includes photos from my netherlands trip as well as periodic news updates
Monday, November 29, 2021
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"Dutch government ditches Holland to rebrand as the Netherlands | Netherlands | "
"North and South Holland are provinces on the western coast of the Netherlands. From the 10th to the 16th century, Holland was one political unified entity and ruled by the counts of Holland.
By the 17th century it was the dominant part of what was then the Dutch Republic. The kingdom of the Netherlands, from the Dutch Neder-landen, meaning low countries, emerged out of the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815..."
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