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... Netherlands ) runs up against a considerable prob- lem in that the area did not form a self - contained political unit ; it was a part of a greater whole . Neither did it form a cultural or ethnic unit . A geographical limit to the area ...
... Netherlands ) runs up against a considerable prob- lem in that the area did not form a self - contained political unit ; it was a part of a greater whole . Neither did it form a cultural or ethnic unit . A geographical limit to the area ...
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... Netherlands began to make an independent contribution to cultural life . In the southern Netherlands , this was already the case with mysticism , which reached its zenith in the 13th and 14th centuries in the poems of Sister Hadewych ...
... Netherlands began to make an independent contribution to cultural life . In the southern Netherlands , this was already the case with mysticism , which reached its zenith in the 13th and 14th centuries in the poems of Sister Hadewych ...
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... Netherlands received as its monarch Napoleon's younger brother Louis . The four years of his kingship were one of ... Netherlands and was given sovereignty over the southern Netherlands , which includ- ed both Belgium and Luxembourg ...
... Netherlands received as its monarch Napoleon's younger brother Louis . The four years of his kingship were one of ... Netherlands and was given sovereignty over the southern Netherlands , which includ- ed both Belgium and Luxembourg ...
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