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Encyclopedia > Naarden
Naarden
Coordinates: 52.30°′″N 5.15°′″E / Expression error: Unexpected / operator, Expression error: Unexpected / operator
Country Netherlands
Province North Holland
Area (2006)
 - Municipality 32.89 km²  (12.7 sq mi)
 - Land 21.38 km² (8.3 sq mi)
 - Water 11.51 km² (4.4 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2007)
 - Municipality 17,174
 - Density 803/km² (2,079.8/sq mi)
  Source: CBS, Statline.
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Website: www.naarden.nl

Image:Ltspkr.pngNaarden is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Naarden received city rights around 1300. The town is fortified with walls and a moat, which are, quite remarkably, both complete and in a very good state. More specifically, Naarden is an example of a star fort. Image File history File links Dutch_Municipality_Naarden_2006. ... Capital Haarlem Queens Commissioner Mr. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of SI unit of surface area square metre, one of the SI derived units. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Statistics Netherlands is a Dutch governmental institution that gathers statistical information about the Netherlands. ... Timezone and TimeZone redirect here. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries that do not observe summer time Central European Time (CET) is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Central European Time West Africa Time British Summer Time* Irish Summer Time* Western European Summer Time* Category: ... Though DST is common in Europe and North America, most of the worlds people do not use it. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries that do not observe summer time Central European Summer Time (CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Eastern European Time Central Africa Time Israel Standard Time South Africa Standard Time Central European Summer Time West Africa Summer Time Category: ... The purpose of this page is to lay out our policies for handling sounds, and give people some useful information for handling sound files. ... Capital Haarlem Queens Commissioner Mr. ... City rights are a medieval phenomenon in the history of the Low Countries. ... Events February 22 - Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII. March 10 - Wardrobe accounts of King Edward I of Englanddo (aka Edward Longshanks) include a reference to a game called creag being played at the town of Newenden in Kent. ... Table of Fortification, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... The moated manor house of Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, England Moats (also known as a Fosse) were deep and wide water-filled trenches, excavated to provide a barrier against attack upon castle ramparts or other fortifications. ... A Star Fort is a fortification in the style that evolved during the Age of Blackpowder when the cannon came to dominate the battlefield. ...

Aerial view of Naarden
Aerial view of Naarden

In Naarden is the sepulchre of Jan Ámos Komenský. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Portrait of Comenius by Rembrandt Jan Amos Komenský (Latinized Comenius) (March 28, 1592, in Moravia (now the Czech Republic) – November 15, 1670, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) was a Czech teacher, scientist, educator and writer, known as teacher of nations. ...

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Local government

The municipal council of Naarden consists of 17 seats, which are divided as follows:

The Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) (Dutch: Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie) is a Dutch liberal political party. ... The Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) (Dutch: Christen Democratisch Appèl) is a Dutch Christian-democratic political party. ... This article is about the Dutch political party. ... The Labour Party (in Dutch: Partij van de Arbeid, PvdA) is a Dutch social-democratic political party. ... d66 may refer to Democrats 66, a Dutch political party d66 (die), a dice roll used in some old wargames and RPGs This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Notable people born in Naarden

  • Willem Arondeus (1894-1943) – artist and author
  • Bertil Schmüll (1946) – engraver
  • Annemarie Groen (1955) – backstroke swimmer
  • Tom van 't Hek (1958) – field hockey player and coach
  • Kevin Berclouw (1977) – notorious for flashing his pencil in the Vondelpark

Willem Arondeus (Naarden,22 August 1894–Haarlem,1 July 1943) was a homosexual Dutch artist and author, who joined the anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. Willem Arondeus was born in Naarden, as the son of an Amsterdam tradesman in fuels. ... Bertil H.W. Schmüll (b. ... Annemarie Groen (born October 16, 1955 in Naarden, Noord-Holland) is a former backstroke swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for her native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. ... Maria Thomas (Tom) van ’t Hek (born April 1, 1958 in Naarden) is a former field hockey striker from Holland, who played 221 international matches for the Dutch, in which he scored a total number of 106 goals. ...

References

Image File history File links Description: Map for localisazion of the province of Noord Holland in the Netherlands. ... The modern day Netherlands are divided into twelve provinces (provincies in Dutch), listed below with their capital city: Map of the Netherlands, with provinces and capital cities See also the ranked list of Dutch provinces // Structure A Dutch province represents the administrative layer in between the national government and the... All provinces of the Netherlands are divided into municipalities (gemeenten), together 458 (2006); among these we can distinguish: those comprising one main city, town or village with the same name as the municipality, and possibly some additional villages; for example Utrecht, comprising the city Utrecht and the villages De Meern...

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Naarden: the ancient capital of Holland (1539 words)
Naarden is to be found on the A1, a major highway between Amsterdam and Utrecht.
By 1131 it was one of the largest cities in the Netherlands, recognized by many as the capital and the emperor of Germany, Otto I, gave the control of the city to the monks residing in the monastery at Eelde, principally to the owner of the monastery – Count Wichman II van Hamaland.
Naarden was subsequently captured twice, by the French and by the Prussians, during the Napoleonic Wars.
Naarden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (104 words)
Naarden is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.
The town is fortified with walls and a moat, which are, quite remarkably, both complete and in a very good state.
In Naarden is the sepulchre of Jan Ámos Komenský
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