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ALMELO , a See also:town in the See also:province of See also:Overysel, See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, 12 M. by See also:rail N.W. of See also:Hengelo, at the junction of the Overysel and Almelo canals. Pop. (1900) 9957. It is a See also:place of considerable antiquity, having been the seat of an See also:independent lordship before the 14th See also:century. But it first See also:rose into importance in the second See also:half of the 19th century owing to its See also:share in the extra-See also:ordinary See also:industrial development of the Twente See also:district, and now possesses numerous See also:cotton and See also:damask factories. Among the public buildings are a town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, See also:court See also:house, See also:corn See also:exchange, and churches of various denominations, as well as a See also:synagogue.
The lordship of Almelo belonged to the lords of Heeckeren, who acquired the See also:barony of Rechteren by See also:marriage in 1350 and the countship of Limpourg in 1711. The See also:elder See also:branch of the mediatized house of Rechteren-Limpourg is still established at Almelo; the younger, See also:German branch, at Markt Einersheim in See also:Bavaria.
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