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See also:ZUTPHEN, or ZUTFEN , a See also:town in the See also:province of See also:Gelderland, 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, on the right See also:bank of the Ysel at the influx of the Belied, and a junction station 18 m. by See also:rail N.N.E. of See also:Arnhem. Pop. 19,000. It is a picturesque old town with several See also:brick houses of the 16th and 17th centuries. The most important See also:building is the Groote Kerk, of St See also:Walpurgis, which See also:dates from the 12th See also:century and contains monuments of the former See also:counts of Zutphen, a 13th-century See also:candelabrum, an elaborate See also:copper See also:font (1527), and a See also:fine See also:modern See also:monument to the See also:van Heeckeren See also:family. The See also:chapter-See also:house contains a pre-See also:Reformation library which includes some valuable See also:MSS. and See also:incunabula. There are some remains of the old town walls. The See also:place has an active See also:trade, especially in See also:grain and in the See also:timber floated down from the See also:Black See also:Forest by the See also:Rhine and the Ysel; the See also:industries include tanning, See also:weaving, and oil and See also:paper manufactures. Not far from Zutphen on the See also:west at Monnikhuizen once stood the Carthusian See also:convent founded by Reinald III., See also:duke of Gelder-See also:land, in 1342 and dissolved in 1572. About 3 in. to the See also:north of Zutphen is the agricultural See also:colony of Nederlandsch-Mettray, founded by a private benefactor for the See also:education of poor friendless boys in 1851, and since that date largely extended.
In the See also:middle ages Zutphen was the seat of a See also:line of counts, which became See also:extinct in the 12th century. Having been fortified the town stood several sieges, specially during the See also:wars of freedom waged by the Dutch, the most celebrated fight under its walls being the one in See also:September 1586 when See also:Sir See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Sidney was mortally wounded. Taken by the Spaniards in 1587 Zutphen was recovered by See also:Maurice, See also:prince of See also:Orange, in 1591, and except for two See also:short periods, one in 1672 and the other during the See also:French Revolutionary Wars, it has since then remained a See also:part of the See also:United See also:Netherlands. Its fortifications were dismantled in 1874.
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