Little is known about the exact age and origin of the name of Appingedam. It came into existence on the banks of the Delf, the present Damsterdiep, around 1200. The name originates from a dam built...
Cambuur Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Cambuur Leeuwarden. The stadium is able to hold 10,000...
The Euromast is a tower in Rotterdam constructed between 1958 and 1960, designed by H.A. Maaskant. It was specially built for the 1960 Floriade. It is a concrete building with an internal diameter...
Arnhem (pronunciation (help·info)) (South Guelderish: Èrnem) is a city and municipality in the east of the Netherlands, and capital of province Gelderland. Arnhem is located on the river Lower...
Bedum (pronunciation (help·info), Gronings: Beem) is a municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands. Populated by around 10,000 (2005) inhabitants, Bedum is one of the larger of...
Kinderdijk is a village in the Netherlands, partly in the municipality Nieuw-Lekkerland, partly in the municipality of Alblasserdam. It lies about 15km east of Rotterdam.
The official name for Kamp Amersfoort was "Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort", P.D.A. or Police Transitcamp Amersfoort.
During the years of 1941 to 1945, over 35,000 prisoners were kept...
The Goffertstadium is a football stadium in Nijmegen, Netherlands. It is home to the NEC Nijmegen football club.
The stadium was opened on July 8th 1939 by Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands
The Seagull (Russian: "Чайка"), written in 1896, is the first of what are generally considered to be Anton Chekhov's four major plays. It centres on the romantic and artistic conflicts between...
Amersfoort, the intercity station, with trains to Enschede, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Amsterdam and Leeuwarden/Groningen, and Amersfoort Schothorst. This station has twice an hour a train to Utrecht,...
Texel is a municipality and an island in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the biggest and most populated of the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea and also the westernmost of...
The Feijenoord Stadion, nicknamed de Kuip (the Tub), is a stadium in Rotterdam, completed in 1937. Today it's called "Stadion Feyenoord". The name is derived from the area "Feijenoord" in...
Beesd ( [show location on an interactive map] 51°53′N, 5°11′E) is a town in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is a part of the municipality of Geldermalsen, and lies about 16 km west of...
The octopus (Greek Ὀκτάπους, 'eight-legs') is a cephalopod of the order Octopoda that inhabits many diverse regions of the ocean, especially coral reefs. The term may also refer to only...
The castle in Gemert dates back to the `dark ages', although it has been rebuilt a couple of times. It was founded by German knights who lived in the castle for several hundred years, however these...
Jan Louwers Stadion is a multi-use stadium in the Eindhoven borough of Stratum, Netherlands. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Eindhoven. The stadium is...
Gamma (uppercase Γ, lowercase γ) is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 3. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Gimel Gimel. Letters...
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