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Why are the Dutch known also as Hollanders and Netherlanders ? Is there any difference between the names?

gregcropper Sat 21/06/08 21:52

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delboy3
Sat 21/06/08
21:53

Holland is part of the Netherlands

spudqueen
Sun 22/06/08
18:29

It's a bit like the difference between England and Britain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland

Seafarer1966
Thurs 26/06/08
16:38

The word nether is an old world for low...Netherlands....Lowlands. Most of Holland is below sea level...hence the dykes (not shaven headed monster beasts wearing dungarees, DM boots and licking their eyebrows, but linear earth mounds to keep the sea out).

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