Why are people from Netherland 'Dutch'?

Within the field of ethnography, it is argued that the Dutch-speaking populations of the Netherlands and Belgium have a number of common characteristics, with ...

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The Dutch are the people who live in the Netherlands, or those that come from the Netherlands. Often the Netherlands is called Holland.

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Ethnic groups. Popular belief holds that the Dutch are a mixture of Frisians, Saxons, and Franks.

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Dutch used to be a generic term used in English to refer to the various Germanic language speakers in what's now the Netherlands, Belgium, and ...

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7 Sept 2025 — The term Dutch predates the Netherlands. It originates from the Middle Ages when the language spoken by the common people in the region was referred to as ...

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25 Feb 2022 — The Dutch people are from the Netherlands. As unrelated as that may seem, there is a whole history to it. Why are Dutch people called Dutch?

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16 Dec 2011 — English-speaking people used the word Dutch to describe people from both the Netherlands and Germany, and now just the Netherlands today.

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So the people living in the Netherlands are called “the Dutch” and they speak Dutch and have Dutch habits etc. In the Dutch language it goes ...

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