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    Middelburg (Dutch: [ˈmɪdəlbʏr(ə)x] ) is a city and municipality in the south-western Netherlands serving as the capital of the province of Zeeland. Situated...
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    is Middelburg with a population of 48,544 as of November 2019, although the largest municipality in Zeeland is Terneuzen (population 54,589). Zeeland has...
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  • University College Roosevelt (category Middelburg, Zeeland)
    liberal arts and science college located in Middelburg in the Netherlands and the sole university in Zeeland. It offers a residential setting, and is an...
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    of Zeeland. Voting cities, in order of importance: Middelburg (1217) Zierikzee (1248) Reimerswaal (1374) until 1574 voting in the States of Zeeland, Goes...
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    This is a list of mayors of the city of Middelburg, Zeeland, capital of the province of Zeeland, The Netherlands. On 4 January 1824 it was decided by...
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    Midden-Zeeland Airport (ICAO: EHMZ), also known as Zeeland Airport, is an airport located 5 NM (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) east northeast of Middelburg, Zeeland, in...
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    Chamber of Zeeland, and one from each of the smaller Chambers, while the seventeenth seat was alternatively from the Chamber of Middelburg-Zeeland or rotated...
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    approximately 65 km (40 miles) west of Bergen op Zoom, Middelburg is the principal town and regional capital of Zeeland in the Netherlands. The origins of the abbey...
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  • Middelburg may refer to: Middelburg, Zeeland, the capital city of the province of Zeeland, southwestern Netherlands Roman Catholic Diocese of Middelburg...
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    open for visitors. The Dutch name is in reference to the city of Middelburg, Zeeland. After the fall of Portuguese Malacca to the Dutch in 1641, the Dutch...
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    Middelburg Town Hall is situated at the market of Middelburg, Zeeland. It is considered[by whom?] one of the finest Gothic buildings in the Netherlands...
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    Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (category Middelburg, Zeeland)
    twentieth-century American history in Middelburg, the capital of Zeeland. Their initiative, discussed with the Provincial Government of Zeeland in the years 1982–1984...
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    Jan Paul van Hecke (category People from Middelburg, Zeeland)
    Jan Paul van Hecke (born 8 June 2000) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Brighton & Hove Albion of the Premier League and...
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  • Samuel Maju Samehtini (category People from Middelburg, Zeeland)
    was a Dutch musician and composer. Samehtini was born in Middelburg, in the province of Zeeland, on 14 March 1816, as the oldest son of the textile merchant...
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    States of Zeeland was made up of prelates from the area (e.g. the abbot of the Onze Lieve Vrouwe Abdij in Middelburg), the main nobles of Zeeland (the Ridderschap)...
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    Zacharias Janssen (category People from Middelburg, Zeeland)
    – pre-1632) was a Dutch spectacle-maker who lived most of his life in Middelburg. He is associated with the invention of the first optical telescope and/or...
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    Arnemuiden (category Middelburg, Zeeland)
    Middelburg in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. It is located on the former island of Walcheren, about 3 km east of the city of Middelburg....
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    Hans Lipperhey (category People from Middelburg, Zeeland)
    settled in Middelburg, the capital of the province of Zeeland, now in the Netherlands, in 1594, married the same year and became a citizen of Zeeland in 1602...
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    Canal through Walcheren (category Transport in Middelburg, Zeeland)
    Westerschelde and the Veerse Meer. In the 15th and 16th century Middelburg, capital of Zeeland was booming. The city was on Walcheren Island, and had a connection...
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  • Sloedam (category Buildings and structures in Middelburg, Zeeland)
    contested during the German invasion of the Low Countries in the Battle of Zeeland. A combined French-Dutch force under brigadier-general Marcel Deslaurens...
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  • of Zeeland was disestablished in 1795, alongside the other admiralties. The Zeeland Admiralty was established in 1584, and had its seat at Middelburg. Zeeland...
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  • Jacob Roggeveen (category People from Middelburg, Zeeland)
    ships and made the expedition. He became notary of Middelburg (the capital of the province of Zeeland, where he was born). On 12 August 1690, he graduated...
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  • tons). The ship had 24 guns. Middelburg has its name of the city Middelburg on Walcheren in Zeeland where the Chamber of Zeeland was located. On 28 December...
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    Flushing. Other cities in the province of Zeeland soon joined the rebels, and by mid-1572 only Arnemuiden and Middelburg, on the island of Walcheren, and Goes...
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    Four Freedoms Award (category Middelburg, Zeeland)
    years in New York City by the Roosevelt Institute to Americans and in Middelburg, Netherlands, by the Roosevelt Stichting to non-Americans. State of the...
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    Etty Hillesum (category People from Middelburg, Zeeland)
    Hillesum was born on 15 January 1914 in her family home in the town of Middelburg, the oldest of the three children – she had two brothers: Jacob, or "Jaap"...
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    Battle of Arnemuiden (category Middelburg, Zeeland)
    The Battle of Arnemuiden was a naval battle fought on 23 September 1338 at the start of the Hundred Years' War between England and France. It was the first...
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    populated province with 1,410/km2 (3,700/sq mi). With 391,124 inhabitants, Zeeland has the smallest population. However Drenthe is the least densely populated...
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    Middelburg Drydock is a former dry dock in Middelburg, Netherlands. The Dock chamber still exists. Middelburg is the capital of Zeeland. From the 15th...
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    The Oostkerk is a Protestant church in Middelburg. The church can be spotted on the Middelburg horizon by its characteristic round dome. The church was...
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