Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie, a military defense of western provinces based upon the inundation of a strip of land...
Stelling van Amsterdam — a "city wall made of water."...
• The Keizer Charlemagne probably did not have a castle in Nijmegen, the "Keizerstad."...
Pope John Paul II's disastrous visit to The Netherlands, 1985...
Romans visited Friesland around 50 B.C....
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The "New Spelling" of 1996...
Polders — ground below the water-level...
Nijmegen is a Roman town....
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Netherlands, and Holland
Sloterplas, west Amsterdam — A man-made lake where once there was a lake...
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American and British forces accidentally dropped bombs on Nijmegen in World War II....
Nijmegen is the oldest city in The Netherlands — with an asterisk....
Dorestad, medieval Frisian city destroyed by plunder and shifting waters...
The official name in Dutch of "The Netherlands," or what many in English call "Holland" is Nederland....
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