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Gelderland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gelderland

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Provincie Gelderland
Province of Gelderland
Coat of arms of Gelderland
Flag Coat of arms
South Holland North Holland Friesland Groningen Drenthe Flevoland Overijssel Gelderland Utrecht Limburg North Brabant Zeeland
Map: Province of Gelderland in the NetherlandsAbout this image
Capital Arnhem
Largest city Nijmegen
Queen's Commissioner Clemens Cornielje
Religion (1999) Protestant 31%
Catholic 29%
Area
 • Land
 • Water
 
4,975 km² (1st)
161 km²
Population (2006)
 • Total
 • Density

1,975,704 (4th)
397/km² (6th)
Anthem Ons Gelderland
ISO NL-GE
Official website www.gelderland.nl

Gelderland (pronunciation , English also Guelders) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the central eastern part of the country. The capital city is Arnhem. The two other major cities, Nijmegen and Apeldoorn have more inhabitants. Other major regional centers in Gelderland are Ede, Zutphen, Doetinchem, Harderwijk, Wijchen and Tiel.

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[edit] History

The current province of Gelderland covers about the area of three of the quarters of the historical Duchy of Guelders. Guelders was a county in the late 11th century and then a duchy in the Holy Roman Empire, including also parts of the province of present-day Limburg and the German District of Kleve (Cleves) with the city of Geldern, the city that was the original seat of the dukes. It became part of the Habsburg Netherlands in 1543, one of the Seventeen Provinces, though not one of the richer or more densely-populated.

[edit] Geography

Gelderland can be devided in three parts: the Veluwe in the north, the Betuwe in the southwest and the Achterhoek or Graafschap (which literally means: County or Earldom) in the east.

[edit] Municipalities

Currently (2006), the municipalities in Gelderland are as follows:

Amsterdam Almelo Almere Amersfoort Arnhem Assen Breda Den Haag Delft Delfzijl Den Bosch Den Helder Dordrecht Enchede Haarlem Hilversum Maastricht Middelburg Zwolle Lelystad Leiden Utrecht Katwijk Nijmegen Eindhoven Vlissingen Rotterdam Leeuwarden Heerenveen Groningen (city) Emmen Almelo Apeldoorn Alkmaar Zaanstad Tilburg Venlo Heerlen Drenthe Flevoland Friesland Gelderland Groningen Limburg North Brabant North Holland Overijssel South Holland Utrecht Zeeland

Map of the Netherlands, linking to the province pages; the red dots mark the capitals of the provinces and the black dots other notable cities or towns.
Map of the Netherlands, linking to the province pages; the red dots mark the capitals of the provinces and the black dots other notable cities or towns.

See also Betuwe, Linge.

[edit] Municipalities abolished on 1 Jan 2005

The following municipalities were abolished on 1 January 2005; see further [1](in Dutch) for more detailed information on these changes.

These municipalities were merged with neighbouring ones:

These municipalities were merged and given a new name:

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