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Utrecht (province)

Index Utrecht (province)

Utrecht is a province of the Netherlands. [1]

87 relations: Amersfoort, Baarn, Bunnik, Bunschoten, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Castellum, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Coalition agreement, Concordat of Worms, County of Holland, De Bilt, De Ronde Venen, Diet (assembly), Duke of Burgundy, Dutch Republic, Dutch Revolt, Eemmeer, Eemnes, Episcopal principality of Utrecht, First Rutte cabinet, First Utrecht Civil War, Flevoland, Franks, Frisians, Gelderland, Gerrit Rietveld, Guelders, Heath, Holy Roman Empire, Holy See, Hook and Cod wars, House of Habsburg, Houten, IJsselstein, International Organization for Standardization, ISO 3166-2:NL, King's Commissioner, Langs de Vecht en d'oude Rijnstroom, Lek (river), Leusden, Lopik, Montfoort, Moraine, Netherlands, Nieuwegein, North Holland, Ottonian dynasty, Oudewater, Peat, People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, ..., Pepin of Herstal, Philip II of Spain, Piet Mondrian, Pine, Plantation, Pope Adrian VI, Pope Clement VII, Pope Sergius I, Provinces of the Netherlands, Quaternary glaciation, Randstad, Renswoude, Rhenen, Rhine, Rome, Sack of Rome (1527), Second Utrecht Civil War, Soest, Netherlands, South Holland, Stichtse Vecht, Theo van Doesburg, Utrecht, Utrecht Hill Ridge, Utrechtse Heuvelrug, Vecht (Utrecht), Vechtstreek, Veenendaal, Vianen, Vikings, Wijk bij Duurstede, Willibrord, Willibrord van Beek, Woerden, World War II, World Wide Fund for Nature, Woudenberg, Zeist. Expand index (37 more) »

Amersfoort

Amersfoort is a city and municipality in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands.

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Baarn

Baarn is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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Bunnik

Bunnik is a municipality and a village in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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Bunschoten

Bunschoten is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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C. H. D. Buys Ballot

Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot (October 10, 1817 – February 3, 1890) was a Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys Ballot's law and the Buys Ballot table are named.

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Castellum

A castellum in Latin is usually.

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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V (Carlos; Karl; Carlo; Karel; Carolus; 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was ruler of both the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and the Spanish Empire (as Charles I of Spain) from 1516, as well as of the lands of the former Duchy of Burgundy from 1506.

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Coalition agreement

In multiparty democracies, a coalition agreement is an agreement between the parties that form the cabinet.

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Concordat of Worms

The Concordat of Worms (Concordatum Wormatiense), sometimes called the Pactum Calixtinum by papal historians, was an agreement between Pope Callixtus II and Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor on September 23, 1122, near the city of Worms.

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County of Holland

The County of Holland was a State of the Holy Roman Empire and from 1432 part of the Burgundian Netherlands, from 1482 part of the Habsburg Netherlands and from 1648 onward, Holland was the leading province of the Dutch Republic, of which it remained a part until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.

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De Bilt

De Bilt is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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De Ronde Venen

De Ronde Venen is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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Diet (assembly)

In politics, a diet is a formal deliberative assembly.

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Duke of Burgundy

Duke of Burgundy (duc de Bourgogne) was a title borne by the rulers of the Duchy of Burgundy, a small portion of traditional lands of Burgundians west of river Saône which in 843 was allotted to Charles the Bald's kingdom of West Franks.

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Dutch Republic

The Dutch Republic was a republic that existed from the formal creation of a confederacy in 1581 by several Dutch provinces (which earlier seceded from the Spanish rule) until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.

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Dutch Revolt

The Dutch Revolt (1568–1648)This article adopts 1568 as the starting date of the war, as this was the year of the first battles between armies.

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Eemmeer

The Eemmeer is a lake situated in the middle of the Netherlands between the provinces of Flevoland, Utrecht, and North Holland.

