Leiden University was founded in 1575 and is the oldest university in the Netherlands. The university has seven faculties (six in Leiden and one in The Hague), with 33.701 students enrolled in 2025. Every resident of Leiden has at some point...
Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796 - 1866) was sent as a physician by the Dutch government to the Dutch trading post of Deshima in Japan in 1823 with the special assignment of gathering as much information as possible about the mysterious country. That is...
On the occasion of the Year of the Botanical Gardens (led by the Dutch Association of Botanical Gardens), the sheet Botanical Gardens in the Netherlands will be issued on April 24, 2017, featuring ten different stamps depicting plants and trees. Originally were...
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