Holland Definition

Holland Sentence Examples

• The king's attitude secured for him the good will and affection of a people, loyal by tradition to the house of Orange, and the revolutionary disturbances of 1848 found no echo in Holland.

• In 1254 it received a charter from William II., count of Holland, similar to that of Haarlem, but in the 15th century duke Philip the Good of Burgundy made the impoverishment of the town, due to ill-government, the excuse for establishing an oligarchical regime, by charters of 1436 and 1437.

• This was specially true of the Reformers in Switzerland, France, Scotland, Holland and in some parts of Germany.

• Its constitution has spread to Holland, Scotland (Ireland, England), and to the great American (and Colonial) churches.

• In 1574 the first provincial synod of Holland and Zealand was held, but William of Orange would not allow any action to be taken independently of the state.