Capture of Brielle
The Capture of Brielle by the Sea Beggars, (or Watergeuzen), on 1 April 1572 marked a turning point in the uprising of the Low Countries against Spain in the Eighty Years' War.
Ouddorp is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. The statistical area Ouddorp, also including the peripheral parts of the village and the surrounding countryside (including Visschershoek), has a population of approximately 6,040, as of 1 January 2005. Ouddorp was a separate municipality until 1966, when it became part of Goedereede, which in turn became part of the new municipality of Goeree-Overflakkee in 2013.
Population: 5,930
Latitude: 51° 48' 42.01" N
Longitude: 3° 56' 4.99" E
The Capture of Brielle by the Sea Beggars, (or Watergeuzen), on 1 April 1572 marked a turning point in the uprising of the Low Countries against Spain in the Eighty Years' War.
Delfshaven is a borough of Rotterdam on the right bank of river Nieuwe Maas, in South Holland, the Netherlands.
The Zuidplaspolder is a polder in the western Netherlands, located northeast of Rotterdam. It reaches a depth of 7.0 metres (23.0 ft) under the mean sea level.
Stadion Woudestein (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈstaːdiˌjɔn ˈʋʌu̯dəˌstɛi̯n]) is a multi-use stadium in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Excelsior Rotterdam.
Maastoren is a 44-storey, 165 m (541 ft) office skyscraper complex in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The building was designed by Dam & Partners in cooperation with Odile Decq Benoit Cornette and it is the tallest in the Netherlands and the whole Benelux. …
The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education is the largest international postgraduate water education facility in the world and is based in Delft, Netherlands. The Institute confers fully accredited MSc degrees, and PhD degrees in collaboration wit…
Goeree-Overflakkee (Dutch pronunciation: [ɣuˈreː ˈoːvərflɑˌkeː]) is the southernmost delta island of the province of South Holland, Netherlands.
The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) is a cultural institute for architecture and urban development, comprising a museum, an archive plus library, and a platform for lectures and debates.
The Nieuwe Maas ("New Meuse") is a distributary of the Rhine River, and a former distributary of the Maas River, in the Dutch province of South Holland. It runs from the confluence of the rivers Noord and Lek, and flows west through Rotterdam. It en…
Gebouw Delftse Poort (English: Delft Gate Building) is a twin-tower skyscraper complex at Weena 505 next to the Rotterdam Centraal railway station in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Tower I is 151.35 m (496.6 ft) with 41 storys, and Tower II is 93 m (305 ft…
Schouwen-Duiveland (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsxʌuə(n)ˈdœyvəlɑnt]) is a municipality and an island in the southwestern Netherlands.
The Nieuwe Waterweg ("New Waterway") is a ship canal in the Netherlands from het Scheur (a branch of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta) west of the town of Maassluis to the North Sea at Hook of Holland: the Maasmond, where the Nieuwe Waterweg connects t…
Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht ( pronunciation ) (population: 29,147 in 2014) is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands.
Neeltje Jans is an artificial island in the Netherlands in the province of Zeeland, halfway between Noord-Beveland and Schouwen-Duiveland in the Oosterschelde.
Zevenbergen is a Dutch city which is a part of the municipality of Moerdijk.
The World Esperanto Association (Esperanto: Universala Esperanto-Asocio, UEA) is the largest international organization of Esperanto speakers, with members in 121 countries (as of 2008) and in official relations with the United Nations and UNESCO. I…
The Rotte is a river in the Rhine-Maas-delta in the Netherlands.
Pernis is a neighborhood and submunicipality (since 3 March 2010) of Rotterdam, Netherlands. The district has a population of 4,789 (2011) on a total area size of 1.60 km². Pernis is thus a full submunicipality of Rotterdam, but the former independe…