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unusual facts about Noord-Brabant



't Haantje

't Haantje, North Brabant, a hamlet in the municipality of Steenbergen, North Brabant, Netherlands

Adrie van Kraay

Adrianus Ambrosius Cornelis van Kraaij (born August 1, 1953 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant), commonly known as Adrie van Kraay, is a retired football central defender from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, wearing the number four jersey.

Anne of France

Anne was born at the Chateau of Genappe in Brabant on 3 April 1461, the eldest surviving daughter of King Louis XI of France and Charlotte of Savoy.

Anthony of Burgundy

Anthony, Duke of Brabant (1384 – 1415); Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg

Bakel

Bakel en Milheeze, a former municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant

Bar Convent

Mother Superior Catherine Rouby, the Superior at the time, also provided shelter to fugitive nuns including Carmelites from Brabant, Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre from Liège and Poor Clares from Dunkirk.

Beers

Beers, North Brabant, a Dutch place in the North Brabant municipality of Cuijk

Borne, Netherlands

Borne, North Brabant, a hamlet turned neighborhood in North Brabant, Netherlands

Burgundian Circle

He thereby became the progenitor of the House of Valois-Burgundy who systematically came into possession of different Imperial fiefs: his grandson Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy from 1419, purchased Namur in 1429, inherited the duchies of Brabant and Limburg from his cousin Philip of Saint-Pol in 1430.

Charles Christian Hennell

Dr. Robert Herbert Brabant of Devizes introduced the book to David Strauss, author of Das Leben Jesu, and the Inquiry was translated into German (1839): Strauss wrote it a preface.

Chris Dekker

Chris Dekker (born 6 December 1945 in Westzaan, Noord-Holland) is a former football defender and midfielder from the Netherlands, who played for AZ Alkmaar, NEC Nijmegen, DWS and FC Amsterdam, before moving to Belgium to play for R. Charleroi S.C. (1977–1981).

Christian II of Denmark

Christian and his wife lived next Lier, in Brabant, where Elizabeth died in January 1526, after which the children were taken away from Christian to not be raised as heretics.

Cuir de Cordoue

In the fifteenth or sixteenth century, the technique reached the Low Countries, first in Flanders and Brabant, where it was further developed.

Den Hoorn

Den Hoorn, North Holland, a town on the island Texel in the province Noord-Holland in the Netherlands.

Eduard Dallmann

The operation was moderately successful from the point of view of whaling, however, Dallmann made many important discoveries around Antarctica during this expedition, foremost of which were the Bismarck Strait and the charting of Anvers, Brabant, Liege and Kaiser-Wilhelm Islands.

Erp, Netherlands

In 1579, seven Northern Dutch provinces declared their independence, while Brabant remained part of the Spain of Philip II, son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

ERPs

Erps-Kwerps, village in the Belgian Province of Flemish Brabant

Faculty of Theology, Old University of Leuven

After repeated requests from the municipal government, from the Duke of Brabant and from Philip the Good, the university received permission to grant theological degrees from Pope Eugene IV on 7 March 1432.

Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig

A street is named after him in the neighborhood of streets named after 19th- and 20th-century Dutch painters in Overtoomse Veld-Noord, Amsterdam.

Gerard de Jode

He often printed the works of other cartographers including Gastaldi's map of the world in 1555, Jacob van Deventer's map of Brabant in 1558, Ortelius' eight sheet map of the world in 1564, and maps by Bartholomeus Musinus and Fernando Alvares Seco.

Gerhard V of Jülich

Gerhard married before 13 December 1299 Elisabeth of Brabant-Aarschot (c. 1280 – 1350/55), daughter of Godfrey of Brabant and Jeanne, dame de Vierzon.

Hellen Huisman

Hellen Huisman (born 26 March 1937 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland - died 29 January 2012 in Blaricum Noord-Holland) was a voice actor who did voiceover work on Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street.

Henry Eam

A native of Brabant, it is thought he was one of the knights who came to England on the invitation of Edward III in January 1343/4.

Heusden

The settlement of Heusden, bordering on the river Meuse (Maas), as we know it today dates back to the 13th century, and started with the construction of a fortification to replace the castle that was destroyed by the Duke of Brabant in 1202.

