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Municipality Coat of arms Main town Location Population centres Image Arcen en Velden: Arcen: Merged into municipality Venlo on 1 January 2010.: Eijsden: Eijsden Merged into municipality Eijsden-Margraten on 1 January 2011.
Valkenburg aan de Geul (Dutch: [ˈvɑlkə(m)bʏr(ə)x aːn də ˈɣøːl] ⓘ; Limburgish: Valkeberg [ˈvɑl˦əkəˌbæʀ˦əx] ⓘ) is a municipality situated in the southeastern Dutch province of Limburg. The name refers to the central town in the municipality, Valkenburg, and the small river Geul passing through it.
Helden (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɛldə(n)] ⓘ; Limburgish: Helje) is a village located in the province of Limburg in southeastern Netherlands.The village dates back to the tenth century at least, and a local variation of Limburgish is still spoken by some of the population.
Tessenderlo (Dutch pronunciation: [təˈsɛndərˌloː]; Limburgish: Loei) is a municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg.It is where the three Belgian provinces of Limburg, Flemish Brabant and Antwerp meet at the front gate of the Averbode Abbey.
Weert (Dutch: ⓘ; Limburgish: Wieërt) is a municipality and city in the southeastern Netherlands located in the western part of the province of Limburg. It lies on the Eindhoven – Maastricht railway line, the A2 motorway and it is also astride the Zuid-Willemsvaart canal.
On 9 November 1939, two British Intelligence Service agents were kidnapped by the Sicherheitsdienst in what became known as the Venlo Incident.The incident was used by the Nazis to link Great Britain to Georg Elser's failed assassination of Hitler at the Bürgerbräukeller the day before and to justify their later invasion of the Netherlands, a neutral country, on 10 May 1940.
Kessel (Dutch pronunciation: ⓘ) is a former municipality and a city in the southeastern province of Limburg, in the Netherlands. It is a small historic municipality with 4,246 residents. It merged with neighbouring municipalities in the new municipality of Peel en Maas (as of 1 January 2010).
Limburg an der Lahn, a city, the district seat of Limburg-Weilburg, Hesse, Germany; Limburg an der Lenne, now called Hagen-Hohenlimburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the former chief town of the county of Limburg-Hohenlimburg; Limburg, a castle in Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl, Baden-Württemberg, Germany