Holysloot is a village in the
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province of
North Holland
North Holland ( nl, Noord-Holland, ) is a province of the Netherlands in the northwestern part of the country. It is located on the North Sea, north of South Holland and Utrecht, and west of Friesland and Flevoland. In November 2019, it had a ...
. It is a part of the municipality of
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...
, and lies about 9 km northeast of the city centre. The name ''Holysloot'' probably derives from an expression for a "low-lying area at a ditch".
Holysloot is a part of the ''deelgemeente'' (sub-municipality)
Amsterdam-Noord
Amsterdam-Noord (; ) is a borough of Amsterdam, Netherlands with a population of about 90,000. The IJ, the body of water which separates it from Amsterdam-Centrum and the rest of the city, is situated southwest of Amsterdam-Noord. The borough, ...
. The village has about 160 inhabitants.
[Statistics Netherlands (CBS), ''Kerncijfers postcodegebieden 2004']
postcode 1028BB to BE.
Holysloot was a separate municipality between 1 May 1817 and 1 January 1818, when it was merged with
Ransdorp
Ransdorp is a village in the province of North Holland, Netherlands, part of the municipality of Amsterdam. It lies about 7 km northeast of the city centre, in the Landelijk Noord district. Ransdorp is a part of the borough ( Dutch: ''sta ...
.
[Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. ]
References
Populated places in North Holland
Former municipalities of North Holland
Geography of Amsterdam
Amsterdam-Noord
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