Holland and the Netherlands are NOT the same

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• Caneles

  Secede and complain?

  March 2012

• kkkoen

  The "Netherlands" you speak of (to prevent confusion usually called Low Countries) covered all of Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of France and Germany. Nation-building has taken place since and borders have shifted, there's no point in complaining about what eventually ended still being the "Netherlands" as a state. The point is that the country's name actually is Netherlands, not Holland. I'm sorry, but you don't get to secede and then complain about the country's name.

  February 2012

• Caneles

  If we are going to be precise, historically the term Netherlands is also not really correct either, since it includes all the "Lage Landen", including Flanders. This name is used in plural also in other languages: NetherlandS, PayS-bas. Flemish people will say that they speak "Nederlands" but object to speaking "Hollands". Technically the Dutch thus live in a country with one name which is too big and one which is too small.

  February 2012

• marcootjemusic

  Ik woon en geboren in Noord- Brabant en vind het ook super irritant als mensen het opeens Holland gaan noemen!

  January 2012

• Giltoniel

  Join )) http://www.lastfm.ru/group/Within+Temptation+OFFICIAL

  November 2011

• bertrand-escaff

  Hi ! Sorry to have confused both, I must have had smoken a poisoned cigarette... By the way, if foreigners are welcome, is it about foreigners of Netherlands, or of Holland ? See you... Cheers

  November 2011

• omskoviet

  De echte vijande da zijn de marresjoosee, da zijn de Hollanders.

  October 2011

• criminal_manboy

  Haha, I like this group ;p ^^

  October 2011

• kkkoen

  Welcome to Brabant :)

  July 2011

• FaustFuerFaust

  I just realised it's spelt Noord-Brabant. I am sorry.

  July 2011

• FaustFuerFaust

  Heh. I'll soon spend a semester in the Netherlands in Nordbrabaant and am already teaching myself always to say Netherlands and NOT Holland. Being from Germany, the latter is far more common but to avoid any hostilities I better get used to the correct name.

  July 2011

• HaeresiarchSr

  @ Jazai: You should read better. That page you're linking to clearly states that Amsterdam is the capital. In fact, it even states that 3 separate times and you still think that you're proving an opposite point by linking to that?

  July 2011

• ASTOKALOSOU

  Another example: "Macedonia" and "Macedonians" who are really Slavs, and their country is only the northern part of the province of Macedonia, that belong to Greece.

  July 2011

• Elisisciousz

  ♥♥♥

  May 2011

• CGholy

  Thanks.

  April 2011

• LaxATivvz

  also: England and the UK are NOT the same, same mistake, although the one at this page is more common

  February 2011

• LaxATivvz

  even i know this, and i'm a 14 year old Scottish guy.

  February 2011

• Darmschurft

  Nu we 666 leden hebben zou ik de boel eigenlijk op slot moeten zetten.

  January 2011

• Jgirl207

  Now all that's left is proving to some in the world that we also wear jeans and that we don't live in windmills =)

  January 2011

• backslashh

  Frisians make such a big deal of it.. I disagree with "Holland" though.. But Frisian folk would even annihilate him if he used "Netherlands"...

  January 2011