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[edit] Dutch Royal Family?
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The color orange is a ubiquitous sight on Queen's Day, as it represents the House of Orange, which is the name of the current Dutch royal family.
The sentence is wrong because in the Netherlandse the Dutch Royal family (Orange-Nassau) is the only family who ruled the Kingdom of Netherlands since 1815. So the word current is wrong. Before 1815 the Netherlands had the Kingdom of Holland ruled by the House of Napoleon, but that isn't a Dutch family. Greetings, and a happy koninnedag for al the Dutch people in foreign lands!
If I may add... Before the french occupied the Netherlands the family of Oranje-Nassua ruled the country for many years, but it was not a Kingdom, but as "Stadhouder". The House of Oranje (named after the french city of Orange) has been longer involved (and yes ruled Kings and Queens after 1815) then any other monarchy in Europe.
[edit] Visitors in Amsterdam
Soetermans changed the upper range of the number of visitors in Amsterdam from 2 million to 800.000, with the claim "no way that the city of Amsterdam could hold 2 million people; this year was a top one with 800,000 (!))" ('this year' being 2007). But I noticed that it was not quite as crowded as some other years. Could Amsterdam hold 2 million people? Let's take the centre proper. 2 x 2 = 4 km2. Let's say 10% of that is street. That gives us 400.000 m2. One would then have to fit 5 people on 1 m2. Ok, that's rather crowded, although in some parts of the Jordaan it is no exaggeration. But the area is rather bigger, maybe 10% is a bit of a low figure, not everyone is in the streets (think of the many boats) and not everyone will be there at the same time (not all day). Still, it is pushing it, but other years have been more crowded than 2007. How does one make estimates like this? DirkvdM 13:46, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
- One would not make such an estimate here. It would be original research, leave to the police to think about this. C mon 15:52, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
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- True, but note it was Soetermans' OR and I just tried to reason that through. So Soetermans' edit was invalid and shuld bebreverted. Still, a source would be better. DirkvdM 10:44, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] House of Orange / Oranje
I don't know the habits of the English language, but in Dutch the name of the royal family is Oranje (with a J) and not Orange (with a G). So if one writes House of Orange it strikes me as wrong. Do you natively English speaking guys agree with that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Josdorpjossie (talk • contribs) 12:23, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Citation needed
I've removed some citation needed templates. When all Dutch citizens can tell you what traditional queensday for the Queen means - we don't need more sources I hope. JacobH (talk) 16:52, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
