Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands

MONARCHY

Monarchy: translation

Louis Napoleon, the brother of the French emperor Napoleon I, was the first and only king of the Kingdom of Holland (1806–1810) until its annexation to the French Empire. During the Congress of Vienna in 1814–1815, it was decided that the Nether lands, again independent since December 1813, would be enlarged with the former Austrian, or Southern, Netherlands. The sovereign of the Northern Netherlands, William, was designated king. William I preferred a strong personal reign. Parliamentary influ ence was only marginal under the constitution of 1815. The king governed his people as an “enlightened despot,” yet with great en thusiasm and energy, particularly stimulating trade, industry, and colonial exploitation.In 1839, he reluctantly accepted the secession of the Southern Netherlands as the independent state of Belgium. In 1848, his son William II had to accept a liberal constitution. King William III, a conservative and unimaginative person, could only reluctantly accept this curtailment of royal power. After the po litical crises of 1866–1868, the monarchy assumed a constitutional parliamentary character: the king could not retain a minister against the will of the majority in Parliament. After the death of his wife, Queen Sophia (1818–1877), and the early deaths of two of his three sons, William III in 1879 married the young Princess Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont (1858–1934).
Their only daughter, Wilhelmina, ultimately succeeded William III. She had a strong personality and during her long reign from 1898 to 1948 proved capable of steering the monarchy through several storms. She accepted the process of political democratization, in cluding universal suffragein 1917. In 1918, an attempt at social rev olution by the leader of the Social Democrats, Pieter Jelles Troel stra, failed, owing to massive loyalty of the people to the monarchy. The fact that the royal family left the country for England after the German invasion of the Netherlands during World WarII has been criticized, but most people think it was wiser that the monarchy not serve as a hostage in Nazi hands.
Queen Juliana and her daughter Queen Beatrix have, by their open and flexible attitude toward fundamental changes in Dutch so ciety and politics, secured the popularity of the monarchy.

  1. monarchy—monarchy translation nounADJECTIVE strong weak absolute constitutional parliamentary hereditary VERB MONARCHY establish set up have The country still has a s...Collocations dictionary
  2. monarchy—monarchy bersetzung monarchy Monarchie f...Englisch-Deutsch Worterbuch gesetz
  3. monarchy—Monarchy translationHouse of Savoy One of Europes oldest ruling families the lineage of the dukes of Savoy stretches back to the Middle Ages. Though theoretically subject...Historical Dictionary of modern Italy
  4. monarchy—monarchy translationSynonyms and related wordsCaesarism Stalinism absolute monarchy absolutism aristocracy autarchy authoritarianism autocracy autonomy benevolent despoti...Moby Thesaurus
  5. monarchy—[mnk]монархия...Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь
  6. monarchy—монархия...Англо-русский онлайн словарь
  7. monarchy—монархия...Англо-русский онлайн словарь
  8. monarchy—n монархия...Англо-русский словарь Лингвистика-98
  9. monarchy—monarchy [mnk] nu монархия...Англо-русский словарь Мюллера
  10. monarchy—сущ. монархия to establish set up a monarchy установить монархию to overthrow a monarchy свергнуть монархию constitutional monarchy конституционная монархия hereditary...Англо-русский словарь общей лексики
  11. monarchy—nмонархия форма государственной власти передающаяся по наследству.strong монархия форма государственной власти передающаяся по наследству....Англо-русский словарь по социологии
  12. monarchy—n. монархия...Англо-русский словарь редакция bed
  13. monarchy—сущ.emмонархия форма государственной власти передающаяся по наследству....Англо-русский социологический словарь
  14. monarchy—сущ. пол. монархияа форма правления при которой верховная власть в государстве юридически сосредоточена в руках единоличного главы государства в соответствии с его правом...Англо-русский экономический словарь
  15. monarchy—монархия absolute monarchy constitutional monarchy dual monarchy hereditary monarchy limited monarchy...Англо-русский юридический словарь
  16. monarchy—n...Англо-украинский словарь
  17. monarchy—n монархя absolute абсолютна монархя constitutional конституцйна монархя dual дуалстична монархя дводина монархя hereditary спадкова монархя limited обмежена мон...Англо-український дипломатичний словник
  18. monarchy—монархя...Англо-український словник
  19. monarchy—n монархя....Англо-український словник Балла М.І.
  20. monarchy—[mnk] nabsolute [constitutional limited] monarchy абсолютная [конституционная ограниченная] монархияhereditary monarchy наследственная монархияto set up to establish a ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
  21. monarchy—monarchy [mnk] ni монархия absolute [constitutional limited] абсолютная [конституционная ограниченная] монархия hereditary наследственная монархия to set up to establ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь II
  22. monarchy—mnk n монархия absolute абсолютная конституционная ограниченная монархия hereditary наследственная монархия to set up to establish a установить монархию to over...Новый большой англо-русский словарь под общим руководством акад. Ю.Д. Апресяна