what countries are included in the netherlands?
Elburg
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 Abroad in the Netherlands , the Great Fire of London was seen as a divine retribution for Holmes 's Bonfire , the burning by the English of a Dutch town during the Second Anglo @-@ Dutch War . 

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 The Netherlands originally became independent as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands , which lasted from 26 July 1581 until 18 January 1795 , when the Netherlands became a French puppet state as the Batavian Republic . The Batavian Republic existed from 19 January 1795 until 4 June 1806 . It was transformed into the Kingdom of Holland on 5 June 1806 ; since then , the Netherlands have been a kingdom . They were subsequently annexed to the French Empire in 1810 . The United Kingdom of the Netherlands was established on 16 March 1815 . With the independence of Belgium on 21 July 1831 , the Netherlands again took a new form , as the Kingdom of the Netherlands . Nowadays , about 70 to 80 per cent of the Dutch are in favor of keeping the monarchy . The current monarch is Willem @-@ Alexander . 

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 The Netherlands ( United Provinces ) were , in the 18th century , very tolerant in matters of freedom of the press and religious freedom . Compared to most contemporary countries , such as France , Great Britain or the Holy Roman Empire , there was little government interference ( censorship or monopolies ) . Many Huguenots fled France for the Netherlands during the reign of Louis XIV , particularly after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 . Several of them began publishing French @-@ language newspapers ( French being both their language and internationally used - see lingua franca ) in a number of European cities covering political news in France and Europe . Read by the European elite , these papers were known in France as the " foreign gazettes " ( fr. gazettes étrangères ) . 

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 The Netherlands , however , was critically weakened from World War II in Europe and did not return as a significant military force until early 1946 . The Japanese and members of the Allied forces reluctantly agreed to act as caretakers . As US forces were focusing on the Japanese home islands , the archipelago was put under the jurisdiction of British Admiral Earl Louis Mountbatten , the Supreme Allied Commander , South East Asia Command . Allied enclaves already existed in Kalimantan ( Indonesian Borneo ) , Morotai ( Maluku ) and parts of Irian Jaya ; Dutch administrators had already returned to these areas . In the Japanese navy areas , the arrival of Allied troops quickly prevented revolutionary activities where Australian troops , followed by Dutch troops and administrators , took the Japanese surrender ( except for Bali and Lombok ) . Due to the lack of strong resistance , two Australian Army divisions succeeded in occupying eastern Indonesia . 

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 = = = Etten , Drenthe and The Hague = = = 
