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Hamaland is a non-administrative region in the east of the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 that is named after the Frankish Chamavi
Chamavi

The Chamavi were a Germanic tribe of Late Antiquity and the Dark Ages. They first appear under that name in the 1st century AD Germania of Tacitus as a Germanic tribe that, for most of their history, existed along the North bank of the Lower Rhine in the region today called Hamaland after them, which is in the Gelderland province of the...
-tribe. It is located east of the river Yssel and south of Salland
Salland

Salland is a historical region in the west and north of the present Netherlands province of Overijssel. It is probably named after the Salian Franks, who are thought to originate from Salland....
 (the original homeland of the Frankish Salii
Salian Franks

File:Seal_of_Childeric_I_Tournai tomb.jpgThe Salian Franks or Salii were a subgroup of the early Franks who originally had been living north of the limes in the coastal area above the Rhine River in the northern Netherlands, where today there still is a region called Salland....
) and Twente
Twente

Twente is a non-administrative region in the eastern Netherlands, probably named after the Tuihanti, a tribe that settled in that region in the beginning of our era....
 (the original homeland of the Frankish Tuanti). Hamaland and the Chamavi were in Late antiquity ruled by independent kings. Later the Chamavi were subdued by Carolingian Franks.

From the 9th century there is a noble Hama-family attested that owned large parts of the middle, east and north of what is now known as the Netherlands.






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Hamaland is a non-administrative region in the east of the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 that is named after the Frankish Chamavi
Chamavi

The Chamavi were a Germanic tribe of Late Antiquity and the Dark Ages. They first appear under that name in the 1st century AD Germania of Tacitus as a Germanic tribe that, for most of their history, existed along the North bank of the Lower Rhine in the region today called Hamaland after them, which is in the Gelderland province of the...
-tribe. It is located east of the river Yssel and south of Salland
Salland

Salland is a historical region in the west and north of the present Netherlands province of Overijssel. It is probably named after the Salian Franks, who are thought to originate from Salland....
 (the original homeland of the Frankish Salii
Salian Franks

File:Seal_of_Childeric_I_Tournai tomb.jpgThe Salian Franks or Salii were a subgroup of the early Franks who originally had been living north of the limes in the coastal area above the Rhine River in the northern Netherlands, where today there still is a region called Salland....
) and Twente
Twente

Twente is a non-administrative region in the eastern Netherlands, probably named after the Tuihanti, a tribe that settled in that region in the beginning of our era....
 (the original homeland of the Frankish Tuanti). Hamaland and the Chamavi were in Late antiquity ruled by independent kings. Later the Chamavi were subdued by Carolingian Franks.

From the 9th century there is a noble Hama-family attested that owned large parts of the middle, east and north of what is now known as the Netherlands. The same family owned also large part of German Munsterland and had estates more south, probably around Nassau. When these leading Counts died Hamaland became one of the core areas of the Dukes of Gelre, and thus formed a part of the Duchy Gelre
Guelders

Guelders or Gueldres is the name of a historical county, later duchy in the Low Countries.The duchy was named after the town of Geldern, which is now in Germany....
. Other parts of the heritage of the Hama-family became to be known as the Duchy of Cleve
Duchy of Cleves

The Duchy of Cleves was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in present Germany and the Netherlands . Its territory was situated on both sides of the river Rhine, around its capital Cleves and roughly covering today's Cleves , Wesel and the City of Duisburg....
 and the Bishopries of Utrecht and Munster.

Nowadays Hamaland is part of the Dutch province Gelderland
Gelderland

Gelderland is a Provinces of the Netherlands of the Netherlands, located in the central eastern part of the country. The capital city is Arnhem....
.