"Hohenzollern lies far south in Schwaben (Suabia), on the sunward slope of the Rauhe-Alp Country; no great way north from Constance and its Lake; but well aloft, near the springs of the Danube; its back leaning on the Black Forest; it is perhaps definable as the southern summit of that same huge old Hercynian Wood, which is still called the Schwarzwald (Black Forest), though now comparatively bare of trees. Fanciful Dryasdust, doing a little etymology, will tell you the name 'Zollern' is equivalent to 'Tollery' or Place of Tolls. Whereby Hohenzollern' comes to mean the 'High' or Upper 'Tollery';—and gives one the notion of antique pedlars climbing painfully, out of Italy and the Swiss valleys, thus far; unstrapping their packhorses here, and chaffering in unknown dialect about 'toll.' Poor souls;—it may be so, but we do not know, nor shall it concern us. This only is known: That a human kindred, probably of some talent for coercing anarchy and guiding mankind, had, centuries ago, built its 'Burg' there, and done that function in a small but creditable way ever since." _T. Carlyle, Frederick the Great, book 2, chapter 5._ "The title, Count of Zollern, was conferred by Henry IV. in the eleventh century. … In 1190 Henry VI. appointed the Count of Zollern to the imperial office of Burgrave of Nuremberg. By fortunate marriages and prudent purchases, his descendants, who retained the office, gradually acquired extensive estates in Franconia, Moravia, and Burgundy, and their wisdom and growing power steadily increased their weight in the councils of the German princes. … Frederick VI. was enriched by Sigismund with large gifts of money, and was made his deputy in Brandenburg in 1411. The marches were in utter confusion, under the feuds and ravages of the unrestrained knighthood. Frederick reduced them to order, and at the Council of Constance, in 1417, received from Sigismund the margraviate of Brandenburg with the dignity of Elector." _C. T. Lewis, History of Germany, book 3, chapter 12, section 1._ See BRANDENBURG: A. D. 1168-1417. HOHENZOLLERN INCIDENT, The. See FRANCE: A. D. 1870 (JUNE-JULY). ----------HOLLAND: Start-------- HOLLAND: The country and its Name. See NETHERLANDS. HOLLAND: A. D. 1430. Absorbed in the dominions of the House of Burgundy. See NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1417-1430. HOLLAND: A. D. 1477. The "Great Privilege" granted by Mary of Burgundy. See NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1477. HOLLAND: A. D. 1488-1491. The Bread and Cheese War. End of the Party of the Hooks. See NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1482-1493. HOLLAND: A. D. 1494. The Great Privilege disputed by Philip the Handsome. Friesland detached. See NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1494-1519. HOLLAND: A. D. 1506-1609. The Austro-Spanish tyranny. Revolt and independence of the United Provinces.