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Hace 3 días · Netherlands, country located in northwestern Europe, also known as Holland. “Netherlands” means low-lying country; the name Holland (from Houtland, or “Wooded Land”) was originally given to one of the medieval cores of what later became the modern state and is still used for 2 of its 12 provinces (Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland).
Hace 4 días · Philip’s contemporaries, who were all clerics, found him to be lazy, fat and sensual. However, their opinions of him derived from the scandal when he set aside his wife Bertha of Holland and began his liaison with Bertrada of Montfort, a union that most clergymen and the papacy never recognised as valid (pp. 118–21).
Hace 3 días · Joanna of Flanders ( c. 1295 – September 1374) was Duchess of Brittany by her marriage to John of Montfort. Much of her life was taken up in defense of the rights of her husband and, later, son to the dukedom, which was challenged by the House of Blois during the War of the Breton Succession. Known for her fiery personality, Joanna led the ...
Hace 2 días · Click on the map for a fullscreen view. Amsterdam ( / ˈæmstərdæm / AM-stər-dam, UK also / ˌæmstərˈdæm / AM-stər-DAM, [10] [11] Dutch: [ˌɑmstərˈdɑm] ⓘ; literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel ") is the capital [a] and most populated city of the Netherlands. It has a population of 921,402 [12] within the city proper, 1,457,018 ...
Hace 1 día · The Netherlands is the 67th most populated country in the world. As of January 2023, the Netherlands has a population of 17,821,419. [1] Between 1900 and 1950 the population almost doubled from 5.14 to 10.11 million people.
Hace 5 días · Leiden, gemeente (municipality), western Netherlands. It lies at the confluence of the Oude Rijn and Nieuwe Rijn (Old Rhine and New Rhine) rivers, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of The Hague and 5 miles (8 km) inland from the North Sea. First mentioned in 922 as a holding of Utrecht diocese, Leiden.
Hace 2 días · Map of the week – Holland in 1832. This map of Holland appeared in an English atlas in 1832. This is two years after the Southern Netherlands split off to found the independent country of Belgium in 1830, but seven years before the Dutch government acknowledged the loss of these provinces and recognized Belgium as an independent country in 1839.
