Car Rental Netherland
The History more:
In the late 16th
century a Dutch revolt against the authority of the King of Spain, at the time
ruler of what now constitutes the Low Countries, succeeded in the northern provinces,
which later became the Netherlands. The Dutch Republic, officially established
in 1648, fell in 1795 when the armies of revolutionary France imposed a pro-French
government. In 1810 France annexed the Netherlands, but with the defeat of Napoleon
in 1814 to 1815 the present Dutch state, officially called the Kingdom of the
Netherlands, came into being. Originally Belgium was part of this new kingdom,
but it seceded in 1830 and formed an independent country. The present boundaries
of the Netherlands are essentially those established after the secession of Belgium. In
the 1st century BC, Romans rule the province and peace and prosperity prevailed
for more than two hundred and fifty years. Later, Charlemagne, one of the greatest
Frankish kings also ruled the territory. The Scandinavian Vikings ruled the state
during 9th and 10th centuries. The state
became an important center for shipping and trade in 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries
and wealthy merchants backed by their newly acquired power dared to challenge
the nobles who ruled across the countryside. In the early 16th century the Netherlands
and its nearby area, known as the Low Countries, went from rules of the dukes
of Bourgogne to the hands of the Habsburg emperor Charles V. Since
the beginning of Middle Ages, the rulers of the Low Countries had not only established
themselves as one of the most affluent powers of Europe but also, ironically,
as one of the rulers who were most politically unstable.
By the early Sixteenth
Century, the imperial influence had gained lot of importance; the Low Countries
had turned out to be immobilized, to a degree through dynastic ties, annexed to
the far-flung empire of the Hapsburgs. It was up against Hapsburg rule that the
Low Countries (largely protestant from the Northern provinces) rebelled in 1568
under the leadership of William of Orange and Nassau. The
struggle and fight for independence, which continued until 1648, experienced a
remarkable growth in Dutch sea power. The golden age of 17th century witnessed
the emergence of new art and culture in the Dutch horizon. In
1810, as Napoleon taken over the Dutch empire, The Netherlands saw a decline in
its strength and was on the wane. Afterward though in between 1814-30 the whole
area of the Low Countries was briefly reunited. In
1848, an amendment in the constitution left the then monarchs only with limited
powers. In the World War I though Netherlands did not take active part but badly
bore the pain of Nazi invasion in 1940. The Dutch diplomats mooted the plan of
a united European Union.
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