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About South Holland

South Holland is a province of the Netherlands with a populace of just over three.6 million as of 2015 and a population density of about 1,300/km2 3,400/sq.Mi, making it the u . S . A .'s most populous province and one of the international's most densely populated regions. Situated at the North Sea in the west of the Netherlands, South Holland covers a place of 3,403 km2 1,314 squaremi, of which 585 km2 226 sq.Mi is water. It borders North Holland to the north, Utrecht and Gelderland to the east, and North Brabant and Zeeland to the south. The provincial capital is The Hague, even as its largest town is Rotterdam. Archaeological discoveries in Hardinxveld-Giessendam imply that the area of South Holland has been inhabited because at the least ca. 7,500 years earlier than present, probably by means of nomadic hunter-gatherers.

Agriculture and everlasting settlements probably originated around 2,000 years later, based totally on excavations near Vlaardingen. In the classical antiquity, South Holland became part of the Roman Province of Germania Inferior, and the border of the Roman Empire ran along the Old Rhine and reached the North Sea near Katwijk. The Romans constructed fortresses along the border, together with Praetorium Agrippinae near modern-day-day Valkenburg, Matilo close to current-day Leiden, and Albaniana close to present day-day Alphen aan den Rijn. A town was based close to contemporary-day Voorburg, Forum Hadriani. It become constructed according to the grid plan, and facilitated a square, a courtroom, a bathhouse and several temples.

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