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Road Trips. 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 Earlier this year, the Dutch tourist board, whose website address is Holland.
As many as 42 million people are forecast to visit the country annually by , up from 18 million in Within the Holy Roman Empire, the word Netherlands was used to describe people from the low-lying nether region land. The term was so widely used that when they became a formal, separate country in , they became the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Over time, Holland , among English speakers, came to apply to the entire country, though it only refers to two provinces—the coastal North and South Holland—in the Netherlands today. Got all that? In some cases, the demonym preceded the place name. For example, Finland is the place where the Finns live, just as Germany is the place where the Germans live. The people came before the official government and place name.
Parts of what we call Germany was called Prussia until In English we denote place of origin by suffixes. The most common suffixes that denote place are: - a n Chicagoan , -er New Yorker , -ese Chinese , -ian Norwegian , and -ish English.
Where did these suffixes come form? Latin, of course.
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