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overrun by the Romans

At the beginning of our era, now about 2000 years ago, South Holland was already overrun by the Romans, they did not get any further than the Rhine, which flowed into the North Sea at Katwijk.
Everything north was reed and peat bog. Not accessible to Roman legions. You don’t notice this anymore when you travel from north to south, although tourists apparently prefer to stay in North Holland than in South Holland. But they may be entirely wrong in forgetting the pearls in this province. Zandvoort, for example, has a fantastic reputation, but it cannot in the least outweigh the charm and space of Scheveningen. Cities such as The Hague, Delft and Leiden are leaders in politics and science. Rotterdam is leading the way with its industrial port, the largest in the world.

Queen Juliana granted the old coat of arms of Holland, together with the motto, by Royal Decree on December 30, 1959 to the province of South Holland.
This coat of arms is an adapted version of a coat of arms that has been in use since about 1198 for the area of the current provinces of North and South Holland. Started as a coat of arms of the Gerulfingen, the first counts of the county of Holland, it has been taken over by all later governors of Holland. Since 1907, the province of North Holland, which arose in 1840, has had its own coat of arms, but here too the Dutch coat of arms has the most important position.

ROTTERDAM

Rotterdam, with its urge for innovation, has built a Maashal, in the summer a beach along the river Maas, a lookout from the Euromast, Spido through the harbor, the Maasvlakte or an extremely fast journey with the water bus to Dordrecht. Also such a Pearl with a capital letter. Certainly in the minority in number of attractions, but still a shared top for everyone who wants to get to know Holland more closely. Certainly more than worth the effort for curious visitors.

NEW WATERWAY

The Nieuwe Waterweg is the last part of the connection between Rotterdam and the sea, and was put into use in 1872. The length of this excavation of the dunes at what is now called Hoek van Holland, but then belonged to the municipality of ‘s-Gravenzande, was 4.3 km. Due to the widening of the beach, it is now somewhat longer: to the end of the bifurcation dam that it shares with the Caland Canal, where the Maasmond begins approximately 7 km. From 1877 the passage was significantly widened and deepened and a new waterway was really created.

TRIJNTJE, BURRIED 7,500 YEARS AGO

Due to the discovery of a skeleton of a woman, who has been given the pet name Trijntje, in Hardinxveld-Giessendam from about 5500 BC, it is known that people already lived in the area that currently belongs to the province of South Holland. belongs. ‘Trijntje’ probably belonged to a group without a permanent residence, who lived on hunting and fishing.

Trijntje, 1 meter 58 tall, mother of several children. She was in good health all her life. Until she died around the age of fifty and was buried 7,500 years ago, on a meter high dune in Hardinxveld-Giessendam.

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