On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
The Netherlands is a latter-day innovation. Holland is the central region of the Netherlands. Compare that with the UK and England.As for why they are called Dutch, see <URL: https://www.etymonline.com/word/Dutch> Generally Germanic peoples called themselves Dutch.
Marko, Thank you for an answer to a question it never occurred to me to ask. I appreciate the lesson. Carpe weekend, Rich -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
