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The province of Holland gave its name to a number of colonial settlements and regions that were called Nieuw Holland or New Holland. The largest was the island continent presently known as Australia : [ 3 ] New Holland was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Dirk Hartog as a Latin Nova Hollandia , and remained in ...
Holland is an upcoming American thriller film directed by Mimi Cave, written by Andrew Sodroski, and starring Nicole Kidman, Gael García Bernal and Matthew Macfadyen. It will premiere at the 2025 South by Southwest festival.
The County of Holland was a state of the Holy Roman Empire from its inception until 1433. From 1433 onward it was part of the Burgundian Netherlands, from 1482 part of the Habsburg Netherlands and from 1581 onward the leading province of the Dutch Republic until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.
In some languages, Holland is used as the formal name for the Netherlands. 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.
The most populous province is South Holland, with just over 3.8 million inhabitants as of January 2023, and also the most densely populated province with 1,410/km 2 (3,700/sq mi). [1] With 391,124 inhabitants, Zeeland has the smallest population.
America: The Motion Picture is a 2021 American comedy film directed by Matt Thompson and written by Dave Callaham, who both also produce. It stars Channing Tatum (also a producer), Jason Mantzoukas , Olivia Munn , Bobby Moynihan , Judy Greer , Will Forte , Raoul Max Trujillo , Killer Mike , Simon Pegg and Andy Samberg .
America Station was eventually demolished in 1970, although it has been immortalized by the 1993 album Station America by the local band Rowwen Hèze. In recent years, as peat extraction has declined surrounding America, reclaimed peatlands have been converted as holiday villages and bungalow resorts including Limburgse Peel and Het Meerdal ...
The subregions (Dutch: streek or landstreek (plural: (land)streken), literally translating to a combination of 'land/country area/region') are non-administrative area in the Netherlands that can be demarcated on grounds of cohesion with regards to culture or landscape.