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Eemnes

Eemnes is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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Episcopal principality of Utrecht

The Bishopric of Utrecht (1024–1528) was a civil principality of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries, in present Netherlands, which was ruled by the bishops of Utrecht as princes of the Holy Roman Empire.

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First Rutte cabinet

The First Rutte cabinet, also called the Rutte–Verhagen cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 14 October 2010 until 5 November 2012.

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First Utrecht Civil War

The First Utrecht Civil War (also called the Burgundy-Van Brederode conflict) took place between 1470 and 1474 when the Hook and Cod wars spilled over into the Bishopric of Utrecht.

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Flevoland

Flevoland is the twelfth and last province of the Netherlands, established on 1 January 1986, when the southern and eastern Flevopolders were merged into one provincial entity.

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Franks

The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum) were a collection of Germanic peoples, whose name was first mentioned in 3rd century Roman sources, associated with tribes on the Lower and Middle Rhine in the 3rd century AD, on the edge of the Roman Empire.

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Frisians

The Frisians are a Germanic ethnic group indigenous to the coastal parts of the Netherlands and northwestern Germany.

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Gelderland

Gelderland (also Guelders in English) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the central eastern part of the country.

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Gerrit Rietveld

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.

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Guelders

Guelders or Gueldres (Gelre, Geldern) is a historical county, later duchy of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the Low Countries.

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Heath

A heath is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation.

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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire (Sacrum Romanum Imperium; Heiliges Römisches Reich) was a multi-ethnic but mostly German complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806.

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Holy See

The Holy See (Santa Sede; Sancta Sedes), also called the See of Rome, is the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, the episcopal see of the Pope, and an independent sovereign entity.

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Hook and Cod wars

The Hook and Cod wars (Hoekse en Kabeljauwse twisten) comprise a series of wars and battles in the County of Holland between 1350 and 1490.

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House of Habsburg

The House of Habsburg (traditionally spelled Hapsburg in English), also called House of Austria was one of the most influential and distinguished royal houses of Europe.

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Houten

Houten is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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IJsselstein

IJsselstein is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.

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ISO 3166-2:NL

ISO 3166-2:NL is the entry for the Netherlands in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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King's Commissioner

The King’s Commissioner (Commissaris van de Koning, abbreviated to CvdK) is the head of a province in the Netherlands.

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Langs de Vecht en d'oude Rijnstroom

Langs de Vecht en d'oude Rijnstroom is the provincial anthem of Utrecht, Netherlands.

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Lek (river)

The Lek is a river in the western Netherlands of some 60 km in length.

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Leusden

Leusden is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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Lopik

Lopik is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht, close to the river Lek.

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Montfoort

Montfoort is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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Moraine

A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (regolith and rock) that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions on Earth (i.e. a past glacial maximum), through geomorphological processes.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Nieuwegein

Nieuwegein is a municipality and city in the Dutch province of Utrecht.

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North Holland

North Holland (Noord-Holland, West Frisian Dutch: Noard-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands located in the northwestern part of the country.

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Ottonian dynasty

The Ottonian dynasty (Ottonen) was a Saxon dynasty of German monarchs (919–1024), named after three of its kings and Holy Roman Emperors named Otto, especially its first Emperor Otto I. It is also known as the Saxon dynasty after the family's origin in the German stem duchy of Saxony.

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Oudewater

Oudewater is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands.

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Peat

Peat, also called turf, is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter that is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs.

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People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie, VVD) is a conservative-liberal political party in the Netherlands.

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Pepin of Herstal

Pepin II (c. 635 – 16 December 714), commonly known as Pepin of Herstal, was a Frankish statesman and military leader who de facto ruled Francia as the Mayor of the Palace from 680 until his death.

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Philip II of Spain

Philip II (Felipe II; 21 May 1527 – 13 September 1598), called "the Prudent" (el Prudente), was King of Spain (1556–98), King of Portugal (1581–98, as Philip I, Filipe I), King of Naples and Sicily (both from 1554), and jure uxoris King of England and Ireland (during his marriage to Queen Mary I from 1554–58).

