Haarlem, capital of the province of North Holland

10 December 2011 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  8 minutes

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Haarlem, in the past usually Harlem in English, is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland, the northern half of Holland, which at one time was the most powerful of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic. Haarlem lies in the northern part of the Randstad, the sixth-largest metropolitan area in Europe.   read more…

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