County of Holland

Kingdom of the Netherlands, 880 CE–1795. Draft, not yet reviewed

The County of Holland was a state of the Holy Roman Empire from its inception until 1433. From 1581 onward it was the leading province of the Dutch Republic until the Batavian Revolution in 1795. Its territory corresponds roughly with the current provinces of North Holland and South Holland in the Netherlands.

Seat of power: The Hague

No rulers documented for this era yet.

Culture

• Under the Burgundians, Holland's trade developed rapidly, especially in the areas of shipping and transport.
• In the early decades of the uprising, many refugees from Flanders and Brabant settled in the big cities of Holland, and the dialect of urban Holland later became the standard language of the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium.
• In a society dependent on trade, freedom and tolerance were considered essential.

Picture

The Binnenhof is a complex of buildings in the city centre of The Hague.

Image: Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0, file

Sources

• County of Holland (Wikipedia)
• County of Holland (Wikidata)
• About the picture (Wikipedia)

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