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Netherlands
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With the mouths of the Meuse and the Rhine, on the littoral of the North Sea, the Netherlands occupy a privileged position in Europe of the North-West. To the XVII E century, this small State of 33 940 km2, forming the United Provinces then, was already a large hearth of trade, finance and Article Longtemps subjected to foreign dominations, the Netherlands, old great power maritime and colonial, knew to operate an economic transfer intelligent while redeploying in oil industry and harbor, thus compensating for the loss of the captive market which its old possessions constituted.