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The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
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Aruba
Dutch Caribbean island country
Aruba, officially the Country of Aruba, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the southern Caribbean Sea 29 kilometres (18 mi) north of the Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná and 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Curaçao. In 1986, Aruba became…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Netherlands Antilles
Caribbean constituent country of the Netherlands (1954–2010)
The Netherlands Antilles, also known as the Dutch Antilles, was a constituent Caribbean country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands consisting of the islands of Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten in the Lesser Antilles, and Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire in the Leeward Antilles.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)