New Netherlands Wins Independence

Jasen777

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In my timeline (link in sig), the colony of New Amsterdam thrives and covers much of OTL U.S. New England and a chunk of the Midwest. After a Monarchy/Republic civil war in Netherlands won by the monarchy, pro-Republican New Netherlands declares and wins independence.

Now they want to change their name to get Netherlands out of it. So the floor is open for suggestions.
 
If you go on the Classical tour, you could use the Batavians (like Halcyon Dayz said) as in the Batavian republic or Batavia. You coulduse the Frisians (Frisia or something like that). These Dutch could still identify themselves with the Belgians, so you could even call the New Netherlands Belgium. Other groups that lived in the Netherlands were the Franks and the Saxons, but those are more often linked with other countries like France, Germany or England.
I am not certain how you Germany is called in German, but in theory you could call it something like Dietsland/Dutchland. Dutch/Deutch/Diets means something like "of the people" which would be a good name for a republic.
Alternatively you could call it after something American, "verenigde staten van Amerika" could work (Dutch translation of USA), perhaps you could name after the leader of the resistance (or an imprtant republican figure of the past, like Brutus). You could name it after some Indian tribe, Columbus, a river, the general name of America in your timeline etc.
 
I just typed in "Federal Republic of America" into Babelfish, set it to Dutch, and "Bondsrepubliek van America" is what came out.
 
I just typed in "Federal Republic of America" into Babelfish, set it to Dutch, and "Bondsrepubliek van America" is what came out.
It would.

But the word bondsrepubliek has a very modern feel to it.
(I'm not sure it existed prior to 1918. It's a germanism, i.e. it is a direct translation of a german word.)
In that period something like Bond van XXX Staten or Verenigde Provincieën van XXX would be more likely

Some Notes on Governments
New Netherlands (possible name-change pending) is a unitary republic with a relatively strong parliament.
So it isn't federal anyway.
 
They could name it after Hudson. He did explore the area around Manhattan (presumably the major city in New Netherlands) working for the VOC.

EDIT: Could also name it after Peter Minuit, who bought the island of Manhattan from the natives, or after Peter Stuyvesant, who was appointed governor in 1647.
 
It would.

But the word bondsrepubliek has a very modern feel to it.
(I'm not sure it existed prior to 1918. It's a germanism, i.e. it is a direct translation of a german word.)
In that period something like Bond van XXX Staten or Verenigde Provincieën van XXX would be more likely


So it isn't federal anyway.

Okay. What's the difference between a unitary and a federal republic?
 

Susano

Banned
I'm guessing that, in a federal republic, there are partially autonomous divisions (like U.S. states), but, in a unitary republic, there aren't.

Yepp. A Federal Republic is a republic that gives competences to lower, locally elected subentities (USA, Germany, etc.), whereas an unitery or centralist republic has a strict nationwide top-down hierarchy (France is usualyl the prime example)
 
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