Talk:United Kingdom of the Netherlands

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United Kingdom of the Netherlands

I understand why the article is called this, but I think it's misleading. As far as I know, the "United Kingdom of the Netherlands" is a name only applied to this state after the fact. While it existed it was just called the "Kingdom of the Netherlands". At the time, there was no risk of confusion from this - the Netherlands was a term that applied to the whole reason, and that was, in fact, more particularly applied to the southern areas, which had been the Austrian Netherlands (while the Northern parts were, in English at least, usually called the United Provinces or Holland). I think that it's still useful to have a separate article for this, as it should be distinguished from the current Kingdom of the Netherlands in some way, but I think we should be more clear that this was not, in fact, a name actually used at the time. john 04:10 23 May 2003 (UTC)

German confederacy

The text at the image of the map states: "2 Duchy of Limburg (In the German Confederacy after 1839 as compensation for Waals-Luxemburg)", which strikes me as odd. I can't find any reference to this in the article on the Duchy of Limburg, nor in other articles. A link to an article which explains it in more detail might be adding value? effeietsanders 13:08, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Syntax on name

Dutch is extremely close to English, its no mistake it corresponds exactly to "united kingdom". The citation needed is extremely justified, and should probably be reverted to the better translation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.65.0.169 (talk) 23:57, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Name

I know the name is not official, but in Dutch it was referred to as "Koninkrijk der Verenigde Nederlanden", which translates better to "Kingdom of the United Netherlands". Gerard von Hebel (talk) 16:49, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]