Kennemerland

Kennemerland (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌkɛnəmərˈlɑnt]) is a coastal region in the northwestern Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.

Kennemerland gets its name from the Kennemer people, Frisians who fought unsuccessfully with the Counts of Holland and in the Middle Ages.

During the 20th century, the term Kennemerland has been redefined to denote municipal regions of North Holland.

The knights of Kennemerlant, as the area was then called, quarrelled continually over trading rights and land ownership.

In North Holland during the years 900–1300, castles were often built and later destroyed, and archaeologists today are still trying to piece together evidence.

The dunes of Kennemerland as they have been since the Kennemers lived there.
The term Kennemerland is mostly used to define the immediate surroundings of Haarlem .
Two panels by the Master of Alkmaar dated 1490–1510, with a Kennemer dunescape in the background.
On this map of the province of North Holland, the green areas show today the areas of North, Middle and South Kennemerland, while only the darker green region is roughly the original area of Kennemerland (excluding land that was formerly water and has since been pumped dry).
Map from 1681 showing the area of Kennemerlant at the top.