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pliny the elder (ad 23–79) referred to this region as the land between the helinium and flevo ("inter helinium ac flevum"), the names of the mouths into which the rhine divided itself, the first discharging its waters in the mosa in the neighbourhood of brielle and the second into "the lakes of the north" (present ijsselmeer).[2] the name holland first appeared in sources in ad 866 for the region around haarlem, and by 1064 was being used as the name of the entire county. by this time, the inhabitants of holland were referring to themselves as "hollanders".[3] holland is derived from the middle dutch term holtland ("wooded land"). this spelling variation remained in use until around the 14th century, at which time the name stabilised as holland (alternative spellings at the time were hollant and hollandt). popular, but incorrect, etymology[citation needed] holds that holland is derived from hol land ("hollow land") and was inspired by the low-lying geography of holland.