page_title: Principality of Orange
section_title: Later uses
hierarchical_section_title: Principality of Orange / Later uses
caption_attribution_description: English: Women dressed in orange during Queen's Day in the Netherlands. People dressed in orange in Amsterdam during Queen's Day in 2007. Koninginnedag 2007 in the Jordaan in Amsterdam. A groups singing the most famous Jordaan-song 'Geef mij maar Amsterdam' ('Just give me Amsterdam' or thereabouts). فارسی: مردم هلند با پوشش نارنجی رنگ در روز ملکه سال ۲۰۰۷ میلادی.
context_page_description: The Principality of Orange was, from 1163 to 1713, a feudal state in Provence, in the south of modern-day France, on the east bank of the river Rhone, north of the city of Avignon, and surrounded by the independent papal state of Comtat Venaissin.
  It was constituted in 1163, when Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I elevated the Burgundian County of Orange to a sovereign principality within the Empire. The principality became part of the scattered holdings of the house of Orange-Nassau from the time that William the Silent inherited the title of Prince of Orange from his cousin in 1544, until it was finally ceded to France in 1713 under the Treaty of Utrecht. Although permanently lost by the Nassaus then, this fief gave its name to the extant Royal House of the Netherlands. The area of the principality was approximately 12 miles long by 9 miles wide, or 108 square miles.
context_section_description: Due to its connection with the Dutch royal family, Orange gave its name to other Dutch-influenced parts of the world, such as the Orange River and the Orange Free State in South Africa, and Orange County in the U.S. state of New York. The town of Orange, Connecticut is named after the principality.
  The orange portion of the flag of Ireland, invented in 1848, represents Irish Protestants, who were grateful for their rescue by William III of England ("William of Orange") in 1689–1691.  The flag of South Africa from 1928 to 1994 had an orange upper stripe and was very similar to the old Dutch flag, also called Prince's Flag, because it was inspired by the history of the Afrikaners, who are chiefly of Dutch descent.
  The flag of New York City and the flag of Albany, New York (which was originally known as Fort Orange) also each have an orange stripe to reflect the Dutch origins of those cities. In turn, orange is included in the team colors of the New York Mets, the New York Knicks, and the New York Islanders. It is also a team color of the San Francisco Giants, which was a New York team until 1957.
  The color orange is still the national color of the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Dutch flag originally had an orange stripe instead of a red, and today an orange pennant is still flown above the flag on Koningsdag.  Dutch national sports teams usually compete in orange, and a wide variety of orange-colored items are displayed by Dutch people on occasions of national pride or festivity.
caption: People dressed in orange in Amsterdam during Queen's Day in 2007
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