Holland is probably from the Old Dutch holt lant, literally "wood land". Another early usage of the word is a deed dated 1083 in which Dirk V used the term "Count of Holland" for himself. ![]() Before 1101, sources talk about Frisian counts, but in this year Floris II, Count of Holland, is mentioned as Florentius comes de Hollant (Floris, Count of Holland). The oldest sources refer to the not clearly defined county as Frisia, west of the Vlie (also known as West Frisia). The County of Holland was the first Holy Roman county in the area to develop. The territory of the County of Holland corresponds roughly with the current provinces of North Holland and South Holland in the Netherlands. ![]() 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.
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