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The counts of Holland ruled over the County of Holland in the Low Countries between the 10th and the 16th century. The Frisian origins [ edit ] While the Frisian kingdom had comprised most of the present day Netherlands, the later province of Friesland in the Netherlands was much reduced.
The County of Holland was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and from 1433 part of the Burgundian Netherlands, from 1482 part of the Habsburg Netherlands and from 1581 onward the leading province of the Dutch Republic, of which it remained a part until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.
The counts of Holland ruled over the County of Holland in the Low Countries between the 10th and the 16th century. There was a war of succession between uncle ( John III, Duke of Bavaria) and niece ( Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut ).
Floris V was the count of Holland (1256–96) and Zeeland, son of the German king William of Holland. Under him, the territory of Holland greatly expanded and prospered. Floris succeeded his father as count of Holland when he was less than two years old and did not come of age until 1266.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
However, Holland is a region within the Netherlands that consists of the two provinces of North and South Holland. Formerly these were a single province, and earlier the County of Holland , which included parts of present-day Utrecht .
In 1064, or earlier, the Count of Holland built a tower, or thure, at the trecht, or crossing, at the east end of the Merwede, The name thurtrecht or the tower-ferry, was in time shortened to what it is now, Dordrecht. Many Dutchmen condense the name still further and call it Dort.
Holland is a region in the central-western part of The Netherlands. It originated in the early twelfth century as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the Count of Holland, and later became the dominant province of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces (1581–1795).
