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The ''Haarlems Dagblad'' is a regional newspaper in
The ''Haarlems Dagblad'' is a regional newspaper in Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English language, English) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the Provinces of the Nether ...
, Netherlands. It claims to be the oldest newspaper in the world still in printed circulation, although it was forced to merge with another Haarlem-based newspaper during the German occupation of the Netherlands
Despite Dutch neutrality, Nazi Germany German invasion of the Netherlands, invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940 as part of ''Fall Gelb'' (Case Yellow). On 15 May 1940, one day after the Rotterdam Blitz, bombing of Rotterdam, the Dutch forces ...
.
''Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant''
This earlier publication was published by Abraham Casteleyn and his wifeMargaretha van Bancken
Margaretha van Bancken (Amsterdam 1628 - Haarlem 1694) was a Dutch publisher from Haarlem.
Biography
She was the daughter of Dirck van Bancken and Anna Noppen.Margaretha van Bancken
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''Weeckelijcke Courante''
Dutch-language information about the original title with facsimile versions of the first front page, the first back page and the advertisement
Advertisements in the ''Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant'' from the start up to 1675
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in
1001 Vrouwen
''1001 Vrouwen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis'' is a compilation of 1001 biographies of famous women of the Netherlands spanning roughly 1700 years.
Project
The book is the result of a research project called the Digital Women's lexicon of the ...
The weekly (which soon began appearing twice and subsequently three times a week, and in the nineteenth century became a monthly) thus preceded English regular newspapers. In the paper's early days, the ''Windsor'' coffee house
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used to advertise that, apart from offering "the best chocolate", it supplied translations of "the ''Harlem Courant'' soon after the post is come in".
During the German occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War, the ''Opregte Haarlemsche Courant'' was forced to merge with ''Haarlems Dagblad''; hence the latter paper's claim to being the oldest title extant. The merged newspaper is owned by Mediahuis
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, a Belgian newspaper conglomerate.
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''Weeckelijcke Courante''
Dutch-language information about the original title with facsimile versions of the first front page, the first back page and the advertisement
Advertisements in the ''Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant'' from the start up to 1675
{{Authority control Daily newspapers published in the Netherlands Dutch-language newspapers Mass media in Haarlem Joh. Enschedé 1656 establishments in the Dutch Republic Publications established in 1656