Are carrots orange because of a Dutch revolutionary?

[admin]

No, but the crown did popularize the orange carrot.

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[David Thomas]

More importantly, William of Orange came from Orange in the South of France. The place name Orange has nothing to do with the colour orange, it comes from the name of a Celtic god Arausio after whom the town was named. The word for the colour and fruit 'orange' has a different origin, coming from a Dravidian language, possibly Tamil. The colour orange came to be associated with the House of Orange Nassau in the seventeenth century in a cating reference. The word Orange was used to describe the fruit in English from the thirteenth century, but it was not until the early sixteenth that the word was used to descibe a colour, until then the colour was referred to as 'yellow-red'.

 

[20Gnario]

Wrong! In 1500, the Netherlands were not an 'Spanish colony', but the head of these states were the house of Burgundy, after marriage of Philip 'the handsome', offspring of Maximilian von Hapsburg, to Jeanne 'the insane', daughter of 'Catholic kings' Fernando and Isabel, the head of all Burgundian states went to Charles, 'cesar Carlos', 1st in Spain, then elected for head of Holy German Empire as Charles V.
Upon his arrival to Spain, he was born in Gand, ignored Spanish, arrived to Spain along with a team of politicians he trusted, originating the so called 'Comuneros de Castilla' mutiny, as castilian nobility was apart from ruling and the corresponding revenues. The Burgundian approach to politics was maintaining local laws and authorities, just holding head of state. Burgundians came from Bornholm Island.
Felipe 2, born in Valladolid, followed Tzar Charles, but his animus was closer to the severe austerity of Castilians than to liberality of Flanders, causing misunderstandings leading to repression by Alba, an Italian town surname, also an small village in northern Castille. Blessings +