Gelderland (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.
Gelderland was a duchy in the Holy Roman Empire, including also parts of the province of Limburg and of the German District of Cleves with the city of Geldern, the city where the duchy started. It became part of the Habsburgian Netherlands in 1543.
Municipalities
Currently (2005), the municipalities in Gelderland are as follows:
The following municipalities were abolished on 1 January 2005; see further [1] (http://home.wxs.nl/~pagklein/gemhis.html#nu)(in Dutch) for more detailed information on these changes.
These municipalities were merged with neighbouring ones:
interactive province map showing subdivision in municipalities, link for each municipality to basic data page (http://www.sdu.nl/staatscourant/gemeentes/gemprovin.htm#G)
ditto, more up-to-date, but the map is not interactive (http://geodata.prv.gelderland.nl/scripts/esrimap.dll?Name=Zakgeld2&Scherm=Start&Frames=Yes&Cmd=Show)
Detailed map (http://geodata.prv.gelderland.nl/geostart.asp?appl=3) - the map shows streets and buildings; it does not show street names, but one can search for a street name, and the street will then be marked; one can also get a list of all streets in a town.
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