Dutch settlement

          In Michigan there are a places which are named after places in the Netherlands. The city of Holland, for instance, was nameded after the homecountry of the immigrants. Many of the other names come from provinces and towns.

          Here is a overview:

• Borculo (Dutch place)
• Drenthe (a Dutch province)
• Graafschap (a kind of province)
• Groningen (a Dutch province)
• Harlem (the Dutch place Haarlem)
• Holland (was a Dutch province)
• New Holland (Holland was a Dutch province)
• Overisel (a Dutch province: Overijssel)
• Vriesland (a Dutch province: Friesland, in Frisian: Fryslân)
• Zeeland (a Dutch province)
• Zutphen (Dutch place)