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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.
Dutch profanity
Dutch profanity (vloeken, schelden) is Dutch taboo language, distinctive for swearing with diseases such as kanker, tyfus, and tering, explained by Calvinist predestination and secularization theories, plus borrowed English swear words.
Dutch psychological novel
The Dutch psychological novel (psychologische roman) is a subgenre of the novel in Dutch literature that centers on characters' thoughts, feelings, and motives, central since the late nineteenth century.
Dutch Reformed Church
The Dutch Reformed Church (Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk) is a family of Calvinist churches, most prominently South Africa's NG Kerk, founded in 1652 and later entangled with apartheid.
Dutch Republic
The Dutch Republic (Republic of the Seven United Dutch Provinces, 1588-1795), a federal republic born of the revolt against Spain: seven sovereign provinces, States-General in The Hague, VOC and WIC trade primacy, and collapse under French invasion in 1795.
Dutch roll
Dutch roll is an aircraft oscillation in which rolling and yawing motions occur out of phase, making the nose trace a figure eight on the horizon.
Dutch Safety Board
The Dutch Safety Board (Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid, OVV) is an independent Dutch administrative body, established in 2005, that investigates accidents and disasters and issues safety recommendations without determining guilt.
Dutch Sandwich
The Dutch Sandwich is a tax avoidance structure in which a shell Dutch conduit company routes royalties from an Irish operating company to tax havens such as Bermuda untaxed.
Dutch Schultz
Dutch Schultz (Arthur Flegenheimer, 1902-1935) was a Bronx bootlegger and Harlem numbers-racket boss pursued for tax evasion by Thomas Dewey; he was shot dead at Newark's Palace Chop House on Luciano's orders.
Dutch Shepherd
The Dutch Shepherd (Hollandse Herdershond) is a medium-sized brindle herding dog from the Netherlands, first standardized in 1898 and now used as a police and sport dog.
Dutch sonnet
The Dutch sonnet is the fourteen-line sonnet form as written in Dutch since 1565, when Lucas de Heere wrote the first, adapted from Italian and French models.
Dutch Symbolism
Dutch Symbolism is the reception of French Symbolism in Dutch-language literature and art of the Netherlands and Belgium from about 1890, with poets Leopold, Boutens, Verwey, and Van de Woestijne.
Dutch trade at Dejima
Dutch trade at Dejima was the Dutch East India Company's factory on the artificial island of Dejima in Nagasaki, Japan's only European trading post from 1641 to 1859.
Dutch Water Defence Lines
Dutch Water Defence Lines (Hollandse Waterlinies), UNESCO World Heritage site joining the Defence Line of Amsterdam and New Dutch Waterline: a 200 km system of 96 forts using knee-deep inundation to stop invaders, inscribed 1996 and extended 2021.
Dutch West India Company
The Dutch West India Company (Geoctrooieerde West-Indische Compagnie) was a chartered Dutch company, founded in 1621, holding a trade and colonization monopoly in the Americas and West Africa until 1791.
Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference
The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference (Konferensi Meja Bundar, KMB) was a 1949 negotiation in The Hague that ended Dutch rule and arranged the transfer of sovereignty to Indonesia.
Dutch–Johor Treaty of 1606
The Dutch–Johor Treaty of 1606 refers to two allied agreements between the Dutch East India Company and the Sultanate of Johor, aimed at seizing Malacca from the Portuguese.
Dutch–Portuguese War
The Dutch–Portuguese War, also called Guerra Luso-Neerlandesa, was an early modern conflict in which Dutch companies seized Portuguese colonies across Asia, Africa, and Brazil from the 1590s to 1663.