Holland!
The country of tulips, windmills, dijk (dike), City of Amsterdam, museums, trams, bicycles, canals, weed, "coffee shop", space cake, bong, the Red Light District, the VOC (Dutch East Indies Company)..the..ahem.. fabled "Flying Dutchman" ship, Rembrandt and van Gogh...and somehow despite all of these..we totally forgot to mention anything about Netherlands.
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| The Netherlands |
Time to get the facts right... ohhh.. and this is awesome as it was Madam herself in her defence said that it was her who showed me a youtube video on this Holland vs the Netherlands. I cant remember if she did (thank you for the gift of forgetfulness) until last night she showed me the video...which I've never seen it before (honest)..
Anyway, the gist of the video was this...
1. The Netherlands over has many names over its colourful history.. even one United States of Belgium and Kingdom of Holland etc etc..
2. Holland is not a country..but a province and there are two of them. North Holland and South Holland
3. Those in Holland (North and South) called themselves Hollanders while the rest are Dutch
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| North Holland |
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| South Holland |
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| North and South Holland in The Netherlands |
