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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 289371, member: 2844"]<font size="6"><b>Calling all Dutch</b></font><font size="4">. All of us? Over 16 million, are you sure?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><br /></p><p>I lived in 's Gravenhage for a while. I love the town/village, but there were definitely some Gardenhags around there.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Officially The Hague is still a village, because it never received town rights. It started life as a count's hunting lodge with a large enclosure. The old name is 'Die Haghe', the enclosure. 's Gravenhage, 'the count's enclosure', is the 17th century name, still used officially today.</p><p>The colloquial name, Den Haag, is the name mostly used, although my posh relatives insisted on 's Gravenhage. My grandfather would say that beautifully. He said everything beautifully.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 289371, member: 2844"][SIZE=6][B]Calling all Dutch[/B][/SIZE][SIZE=4]. All of us? Over 16 million, are you sure?:confused:[/SIZE] I lived in 's Gravenhage for a while. I love the town/village, but there were definitely some Gardenhags around there.;) Officially The Hague is still a village, because it never received town rights. It started life as a count's hunting lodge with a large enclosure. The old name is 'Die Haghe', the enclosure. 's Gravenhage, 'the count's enclosure', is the 17th century name, still used officially today. The colloquial name, Den Haag, is the name mostly used, although my posh relatives insisted on 's Gravenhage. My grandfather would say that beautifully. He said everything beautifully.[/QUOTE]
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