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Dutch expedition against Bone
The Dutch expedition against Bone was a punitive campaign by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army against the Bugis kingdom of Bone in South Sulawesi in 1824 and 1825.
Dutch expedition to Banten
The Dutch expedition to Banten (Kedatangan armada Houtman di Banten) was the first Dutch trading voyage to the Indonesian archipelago, reaching Banten on Java in June 1596 under Cornelis de Houtman.
Dutch expedition to Palembang
The Dutch expedition to Palembang of 1821, also called the Second Expedition to Palembang, captured Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II's palace and exiled him to Ternate.
Dutch expedition to Valdivia
A 1643 Dutch West India Company expedition commanded by Hendrick Brouwer that occupied the abandoned city of Valdivia in southern Chile, then withdrew after failing to win Mapuche cooperation.
Dutch factory at Cochin
The Dutch factory at Cochin (കൊച്ചി ഡച്ച് കമ്പനി) was the Dutch East India Company's fort and trading settlement at Cochin on the Malabar coast, held from 1663 until 1795.
Dutch Factory Moved to Dejima
The Dutch Factory Moved to Dejima (出島移転) was the transfer, completed on 24 July 1641, of the Dutch East India Company factory from Hirado to Dejima, Nagasaki.
Dutch Formosa
Dutch Formosa, also known as Tayowan, was Dutch East India Company rule in southern Taiwan from 1624 to 1662, ending when Koxinga captured Fort Zeelandia.
Dutch Golden Age
Dutch Golden Age (Gouden Eeuw): the seventeenth century of the Dutch Republic, conventionally 1588-1672, when it led world trade, finance, art (Rembrandt, Vermeer), and science, while profiting from colonial slavery.
Dutch Golden Age literature
Dutch Golden Age literature is the Dutch-language literature of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, a period of prosperity whose central authors include Vondel, Hooft, Huygens, Cats, and Bredero.
Dutch Golden Age painting
Dutch Golden Age painting, also called 17th-century Dutch painting, is the art of the Dutch Republic from 1588 to 1672, defined by a mass middle-class art market, genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes, and masters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals.
Dutch Grand Prix
Dutch Grand Prix (Grote Prijs van Nederland), Formula 1 race at Circuit Zandvoort; championship round 1952–1985, revived 2021, leaves calendar after the 2026 final edition won by Lando Norris.
Dutch guilder
The Dutch guilder, also known as the florin, was the currency of the Netherlands from 1517 until the euro replaced it in 2002, at 2.20371 guilders per euro.
Dutch Harbor
Dutch Harbor, on Amaknak Island at Unalaska, Alaska, is the leading U.S. fishing port by volume for over 25 years and the site of the June 1942 Japanese bombing.
Dutch Holocaust literature
Dutch Holocaust literature is Dutch-language writing on the persecution and murder of the Jews of the Netherlands, including diaries, poetry, and novels, with Anne Frank's diary as its best-known work.
Dutch India
Dutch India: VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) trading settlements in India, 1602-1824, centered on Coromandel Coast forts at Pulicat and Nagapattinam, trading textiles for spices, ending with the 1824 Anglo-Dutch treaty.
Dutch intervention in Bali (1846–1849)
The Dutch intervention in Bali (1846–1849) was a series of three military expeditions by the Netherlands Indies against the Balinese kingdoms of northern Bali, chiefly Buleleng and Karangasem.
Dutch language
Dutch (Nederlands), a West Germanic language of the Low Countries between English and German, has about 24 million native speakers, official status in six countries, a 1980 Dutch Language Union, and Afrikaans as its closest relative.
Dutch language in Belgium
The Dutch language in Belgium, or Belgian Standard Dutch, is the national variety spoken in Flanders and Brussels, which gained equality with French in 1898.
Dutch language in Indonesia
Dutch in Indonesia (bahasa Belanda): the colonial language of the Dutch East Indies, official before 1945 but never a lingua franca. Spoken by a small elite, abolished from education by 1950-1957; legacy survives in Indonesian loanwords and Dutch-era legal codes.
Dutch Malacca
Dutch Malacca was the period from 1641 to 1824 when the Dutch governed the port city of Malacca on the Malay Peninsula, having captured it from the Portuguese.
Dutch Mantel
Dutch Mantel (Dutch Mantell): ring name shared by Wayne Keown (b. 1949), wrestler, booker, and WWE's Zeb Colter, and by Alfred de Re la Gardiur (1881), Luxembourg-born early wrestler.
Dutch national flag problem
The Dutch national flag problem, posed by Edsger Dijkstra in 1973, is sorting an array of three values, such as red, white, and blue, in one pass in place.
Dutch national records in track cycling
The Dutch national records in track cycling are records recognized by the KNWU in sprint and endurance events, from the 200 m flying start to the hour record.
Dutch occupation of Brazil
The Dutch occupation of Brazil (Invasões holandesas) was the Dutch West India Company's conquest and rule of northeastern Brazil's sugar captaincies from 1630 to 1654, ended by a Portuguese-Brazilian reconquest.
Dutch occupation of Luanda
The Dutch occupation of Luanda was the Dutch West India Company's seizure of Portugal's colonial capital in Angola from 1641 to 1648, also taking Benguela.
Dutch Open (tennis)
Dutch Open Tournament, also NXT Level Dutch Open, an ATP Challenger 75 clay-court tennis event in Bunschoten-Spakenburg, Netherlands, the only Dutch ATP clay tournament; Guy den Ouden won 2025, Griekspoor 2022.
Dutch oven
Dutch oven: heavy thick-walled lidded cooking pot, usually cast iron (enameled or bare), also called French oven or cocotte; stovetop-to-oven vessel for braising, stews, frying, and steam-trapped bread baking, named for Dutch sand-mold casting.
Dutch people
Dutch people are the Germanic ethnic group and nation of the Netherlands. Three-quarters aged 15+ speak Dutch at home; 10% speak recognized regional languages (Frisian, Low Saxon, Limburgish); early modern Republic cities were 25-60% migrant.
Dutch phonology
Dutch phonology: the sound system of Standard Dutch (Nederlands), a West Germanic language. Covers its large tense–lax vowel inventory with three diphthongs, final devoicing (hoed/hoeden), unaspirated plosives, uvular vs alveolar /r/, and Netherlandic vs Flemish variation.
Dutch poetry
Dutch poetry is poetry written in the Dutch language, principally in the Netherlands and Flanders, studied as a single tradition from medieval verse to the postwar Vijftigers renewal.