History of rail transport in the Netherlands

The Noord-Brabantsch-Duitsche Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NBDS) was founded to fill the gap in the line between Saint Petersburg, Berlin and London.

Hortus Bulborum

The collection garden of the foundation is located at the Zuidkerkenlaan in Limmen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Hyperion Lyceum

It opened in fall 2011; since 2012 it has been located in Overhoeks in Amsterdam-Noord, in a temporary modular building designed for it by Burton Hamfelt Architectuur.

Jewish Eindhoven

Eindhoven is a municipality and a city located in the province of Noord-Brabant in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender brooks.

Knight of the Swan

As in other versions Loherangrin is a knight who arrives in a swan-pulled boat to defend a lady, in this case Elsa of Brabant.

Laïla Abid

Later she worked for RTV Noord-Holland, Amsterdam FM, SBS Hart van Nederland and since 2007 for commercial newsstation BNR Nieuwsradio.

London-Brabant Massif

The London-Brabant Massif or London-Brabant Platform is in the tectonic structure of Europe a structural high or massif that stretches from the Rhineland in western Germany across northern Belgium (in the province of Brabant) and the North Sea to the sites of East Anglia and the middle Thames in southern England.

Louvain

French name for Leuven, the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium

Maria of Brabant, Duchess of Bavaria

The betrothal of one of the daughters of Henry II Duke of Brabant to Edward is recorded by Matthew Paris.

Philip I, Duke of Burgundy

In 1357, by marrying the future Countess Margaret III of Flanders, then heiress of Flanders, he was promised the counties of Flanders, Nevers, Rethel, and Antwerp, and the duchies of Brabant, and Limburg.

Political parties in Flanders

As the name suggests, its primary target are the French-speaking inhabitants of Flemish Brabant and particularly those who live in Halle-Vilvoorde and the predominantly French-speaking municipalities with linguistic facilities near the Brussels-Capital Region.

Polsbroek

In 1812, a single municipality "Polsbroek" was created, covering both Noord-Polsbroek and Zuid-Polsbroek, and several surrounding villages (Cabauw, Vliet, Vlist, Zevender, and Hoenkoop).

Prince Wolfgang of Hesse

Sjöström (2013) bases the succession to the stipulations of the 1772 Instrument of Government, reporting that the heir and successor were Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse and Brabant, eldest son of the brother.

Rotterdam Noord railway station

It sits at the border between the two Rotterdam municipalities Noord and Hillegersberg-Schiebroek.

Sierre coach crash

The passengers, four teachers and 46 pupils from Saint-Lambertus school in Heverlee, Flemish Brabant, and Stekske primary school in Lommel, Limburg, were returning home having spent the previous few days at a skiing resort in Val d'Anniviers in the Swiss Alps.

SV Deportivo Nacional

Sport Vereniging Deportivo Nacional (as known SV Deportivo Nacional) is an Aruban football club based in Palm Beach, Noord, which currently play in Aruba's first division.

The Flail from Heaven

The butcher, having no currency on him, bartered a measure of turnip-seed with the peasant, offering should the peasant return to him with the measure of rapeseed he would exchange a Brabant thaler for each seed.

Velsen-Noord

In 1918, the steel producer Koninklijke Hoogovens was established in Velsen-Noord along the North Sea Canal.

Waard

Grote Hollandse Waard, farming region between Zuid-Holland and Brabant, that disappeared in the Sint-Elisabethsvloed (1421)

Walram, Count of Jülich

In 1296, Walram married Marie of Brabant-Aarschot (c. 1278 – 25 February 1332), daughter of Godfrey of Brabant and Jeanne, dame de Vierzon.

War of the Limburg Succession

Siegfried II of Westerburg, the Archishop of Cologne and ruler of the Electorate of Cologne, traditional enemy of the Duke of Brabant, forged an alliance with Reginald I, joined by Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg, and his brother Waleran I of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny, as well as by Adolf, King of Germany.

Wijk

Wijk en Aalburg, the main town in the municipality of Aalburg, North Brabant, the Netherlands

World Class Aviation Academy Giants

World Class Aviation Academy Giants or West-Brabant Giants was a Dutch professional basketball club based in Bergen op Zoom.


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