Everything about Haarlems Dagblad totally explained
The
Haarlems Dagblad is a regional newspaper in
Haarlem, the Netherlands. It makes claim to being the newspaper with the oldest publishing history in the world, even if this claim is based on its (forced) merger with another title.
Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant
This earlier publication was published by Abraham Casteleyn, beginning in
1656 under the title
Weeckelycke Courante van Europa ("Weekly Newspaper of Europe"). In
1664, when the authorities took steps to protect the weekly from its imitators, it became known as
De Oprechte Haerlemse Courant (spellings vary; "oprecht" is here used in its archaic sense of "genuine").
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 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 now part of the
Hollandse Dagbladcombinatie, a newspaper conglomerate.
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