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Philip of Burgundy began to bring some semblance of unification to the Low Countries (the region which roughly translates to the Netherlands and Belgium) in the 1420s.
It is true that from the earliest times she was also known as Juliana , and all variants of this great Roman clan name have always been popular, from a former Queen of the Netherlands to the delicious Julienne soup, named after a female cook.
In the 20 th century, castration has been practiced in the Netherlands, Germany, Estonia, Iceland, Switzerland, and Scandinavia for rape, pedophilia, and homosexuality.
Although William was murdered in 1584, his sons continued his work, and in 1648 the Treaties of The Hague and Westphalia saw the creation of the independent State of the Netherlands, whose boundaries were very much as they are today.
“The literature is highly confusing—we need to clarify our terminology,” comments Rolf Hoekstra, a geneticist at the University of Waageningen in the Netherlands.