The Hague is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the capital of the province of South Holland. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam, The Hague has been described as the country's de facto capital.
Hengelo is a city in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the region Twente, province of Overijssel. It is part of a larger urban area that also includes Enschede, Borne, Almelo and Oldenzaal.
Hof van Twente is a municipality in the eastern Netherlands, province Overijssel. The municipality was established January 1, 2001, as the result of the merger of the municipalities of Diepenheim, Goor, Markelo, Ambt Delden, and Stad Delden.
Van is a very common prefix in Dutch language surnames, where it is known as a tussenvoegsel. In those cases it nearly always refers to a certain, often quite distant, ancestor's place of origin or residence; for example, Ludwig van Beethoven "from Beethoven" and Rembrandt van Rijn "from the Rhine". Van is also a preposition in the Dutch and Afrikaans languages, meaning "of" or "from" depending on the context.
Santiago Torti "Santi" Kolk is a Dutch former professional footballer. He currently works as a football agent. He mostly played as a forward during his career.
Nieuwleusen is a town in the Dutch province of Overijssel with 9300 inhabitants as of 2021. In the 2001 municipal reform, most of the former municipality of Nieuwleusen was incorporated into the municipality of Dalfsen. Some parts of the former municipality, including the Lichtmis area, was added to the neighbouring municipality of Zwolle.
Terheijl is a hamlet in the Netherlands and is part of the Noordenveld municipality in Drenthe.
Loosduinen is a former village in the Netherlands that was a municipality unto itself until 1923, when it was annexed by The Hague and subsequently became a district of the city.
Jarchinio Angelo Roberto Antonia is a Curaçaoan professional footballer who plays as a winger for Dutch club TEC and the Curaçao national team.
Jacobus Ruurd "Jaap" Bruijn, was a Dutch maritime historian. He was professor of maritime history at the University of Leiden from 1979 until his retirement in 2003. During his 41-year teaching career as The Netherlands' only university professor of maritime history, he guided the doctoral theses of at least 49 graduate students.
The bombing of the Bezuidenhout took place on 3 March 1945, when the Royal Air Force mistakenly bombed the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in the Dutch city of The Hague resulting in the death of 532 citizens.
Sébastien Dockier is a Belgian field hockey player who plays as a forward for Dutch Hoofdklasse club Pinoké.
H.V. & C.V. Quick, also known as Quick Den Haag, is a Dutch football and cricket club from The Hague. Since 2017, its first male football squad plays in the Sunday Derde Divisie. Quick is the Dutch National Football Champion of 1908 and Dutch National Cup winner of 1909, 1910, 1911, and 1916.
Mike Havekotte is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Eerste Divisie club TOP Oss.
Yahya Boussakou is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a winger or right-back for Eerste Divisie club Telstar.
De Vloek was a squatted, self-managed social centre in The Hague, the Netherlands, between 2002 and 2015. Located on Hellingweg 127 in Scheveningen, beside the North Sea, the squat hosted workplaces, living spaces, a venue, and a vegan restaurant. The local council tolerated the occupation until 2014, when it decided to sell the building. A political struggle over the eviction began; some political parties supported the squatters and the Scheveningen Pier was briefly occupied as a protest action. A deal was made for the squatters to move to a former school building and the Vloek was eventually evicted in September 2015.
Max de Waal is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Eerste Divisie club Willem II.
Walid Ould-Chikh is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for Eerste Divisie club Roda JC, on loan from Volendam.
Windesheim is a village in the municipality of Zwolle in the province of Overijssel, Netherlands. The Congregation of Windesheim was located in Windesheim from 1387 until 1577.
The Red Cloud is an 1907 early painting by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. It was painted in 1907. Mondrian completed the painting while staying near Oele, in the east of the Netherlands. One art historian has noted that the "hard colour contrasts and charged, expressive brushwork" is part of Mondrian's evolution towards an abstract painter.
