North Holland

Proper noun

Meaning

North Holland

A province of the Netherlands.

Alternative names

North-Holland

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Examples

1840 to today After the Haarlemmermeer was drained in 1855 and turned into arable land, it was made part of North Holland. Source: Internet

Also in Proceedings IFIP Congress, Stockholm, North Holland Publishing Co., 1974, pp. 569–574. Source: Internet

During this period an area known as West Friesland (now part of North Holland) was conquered and integrated into Holland. Source: Internet

E. I. Rashba, Self-trapping of excitons, in: Excitons (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1982), p. 547. This means that spectral lines of free excitons and wide bands of self-trapped excitons can be seen simultaneously in absorption and luminescence spectra. Source: Internet

In Richard Nelson and Bela Balassa, eds., Economic Progress: Private Values and Public Policy (Essays in Honor of William Fellner), Amsterdam: North-Holland, 235-62. Source: Internet

North Holland makes up a single region of the International Organization for Standardization world region code system, having the code ISO 3166-2:NL -NH. Source: Internet

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