Netherlands Antilles
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A Carribean island collection, the Netherlands Antilles form a country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. They currently consist of Curaçao, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba and St. Maarten. Curaçao has produced numerous baseball players who have starred in Hoofdklasse such as Diegomar Markwell and Johnny Balentina. Others such as Andruw Jones and Randall Simon have played in the major leagues. The country had the winning entry in the Little League World Series in 2004 and has provided a significant portion of the Dutch national teams. A treaty to disband The Netherlands Antilles was signed on December 15, 2008. After dissolution on 10th Ocotber 2010, the islands of Bonaire, Saba, and Saint Eustatius became special municipalities of the Netherlands proper, while Curaçao and Sint Maarten became constituent countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, along the lines of Aruba, which had separated from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986. .
