Orange - History and Politics

History and Politics

  • Orange Democratic Movement, a political party in Kenya
  • Orange Revolution, a series of protests and political events in Ukraine
  • Principality of Orange (1163–1713), a feudal state in Provence region of what is now the republic of France
    • Prince of Orange a title of nobility, originally associated with the Principality of Orange
      • House of Orange-Nassau, the royal family of the Netherlands that evolved from one of the Princes of Orange
        • William the Silent (1533–1584), one of the princes of Orange; member of the House of Orange-Nassau; founder of the Dutch nation
        • William III of Orange, ruler of England and stadtholder of the Dutch republic
          • Orange Institution (commonly named Orange Order), a British Protestant organization whose members are known as Orangemen
            • Independent Orange Order, an offshoot of the Orange Institution
  • War of the Oranges, a brief 1801 conflict between the Kingdom of Portugal and the joint forces of Spain and Napoleonic France
  • War Plan Orange, a series of United States war plans

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