Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
L1, also known by its original name Omroep Limburg (lit. ' Limburg Broadcasting '), is a regional public broadcaster in the Netherlands, specifically serving the province of Limburg. Founded in 1988 to replace the Regionale Omroep Zuid (ROZ), the station rebranded to L1 in 1999 following a merger with the commercial broadcaster TV8 Limburg .
Name Municipality Coordinates Aalbeek: Nuth: Aaldonk: Gennep: Aan de Berg: Roerdalen: Aan de Bergen: Leudal: Aan de Popelaar: Echt-Susteren: Aan de School: Echt-Susteren
Limburg's main river is the Meuse, which passes through the province's entire length from south to north. Limburg's surface is largely formed by deposits from the Meuse, consisting of river clay, fertile loessial soil and large deposits of pebblestone, currently being quarried for the construction industry. In the north of the province, further ...
Limburg has 33 municipalities. Position of Limburg within the Netherlands. Current municipalities ... Merged into municipality Venlo on 1 January 2010. Eijsden:
Limburgish is spoken by approximately 1.6 million people in the Low Countries and by many hundreds of thousands in Germany. [citation needed] It is especially in the Dutch province of Limburg that Limburgish is used not only in everyday speech, but also often in more formal situations and on the local and regional radio. [27]
Limburg (Dutch: Provincie Limburg, French: Province de Limbourg) was one of the provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and later Belgium. The province existed for the duration of the United Kingdom, from 1815 to 1830, and for the first years after Belgian independence , from 1830 to 1839.
NUTS 1 Code NUTS 2 Code NUTS 3 Code North Netherlands NL1 Groningen: NL11 East Groningen NL111 Delfzijl and surroundings NL112 Rest of Groningen NL113 Friesland: NL12 North Friesland NL124 South West Friesland NL125 South East Friesland NL126 Drenthe: NL13 North Drenthe NL131 South East Drenthe NL132 South West Drenthe NL133 East Netherlands NL2
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.