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Woerden is a municipality and a city in the central 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... Utrecht is the smallest province of the Netherlands, and is located in the center of the country. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... World map of the population density in 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... Night view of Taipei City. ...

Population centres

• De Meye
• Harmelen
• Kamerik
• Kanis
• Woerden
• Zegveld

Harmelen is a village in the Netherlands, in the municipality of Woerden, containing about 8,000 inhabitants. ... Kamerik () is a town in the Dutch province of Utrecht. ... Kanis () is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. ... Zegveld () is a town in the Dutch province of Utrecht. ...

The city of Woerden

Woerden received city rights in 1372, Woerden was nevertheless a tiny place which gave shelter to about 500 citizens. Woerden is situated on the river Oude Rijn. The river Oude Rijn used to cascade through the city center of Woerden, but in 1960 the old river was diverged around the city center. City rights are a medieval phenomenon in the history of the Low Countries. ... Events In this year, the city of Aachen, Germany begins adding a Roman numeral Anno Domini date to a few of its coins. ...

The city has a rich cheese history, for years the production of Gouda cheese for domestic as international use has been produced in this region. Woerden still has his authentic (since 1885) cheese market at it's city center. Cheese is a solid food made from the curdled milk of cows, goats, sheep, water buffalo or other mammals. ...

During building and reconstruction works in the city center of Woerden, numerous old Roman buildings and ships were found, as Woerden was a castellum (Castellum Laurum) in the Roman empire. It was part of the defense of the northern border of the Roman Empire. In Woerden the army created the fort Laurum. During field research, a lot became known about the Roman time in Woerden: the location of the castellum, the zone of defense waters with the entrance road and the Roman rowing boat Woerden. Castellum is a small Roman detached fort or fortlet which served as a watch tower or signal station. ... The Roman Empire was a phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by an autocratic form of government. ...

After the Roman period, the place was called Wyrda, referring to Wierd, meaning that the place was on a higher place in the area. In 1410 was started with building the castle of Woerden, and in 1510 with the townhall. These buildings still exist. Events July 15 – Battle of Grunwald (a. ... 1510 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Woerdense preacher Jan de Bakker, was the first preacher in the Northern Netherlands conficted to death as an direct result of his religious perception. This perception did not align with the dominant Roman Catholic one, and in 1525 he was directed to the fire battery. The religous harms have been initially limited in woerden: the Lutheran duke Erik van Brunswijk, who had woerden around 1570 in tenant farming, tolerated the Lutheran conceptions in the city. Events January 21 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manzs mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. ...

Notable people born in Woerden

• Peter Prijdekker (1948) – freestyle swimmer

Peter Cornelis Prijdekker (born June 22, 1948 in Woerden, Utrecht) is a former freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. ...

External links

• Official Website
• Map
• Companies in Woerden (in Dutch)

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