Haarlem

Haarlem is a town and municipality inside the Netherlands and the capital of the province of Noord-Holland. The metropolis lies at the River Spaarne and in the Kennemerland area. Haarlem is one of the medium sized towns inside the Randstad. The municipality of Haarlem includes the town of Haarlem and the western part of the village of Spaarndam.

The municipality has 161,213 inhabitants, making it after Amsterdam the largest city in North Holland and the 12th municipality inside the Netherlands. The metropolitan agglomeration Haarlem has about two hundred,000 population and the city region of Haarlem greater than 400,000 population. Haarlem appears for the first time in literary sources inside the tenth century. In the supply the region is cited below the name 'Haralem'. Archaeological research indicates that there had been already settlements in the vicinity across the Spaarne 1500 years before our technology. The location became created as a ghost settlement on a seashore rampart, over which a country street ran that related the north of Holland with the south.