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Are the terms Holland and "the Netherlands" used interchangably when describing the country? For instance which of the following is correct? (probably both are) "The Shell sets have been released in Holland" "The Shell sets have been released in the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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Op een zekere dag, te weten Mon, 27 Sep 1999 05:07:55 GMT, klom "Sanjay D'Souza" <sds87@hotmail.com> in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) It's rather simple. There are two 'states' called 'zuid-holland' and 'noord-holland', (south and north (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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Hi Sanjay, Everyone is right they all use thee same grounds to tell you it. But Im to blame I think because I use them all the time, Holland is more short then the Netherlands and on the other hand I dont like the The in Netherlands. An translation (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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(...) Holland (...) I'm such an anal-fixated guy but llive outside of the Hollands :-) (see my other post). Eric Brok (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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N. Hoogerbrug wrote in message <37EF668D.1FB43EE3@k...are.nl>... (...) I agree with that. I read somewhere, that in adresses you should just say 'Netherlands' instead of 'The Netherlands', just like with 'United States (of America)'. This is (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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