What is Netherlands Antilles?
[[File:LocationNetherlandsAntillesWithAruba.png|thumbnail|Location of the Netherlands Antilles]] [[File:Nt-map.png|thumbnail|Map of the Netherlands Antilles]] The '''Netherlands Antilles''' was a country within the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]. The country was originally a group of six [[island]]s in the [[Caribbean Sea]]. Some were discovered in 1493 by [[Christopher Columbus]], and some were discovered in 1499 by [[Alonso de Ojeda]]. [[Aruba]], [[Bonaire]] and [[Curaçao]] are part of the [[Leeward Islands]]. They are near [[Venezuela]]. [[Saint Martin]], [[Sint Eustatius]], and [[Saba]] are part of the [[Windward Islands]]. They are near [[Puerto Rico]] and the [[Virgin Islands]]. Of these, the island Sint Maarten is in fact part of two countries: the northern part belongs to France (as [[Saint Martin (France)|Saint Martin]]), but the southern part is Dutch (as [[Saint Martin (Netherlands)|Sint Maarten]]). Aruba left the Netherlands Antilles in 1986. When Curaçao and Sint Maarten did the same thing on 10 October 2010, the country no longer existed. The remaining '''BES Islands''' of '''B'''onaire, Sint '''E'''ustatius and '''S'''aba now belong to the [[Netherlands]] and are called the [[Dutch Caribbean]] islands. Because the Netherlands Antilles was a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, [[Beatrix of the Netherlands|Queen Beatrix]] of the Netherlands proper was also the Queen of the Netherlands Antilles, but the islands' residents had a government of their own. Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten are now separate countries within the Kingdom. All of these places still have [[Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands|King Willem-Alexander]] as their monarch today. The last [[Prime Minister]] of the Netherlands Antilles was [[Emily de Jongh-Elhage]]. The last [[Governor]] was [[Frits Goedgedrag]], who is since the 10 October 2010 the first Governor of Curaçao. ==Other websites== {{commons category|Flags of the Netherlands Antilles}} *[http://www.wdl.org/en/item/4393/ Method of Securing the Ports and Populations o