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| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Fixed. There's no orange in the Dutch flag. The colour comes from their royal family :p
ps.: Incidentally, the Dutch anthem has something about killing the Spanish and that's sure going to make the anthem singing nonsense before the game all the more amusing tomorrow :D |
it actually was originally in their flag, because of the royal family, but they took it out because, as the state with the largest fleet in the 1500s the salt from the sea would fade their flag from orange to yellow and they were mocked because of it, so they changed it to red which doesn't fade...
also, the dutch national anthem actually is about being faithful to the spanish king :(
were a possesion of the spanish empire pre 1300s (very roughly) |
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