Holland occurs as region in the central-american section of the Netherlands. Holland occurs as previous county of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the Count of Holland, and late a leading member of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden, 1581–1795). North Holland and South Holland lie along the western coast of the Netherlands.

A vicinity is now divided between 2 provinces of the Netherlands: North Holland (Noord-Holland) and South Holland (Zuid-Holland) that were created in 1840. Two or three regions that were historically Hollandic became section of more provinces following of reforms in a period of the French occupation (1795-1813): Willemstad and surroundings, Biesbosch and the Land of Altena became part of North Brabant. Within 1940, after a German occupation of the Netherlands, the islands of Vlieland and Terschelling went to Friesland. This was non changed back when Globe War II. Around 1950, a island of Urk went to Overijssel (in 1986 to Flevoland). Extra recent territorial changes come a transport of Oudewater, Woerden and Vianen from South Holland to the province of Utrecht, in 1970, 1989 & 2002 severally.

A title Holland therein & a more entries on this home finally stem from either holt land ("wooded land"). The popular, however wrong, fake etymology holds that it is from either hol land ("hollow land"), divine per great-lying geographics of two a Dutch & a English vicinity (Holland, Lincolnshire).

A province of Holl& was a ethnic, political and economic center of the United Provinces. A greatest cities of a provinces were placed inside the province of Holland like Amsterdam (the capital), Rotterdam, Leiden, the Hague (the seat of government), Delft and Haarlem. from either either either a low larboard cities of Holl&, Dutch merchandiser sailed to & from destinations tons above Europe, & merchandiser from completely on top Europe gathered to trade the storage warehouse of Amsterdam and more short term trading cities of Holland. Following, numbers of Europeans heard of the United Provinces foremost when "Holland" like than "Republic of the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands". This tradition continues to this day.

So, possibly though these are officially wrong, a word Holland is typically utilized by each Dutch (speaking) & foreign humans to denote a entire Netherlands, even because "The Netherlands" ("Nederland" around Dutch) is further cumbersome. (Farther condition is induced after on to Holland inside Greek, as A Netherlands come there known as Ολλανδια (Ollandia), which is as well a Greek title for Holland). Population from either a more provinces of the Netherlands (like Friesland, Groningen, North Brabant, Zeeland etc.) are typically pained whenever known as "Hollanders".

For the short period (1806–1810), notwithstanding, there was a Napoleonic Kingdom of Holland, which did encompass large area of the Netherlands.

History
County of Holland
Holland arose as a county of the Holy Roman Empire in the 9th century. A counts of Holland were also numbers of Hainaut, Flanders and Zeeland for several periods in the 13th-15th century. Inside 1432, Holland became part of the Burgundian Netherlands, and when 1477 of the Habsburg Seventeen Provinces.

United Provinces
In the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648), the northern Dutch provinces, including Holland, succesfully broke out of Habsburg-Spanish rule. Holl& became a virtually all large and prosperous a portion of the United Provinces.

After 1795
A formation of the Batavian Republic, inspired by the French revolution, led to the extra centralised government. A dominance of Holland was reduced by an administrative reform inside 1798, in which its territory was divided across many departments: Amstel, Delf, Texel, & (a share of) Schelde nut Maas. When you took a French occupation (1810-1813), Holland was divided across a départements Zuyderzée and Bouches-de-la-Meuse. Fallowing 1813, Holland was restored as a province of the Netherlands. It was divided into a present provinces North Holland and South Holland in 1840.