Subject: Re: NL-enclave in Canada! -&gt; Amsterdam<br/>
Date: Feb 15, 2003 @ 18:43<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk &lt;smaardijk@yahoo.com&gt; (&quot;Peter Smaardijk &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-731347120">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;anorak222 &lt;listen@w...&gt;&quot; <br/>
&lt;listen@w...&gt; wrote<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
 </span></blockquote>(...)In 1990, reunification was achieved, and since that time Berlin <br/>
was &quot;capital&quot;  by law. The seat of government still remained in Bonn. <br/>
Only in 1998 did they move to Berlin.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; A similar example, where this distinction has been permanent for I-<br/>
 </span></blockquote>don&#39;t-know-how-long, is Holland. &quot;Capital&quot; is Amsterdam (seat of the <br/>
Queen, but not much else), but &quot;seat of government&quot; (where all the <br/>
real politics take place) is Den Haag. And I believe Australia is <br/>
similar.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>True, except for the fact that the Queen doesn&#39;t live in Amsterdam. <br/>
She lives in The Hague. But this has been different for the last <br/>
three queens (Wilhelmina - Apeldoorn, Juliana - Soestdijk (the part <br/>
of that village in Baarn municipality), Beatrix - The Hague). So that <br/>
doesn&#39;t play a part in it.<br/>
<br/>
No, Amsterdam is just capital by law (the constitution - so that <br/>
should be since the first constitution we had. That was in 1814). And <br/>
not really explicitely either, but as the place where every new king <br/>
or queen will be coronated, and therefore called the capital. But all <br/>
the &quot;real politics&quot;, as you have pointed out, is happening in The <br/>
Hague, and this has a very long tradition indeed.<br/>
<br/>
See <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/uk/intro/gesch4.html">http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/uk/intro/gesch4.html</a> , &quot;The <br/>
Capital of Amsterdam&quot;.<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.<br/>
<br/>
PS By Holland you mean the Netherlands of course. Note that Amsterdam <br/>
isn&#39;t a provincial capital: the capital of the province of North <br/>
Holland, the one in which Amsterdam is situated, is Haarlem.</div>