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Piet Mondrian

Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (later; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus,, of the family Pinaceae.

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Plantation

A plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops.

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Pope Adrian VI

Pope Adrian VI (Hadrianus VI), born Adriaan Florensz Boeyens (2 March 1459 – 14 September 1523), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 January 1522 until his death on 14 September 1523.

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Pope Clement VII

Pope Clement VII (26 May 1478 – 25 September 1534), born Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 November 1523 to his death on 25 September 1534.

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Pope Sergius I

Pope Sergius I (8 September 701) was Pope from December 15, 687 to his death in 701.

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Provinces of the Netherlands

There are currently twelve provinces of the Netherlands, representing the administrative layer between the national government and the local municipalities, with responsibility for matters of subnational or regional importance.

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Quaternary glaciation

The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Quaternary Ice Age or Pleistocene glaciation, is a series of glacial events separated by interglacial events during the Quaternary period from 2.58 Ma (million years ago) to present.

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Randstad

The Randstad is a megalopolis in the central-western Netherlands consisting primarily of the four largest Dutch cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht) and their surrounding areas.

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Renswoude

Renswoude is a municipality and a town in the central Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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Rhenen

Rhenen is a municipality and a city in the central Netherlands.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine (Rhenus, Rein, Rhein, le Rhin,, Italiano: Reno, Rijn) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Sack of Rome (1527)

The Sack of Rome on 6 May 1527 was a military event carried out in Rome (then part of the Papal States) by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Second Utrecht Civil War

The Second Utrecht Civil War took place between 1481 and 1483.

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Soest, Netherlands

Soest is a municipality and a town in the central Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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South Holland

South Holland (Zuid-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands with a population of just over 3.6 million as of 2015 and a population density of about, making it the country's most populous province and one of the world's most densely populated areas.

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Stichtse Vecht

Stichtse Vecht is a municipality of the Netherlands and lies in the northwestern part of the province of Utrecht.

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Theo van Doesburg

Theo van Doesburg (30 August 1883 – 7 March 1931) was a Dutch artist, who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture.

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Utrecht

Utrecht is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht.

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Utrecht Hill Ridge

Utrecht Hill Ridge (Utrechtse Heuvelrug) is a ridge of low sandhills that stretches in a direction from southeast to northwest over the Dutch province of Utrecht and over a part of North Holland.

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Utrechtse Heuvelrug

Utrechtse Heuvelrug (Utrecht Hill Ridge) is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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Vecht (Utrecht)

The Vecht is a Rhine branch in the Dutch province of Utrecht.

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Vechtstreek

The Vechtstreek (Dutch for "Vecht area") is a region in the Dutch provinces of Utrecht and North Holland along the Vecht River between the towns of Utrecht and Amsterdam.

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Veenendaal

Veenendaal is a municipality and a town in central Netherlands, it is part of the province of Utrecht.

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Vianen

Vianen is a municipality and a city in the central Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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Vikings

Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.

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Wijk bij Duurstede

Wijk bij Duurstede is a municipality and a city in the central Netherlands.

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Willibrord

Willibrord (658 – 7 November AD 739) was a Northumbrian missionary saint, known as the "Apostle to the Frisians" in the modern Netherlands.

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Willibrord van Beek

Willibrordus Ildefonsus Ignatius "Willibrord" van Beek (born 15 January 1949) is a Dutch politician serving as the King's Commissioner of Utrecht since 15 September 2013.

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Woerden

Woerden is a city and a municipality in the central Netherlands.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of the wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human impact on the environment.

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Woudenberg

Woudenberg is a municipality and a town in the central Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

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Zeist

Zeist is a municipality and a town in the central Netherlands, located east of the city of Utrecht.

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Province of Utrecht, Utrecht (provincie), Utrecht Province, Utrecht province.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utrecht_(province)

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