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The Parts of Holland is a historical division of Lincolnshire, England, encompassing the south-east of the county.[1] The name is still recognised locally and survives in the district of South Holland.
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Welcome to the Great nation of Holland: where
the tulips grow, the windmills turn, the breakfast
is chocolatey, the people industrious, and
the sea tries to drown it all.
Except, this country isn't Holland. It's time
for:
The Difference Between Holland, the Netherlands
(and a whole lot more)
The correct name for this tulip growing, windmill
building hagelslag eating, container ship
moving, ocean conquering nation is the Netherlands.
But confusion is understandable -- the general
region been renamed a lot over a thousand
including as: The Dutch Republic, The United
States of Belgium, and The Kingdom of Hollande
But it's not just history that makes this
country's name confusing because the Netherlands
is divided into twelve provinces:
* Groningen
* Drenthe
* Overijssel
* Gelderland
* Limburg
* Brabant
* Zeeland (Which, by the way, is the Zeeland
that makes this Zeeland, new)
* Friesland (With adorable little hearts on
its flag)
* Flevoland
* Utrecht, and here's the confusion:
* Noord (North) Holland and
* Zuid (South) Holland
These provinces make calling the Netherlands
'Holland' like calling the United States 'Dakota'.
Though unlike the Dakotas, which are mostly
empty, save for the occasional Jackalope,
the two Hollands are the most populated provinces
and have some of the biggest attractions like,
Amsterdam and Keukenhof.
Chances are if it's Dutch, and you've heard
of it, it's in one of the Hollands.
Even the government's travel website for the
country is Holland.com -- officially because
it sounds friendlier, but unofficially it's
probably what people are actually searching
for.
Confusion continues because: People who live
in the Hollands are called Hollanders, but
all citizens of the Netherlands are called
Dutch as is their language. But in Dutch they
say: Nederlands sprekende Nederlanders in
Nederland which sounds like they'd rather
we call them Netherlanders speaking Netherlandish.
Meanwhile, next door in Germany, they're Deutsche
sprechen Deutsch in Deutschland. Which sounds
like they'd rather be called Dutch.
This linguistic confusion is why Americans
call the Pennsylvania Dutch Dutch even though
they're Germans.
To review: this country is the Netherlands,
its people are Dutch, they speak Dutch. There
is no country called Holland, but there are
provinces of North and South Holland.
Got it? Great, because it's about to get more
complicated.
The Netherlands is part of a Kingdom with
the same name: The Kingdom of the Netherlands
-- which is headed by the Dutch Royal Family.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands contains three
more countries and to find them we must sail
from the icy North Sea to the Caribbean and
Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten.
These are no territories, but self-governing
countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands
and as such they have their own governments,
and their own currencies.
Geography geek side note here:
While Aruba and Curaçao are islands, Sint
Maarten is just the Southern Half of a tiny
island also named Saint Martin the other half
of which is occupied by France and also named
Saint Martin. So despite being separated by
Belgium on the European map, The Kingdom of
the Netherlands and the French Republic share
a border on the other side of the world on
an island so nice they named it thrice.
But why does the Kingdom of the Netherlands
reach to the Caribbean anyway? Because, Empire.
In the 1600s the Dutch, always looking to
expand business, laid their hands on every
valuable port they could. For a time, America's
East Coast was 'New Netherland' with its capital
city of New Amsterdam. There was New Zealand,
as mentioned previously, and nearby, the king
of the islands, New Holland. Though the empire
is gone, these three Caribbean nations remain.
And while four countries in one kingdom, isn't
unheard of, it doesn't stop there, because
the country of the Netherlands, also extends
its borders to the Caribbean and three more
islands: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba.
These are not countries in a Kingdom, but
are cities of the Country of the Netherlands
and they look the part. Residents of these
far-flung cities vote in elections for the
Dutch government just as any Hollander would.
Though, weirdly, they don't belong to any
province and they don't use the Dutch currency
of Euros, they use Dollars instead. It's kind
of like if Hawaii wasn't a state, but technically
part of the District of Columbia, all the
while using the Yen.
These cities of the Country of the Netherlands
and these countries in the Kingdom of the
Netherlands, are together are known as the
Dutch Caribbean. And their citizens are Dutch
citizens. Which, because the Kingdom of the
Netherlands is a member of the European Union,
means these Dutch Caribbeans are also Europeans.
So in the end, there are 6 Caribbean islands,
four countries, twelve provinces, two Hollands,
two Netherlands and one kingdom, all Dutch.
Holland sign on display at the Museum of Lincolnshire Life with the Latin motto Labor Ipse Merces (Work is its own reward)
Parts of Holland was one of the three medieval divisions or 'Parts' of Lincolnshire (the other two being Lindsey and Kesteven) which had long had separate county administrations (quarter sessions). Under the Local Government Act 1888 it obtained a county council, which it retained until 1974. At that point the three county councils were abolished and Lincolnshire (minus the northern part of Lindsey, which formed part of Humberside) had a single county council for the first time.[2]
Before the changes of 1888, Holland had, since probably the tenth century, been divided into the three wapentakes of Elloe, Kirton and Skirbeck.[3]
Holland is all close to sea level, achieving a maximum altitude of about five metres (16 feet) on artificially raised river banks (levees). It therefore needed carefully managed drainage to maintain the very productive arable farmland which covered almost its entire extent. Consequently, a significant part of its drainage for arable use had to await the introduction of steam pumping. Before the mid-19th century, it was a much more pastoral area, used for fattening livestock brought in from Scotland and northern England before it was driven to market in places like London. Many of the country roads are still called droves.
There is a resemblance in landscape between the Parts of Holland and Holland, the region in the Netherlands, although their meanings are different. Holland in England means "land of the hill spurs", although hill spurs are hardly obvious, while the Dutch Holland is derived from the Old Dutch term holt-lant ("wooded land"). Both Hollands have landscapes that are low lying and both are known for tulip growing.[5]
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