Talk:United Kingdom of the Netherlands
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I understand why the article is called this, but I think it's misleading. As far as I know, the "United Kingdom of the Netherlands" is a name only applied to this state after the fact. While it existed it was just called the "Kingdom of the Netherlands". At the time, there was no risk of confusion from this - the Netherlands was a term that applied to the whole reason, and that was, in fact, more particularly applied to the southern areas, which had been the Austrian Netherlands (while the Northern parts were, in English at least, usually called the United Provinces or Holland). I think that it's still useful to have a separate article for this, as it should be distinguished from the current Kingdom of the Netherlands in some way, but I think we should be more clear that this was not, in fact, a name actually used at the time. john 04:10 23 May 2003 (UTC)
