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10 unusual facts about Middelburg


2009–10 Vodacom League

The five Coastal stream teams and four Inland stream teams were put respectively into Group A and Group B. All the playoff matches were played from April 6–12, at two big stadiums in the Mpumalanga region: Themba Senamela Stadium in Mhluzi, Middelburg and Ackerville Stadium in eMalahleni.

Coenraad Breytenbach

Coenraad Lodewyk Breytenbach (born Middelburg, 10 November 1970) is a former South African rugby league and Russian rugby union player.

Company of Merchant Adventurers of London

The merchants who had frequented Middelburg since 1582 were invited to return in 1587 to the (now independent) United Provinces.

Countess Elisabeth of Nassau

Countess Elisabeth of Nassau (Elisabeth Flandrika) (Middelburg, 26 April 1577 – Sedan, 3 September 1642) was the second daughter of prince William of Orange and his third spouse Charlotte of Bourbon.

Cuir de Cordoue

In the Dutch Republic gold leather-making flourished in the seventeenth century in Amsterdam, The Hague and Middelburg.

Middelburg

Roggeveen discovered Easter Island/Rapa Nui in the South Pacific on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1722.

Middelburg, Mpumalanga

Middelburg was established as Nasareth, (root from dry land), in 1864 by the Voortrekkers on the banks of the Klein Olifants River.

Sephardic Jews in the Netherlands

However, the reason to settle in Amsterdam was not merely voluntary; many crypto-Jews, or Marranos, had been refused admission in trading centers like Middelburg and Haarlem, and because of that ended up in Amsterdam.

William Caton

At Flushing and Middelburg he found English congregations, and was roughly handled at both places for interrupting their services.

William Methwold

At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to an English merchant, and served him for four years in London and then five in Middelburg, Netherlands.


1972 UFO sightings in the eastern Cape

At 8:15 pm on 12 November four soldiers at the Rosmead military camp near Middelburg in the eastern Cape, observed a rotating set of red lights near their duty room, but these went out before they could investigate.

G. J. Renier

Both his grandfathers were from Ostend, West Flanders, his grandmothers were locals from Flushing and Middelburg.

Gerard von Brucken Fock

Gerard von Brucken Fock (also known as Geert) was born as Gerardus Hubertus Galenus Fock in the Ter Hooge castle, Koudekerke, in the outskirts of Middelburg where he spent the summers of his early childhood.

Giles Scott-Smith

Giles Scott-Smith (High Wycombe 1968) is Senior Researcher at the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg and Ernst van der Beugel Chair in the Diplomatic History of Atlantic Cooperation since World War II at the University of Leiden.

Johannes van der Palm

He was scientific advisor to Middelburg (1788) before becoming a member of the Provisional Board of Zeeland (1795), planting a Liberty Tree.

John James Clements

John James Clements VC (Middelburg, Cape Colony 19 June 1872 – 18 June 1937) was a South African recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Klaas Sybrandi

In 1830 he became minister of the Mennonite congregation in Nijmegen (in the far east of the Netherlands), in 1832 he refused a position in Middelburg (in the far southwest) but in 1834 he did accept a new position in Groningen, a university city in the north of the country, to lead the congregation there.

Pieter Cornelis Boutens

After finishing the Gymnasium Middelburg, he began to study classical languages in 1890 at the University of Utrecht, and graduated in 1899 on a study of the Greek comedy writer Aristophanes.

Wilhelm Stahl Provincial Hospital

Wilhelm Stahl Provincial Hospital is a Provincial government funded hospital for the Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality area in Middelburg, Eastern Cape in South Africa.

Zacharias Janssen

William de Boreel, who visited Middelburg to research the invention in 1655, interviewed Janssen's son Johannes.