only authorized exchange in the Dutch Caribbean.
Dutch colonial novel
The Dutch colonial novel (Indische roman) is Dutch-language fiction about the Netherlands' overseas colonies, above all the Dutch East Indies, founded by Multatuli's Max Havelaar (1860).
Dutch colonization of the Americas
Dutch colonization of the Americas, also called Dutch America, was settlement and commercial exploitation by the Dutch Republic and the Dutch West India Company, chartered in 1621.
Dutch conquest of Bali
The Dutch conquest of Bali was a series of military campaigns between 1846 and 1908 that brought the Balinese kingdoms under Dutch colonial rule, including the Puputan Badung of 1906.
Dutch conquest of Jambi
The Dutch conquest of Jambi was the 1858 Netherlands Indies expedition that bombarded the sultan's palace on Sumatra, deposed Sultan Thaha Saifuddin, and installed a rival sultan.
Dutch conquest of Malabar
The Dutch conquest of Malabar (കൊല്ലം) was the Dutch East India Company campaign from 1658 to 1663 that seized Portuguese forts on the Malabar coast of present-day Kerala.
Dutch conquest of Malacca
The Dutch conquest of Malacca (Penaklukan Melaka oleh Belanda) was the capture of Portuguese-held Malacca by the Dutch East India Company and Johor after a six-month siege, ending on 14 January 1641.
Dutch conquest of northeastern Brazil
The Dutch conquest of northeastern Brazil (Invasão holandesa do Brasil) was the Dutch West India Company's seizure of the Portuguese sugar captaincies of the Brazilian Northeast between 1630 and 1654.
Dutch cricket team in New Zealand in 2021–22
Netherlands men's cricket tour of New Zealand, March–April 2022: one T20I (abandoned, Napier) and three ODIs (Mount Maunganui, Hamilton) in the ICC World Cup Super League; New Zealand swept the ODIs 3–0 in Ross Taylor's farewell series.
Dutch cuisine
Dutch cuisine: the Netherlands' food tradition of simple, hearty everyday meals (stamppot, herring, cheese), shaped by colonial trade and immigration, with 119 Michelin-starred restaurants in 2026.
Dutch Defence
The Dutch Defence, or Dutch Opening, is a chess opening against 1.d4 beginning with 1.d4 f5, named for the Netherlands after Elias Stein's 1789 book.
Dutch Dike reinforcement programmes (HWBP)
The Dutch Dike reinforcement programs, or Hoogwaterbeschermingsprogramma (HWBP), is the national program launched in 2014 to bring all Dutch primary flood defenses up to statutory safety standards by 2050.
Dutch disease
Dutch disease is the decline of a country's manufacturing sector caused by a resource export boom, named for the Netherlands after its 1959 North Sea gas finds.
Dutch door
A Dutch door is a door split horizontally into two halves that can open separately or latch together, letting air in while keeping children and animals out.
Dutch East India Company
The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC) was a Dutch trading company, chartered in 1602, that held a monopoly on Dutch trade in Asia.
Dutch East India Company at the Cape
The Dutch East India Company at the Cape (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC) was a refreshment station founded by Jan van Riebeeck in 1652, under Company rule until 1795.
Dutch East India Company in Malabar
The Dutch East India Company in Malabar was the branch of the VOC that ruled parts of the Malabar Coast of Kerala from the 1660s until 1795.
Dutch East Indies
Dutch East Indies (Nederlands-Indië, Hindia Belanda): the Dutch colony ruling the Indonesian archipelago 1818–1942, from VOC trade to the Cultivation System, forced labour, courts, and independence in 1945–1949.
Dutch elm disease
Dutch elm disease (DED), caused by the fungi Ophiostoma ulmi and Ophiostoma novo-ulmi, is a vascular wilt of elms spread by bark beetles and root grafts; two 20th-century pandemics killed tens of millions of elms in Europe and North America.
Dutch embassies to Edo
The Dutch embassies to Edo (オランダ江戸参府) were journeys by the head of the Dutch East India Company's factory in Japan to the shogun's court, from 1609 to 1850.