Kingdom of Holland

Kingdom of Holland
   The successor of the Batavian Republic —which should not be confused with the province of Holland. This kingdom, with Louis Napoleon as sovereign, was a satellite state of France between 1806 and 1810. It also included the German region of Eastern Frisia.

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