Coevorden
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Castle and city hall of Coevorden in 2007
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| Country | Netherlands | ||
| Province | Drenthe | ||
| Government[1] | |||
| • Body | Municipal council | ||
| • Mayor | Bert Bouwmeester (D66) | ||
| Area[2] | |||
| • Total | 299.69 km2 (115.71 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 296.54 km2 (114.49 sq mi) | ||
| • Water | 3.15 km2 (1.22 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation[3] | 12 m (39 ft) | ||
| Population (May 2014)[4] | |||
| • Total | 35,639 | ||
| • Density | 120/km2 (300/sq mi) | ||
| Demonym(s) | Coevordenaar | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postcode | 7740–7759, 7840–7869 | ||
| Area code | 0524, 0528, 0591 | ||
| Website | www |
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Coevorden (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkuvɔrdən] (
listen); Dutch Low Saxon: Koevern) is a municipality and a city in the northeastern Netherlands. During the municipal reorganisation in the province in 1998, Coevorden merged with Dalen, Sleen, Oosterhesselen and Zweeloo.
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Etymology
The name Coevorden means "cow ford(s)" or "cow crossing", similar to Bosporus or Oxford.[5]
History
Coevorden received city rights in 1408.
The city was reconstructed in the early seventeenth century by Maurice, Prince of Orange to an ideal city design, similar to Palmanova. The streets were laid out in a radial pattern within polygonal fortifications and extensive outer earthworks.
The city of Coevorden may have indirectly given its name to the city of Vancouver, which is named after the 18th-century British explorer George Vancouver. The explorer's ancestors (and family name) may have originally come to England "from Coevorden" (van Coevorden > Vancoevorden > Vancouver).[5] There is also a family of nobility with the surname van Coeverden, sometimes spelled with a K (as with Canadian kayaker Adam van Koeverden).
Geography
Coervorden is located at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. in the south of the province of Drenthe in the east of the Netherlands.
The population centres in the municipality are:
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- Aalden
- Achterste Erm
- Ballast
- Benneveld
- Bovensteenwijksmoer
- Coevorden
- Dalen
- Dalerpeel
- Dalerveen
- De Bente
- De Haar
- De Kiel
- De Mars
- Den Hool
- Diphoorn
- Eldijk
- Erm
- Gees
- Geesbrug
- Grevenberg
- 't Haantje
- Holsloot
- Hoogehaar
- Kibbelveen
- Klooster
- Langerak
- Meppen
- Nieuwe Krim
- Nieuwlande
- Noord-Sleen
- Oosterhesselen
- Padhuis
- Pikveld
- Schimmelarij
- Schoonoord
- Sleen
- Steenwijksmoer
- Stieltjeskanaal
- Valsteeg
- Veenhuizen
- Vlieghuis
- Vossebelt
- Wachtum
- Weijerswold
- Wezup
- Wezuperbrug
- Zweeloo
- Zwinderen
International relations
Coevorden is twinned with:
Transportation
There is one railway station in the municipality:
See also
Fantasy Gardens's Coevorden Castle was donated by Coevorden to Expo 86 and later relocated to the current site.
References
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