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Why is that European country called both The Netherlands and Holland, and the people called Dutch?

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Why is that European country called both The Netherlands and Holland, and the people called Dutch?

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The Dutch actually call their country ‘Nederland,’ their language ‘Nederlands,’ and themselves ‘Nederlanders.’ As someone said before, Holland is only one part of the country. Wikipedia says: “The Netherlands is often called Holland. This is formally incorrect as North and South Holland in the western Netherlands are only two of the country’s twelve provinces. Still, many Dutch people colloquially refer to their country as Holland in this way, as a synecdoche.” From Wikipedia (concerning the English name of the language): “In English the language of the people from the Netherlands and Flanders is referred to as Dutch; or sometimes as Netherlandic, a term with multiple meanings. ‘Dutch’ as a word is derived from Middle Dutch duutsch, dÅ«tsch and applied originally to continental Germanic speakers, be it of Dutch or German (cf. Pennsylvania Dutch). By 1600, it had come to be used exclusively for the language (spoken in Flanders and the current Netherlands) and the people of the Dutch (onl

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