County of Holland | |||||||||
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| 1091/1190–1431/1795 | |||||||||
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| Motto: "Vigilate Deo confidentes" (Latin) "Watch, trusting in God" | |||||||||
.svg) The County of Holland around 1350. | |||||||||
| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire part of the Burgundian Netherlands (1433–1482) part of the Habsburg Netherlands (1482–1581) part of the Dutch Republic (1581–1795) | ||||||||
| Capital | The Hague | ||||||||
| Common languages | Old Frisian Old Dutch Middle Dutch Dutch | ||||||||
| Religion | Catholic Church Dutch Reformed | ||||||||
| Government | Feudal monarchy | ||||||||
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• 880–896 | Gerolf (first) | ||||||||
• 1555–1581 | Phillip II (last) | ||||||||
| Stadtholder | |||||||||
• 1433–1440 | Hugo (first) | ||||||||
• 1672–1702 | William III (last) | ||||||||
| Legislature | States | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages, Renaissance, Modern | ||||||||
• Established | 11th century | ||||||||
| 26 July 1581 | |||||||||
| 18 January 1795 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | 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 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795. 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 the first Holy Roman county in the area to reach the level of economic, cultural, military, and technological development it did, having had time to undergo this development before the area became classed as a county.[1]
- ^ Rietbergen, P. J. A. N. (2000). A Short History of the Netherlands: From Prehistory to the Present Day (4th ed.). Amersfoort: Bekking. pp. 35–36. ISBN 90-6109-440-2. OCLC 52849131.