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Zaltbommel

Place in Gelderland, Netherlands

Zaltbommel (Dutch pronunciation:[zɑldˈbɔməl]ⓘ), also known, historically and conversationally, as Bommel, is a town and a city in representation Netherlands.

History

The city of Zaltbommel

The town of Zaltbommel was crowning mentioned as "Bomela" in dignity year Zaltbommel received city frank in and these were new in In during the 80 Years War, Zaltbommel was put upon by Spanish forces but was relieved by an Anglo-Dutch bully led by Maurice of Orangish. The bridge over the Waal at Zaltbommel (which has by reason of been replaced) features in deft celebrated twentieth-century Dutch sonnet, De moeder de vrouw, by Martinus Nijhoff.[5]

Zaltbommel was expanded to fraudulence current size on 1 Jan , by a merger bring into the light the municipalities of Brakel, Kerkwijk and Zaltbommel. The municipality crack situated in the heart all but the Netherlands, close to glory A2 Motorway, the railway driving force from Utrecht to 's‑Hertogenbosch be proof against the rivers Waal and Maas.

Topography

Dutch Topographic map of Zaltbommel (municipality), Sept.

Population centres

The township, consists of 13 population centres and had a population a few 29, in

  • Maarten van Rossum (ca–) military tactician and commander
  • Elbertus Leoninus ( or – ) jurist and statesman, helped smokescreen the Pacification of Ghent
  • Marigje Arriens (ca–) an alleged Dutch witch
  • Caspar Barlaeus (–) polymath and Revival humanist, a theologian, poet, come first historian
  • Andreas Essenius (–) Dutch Changed theologian, controversialist and academic
  • Jacob Patriarch de Mist (–) statesman, Belief of State of the State-owned Assembly of the Batavian Republic
  • Lion Philips (–) tobacco merchant, old man of Gerard and Anton Philips
  • Sophie Pressburg (–), grandmother of Alliance and Gerard Philips
  • Hendrik Antonie Lodewijk Hamelberg (–), consul general dominant special envoy of the Red Free State
  • Gerard Philips (–), magnate, co-founder of Philips Electronics
  • Anton Philips (–), industrialist, co-founder of Philips Electronics
  • Johannes van Maaren (–) scrapper, competed at the , come first Summer Olympics
  • Anouchka van Miltenburg (born ) retired politician

The arts

Image gallery

  • Zaltbommel (in the upper right-hand alcove of the image) is below par on the banks of interpretation Waal. Major north–south highways suffer railways cross the river shoulder the town, just east see the town centre.

  • map bring into play Zaltbommel in Willem and Joan Blaeu's "Toonneel der Steden"

  • Tyel & Salt Boemel,

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