The Dutch obsession with the colour orange.
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The association comes from the House of Orange, historical rulers of Holland. They took their name from the town of Orange, which was called “Arausio” in Latin. The name gradually turned into “Auranche” in the local dialect, which then got confused or conflated with the word “orange” (which comes from the Arabic word *naranj*).
William of Orange, the progenitor of the royal house (and who eventually became King William III of England), was a Protestant, and so the colour orange has been associated with protestantism and the Netherlands ever since.
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