United Kingdom of the Netherlands
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Koninkrijk der Nederlanden (Dutch) Royaume des Belgiques (French) |
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Motto "Je maintiendrai" (French) "I will uphold" |
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Anthem "Those in whom Dutch blood" |
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 Map of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815. The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is shown in light green.
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| Capital | Amsterdam and Brussels | |||||||||||||||||
| Languages | Dutch (official, all over the kingdom), French (official, in the Walloon provinces and in the Parliament), Frisian, Luxembourgish. | |||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Protestant, Catholic | |||||||||||||||||
| Government | Constitutional monarchy | |||||||||||||||||
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| • | 1815–1839 | William I | ||||||||||||||||
| Legislature | States General | |||||||||||||||||
| • | Upper house | Senate | ||||||||||||||||
| • | Lower house | House of Representatives | ||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern period | |||||||||||||||||
| • | Congress of Vienna | 16 March 1815 | ||||||||||||||||
| • | Constitution adopted | 24 August 1815 | ||||||||||||||||
| • | Belgian Revolution | 25 August 1830 | ||||||||||||||||
| • | Treaty of London | 19 April 1839 | ||||||||||||||||
| Currency | Dutch guilder | |||||||||||||||||
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United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1839) (Dutch: Verenigd Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, French: Royaume uni des Pays-Bas) was the unofficial name for the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, French: Royaume des Belgiques) during the period after it was first created from part of the First French Empire and before the new Kingdom of Belgium split off from it in 1830.
This state, a large part of which still exists today as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, was made up of the former Dutch Republic (Republic of the Seven United Netherlands) to the north, the former Austrian Netherlands to the south, and the former Prince-Bishopric of Liège. The House of Orange-Nassau came to be the monarchs of this new state.
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands collapsed after the 1830 Belgian Revolution. William I, King of the Netherlands, would refuse to recognize a Belgian state until 1839, when he had to yield under pressure by the Treaty of London. Only at this time were exact borders agreed upon.
Nowadays, the Benelux Union (created in 1944 between Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) is in some ways a "distant heir" of the former United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Their respective political systems are very similar and Dutch is the official and vernacular language of 83% of its total population.
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