![]() ![]() ![]() Today this refers specifically to people from the current provinces of North Holland and South Holland. The people of Holland are referred to as "Hollanders" in both Dutch and English. (This example of pars pro toto or synecdoche is similar to the tendency to refer to the United Kingdom as "England".) "Holland" is informally used in English and other languages, including sometimes the Dutch language itself, to mean the whole of the modern country of the Netherlands. The proper name of the area in both Dutch and English is "Holland". Popular, but incorrect etymology holds that Holland is derived from hol land ("hollow land") and was inspired by the low-lying geography of Holland. This spelling variation remained in use until around the 14th century, at which time the name stabilised as Holland (alternative spellings at the time were Hollant and Hollandt). Holland is derived from the Middle Dutch term holtland ("wooded land"). By this time, the inhabitants of Holland were referring to themselves as "Hollanders". The name Holland first appeared in sources in 866 for the region around Haarlem, and by 1064 was being used as the name of the entire county. Pliny the Elder (AD 23–79) referred to this region as the land between the Helinium and Flevo ("inter Helinium ac Flevum"), the names of the mouths into which the Rhine divided itself, the first discharging its waters in the Mosa in the neighbourhood of Brielle and the second into "the lakes of the north" (present IJsselmeer). 5.3 Holland's prominence in the United Provinces and Dutch Republic. ![]()
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