Bommelerwaard is a district in Gelderland, Netherlands.
The Bommelerwaard is situated among three rivers: the Meuse (Dutch : Maas) in the south(east), the Waal in the north and the Afgedamde Maas in the west. It is formed by the area of two municipalities: Zaltbommel and Maasdriel.
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The Afgedamde Maas is a former distributary of the Maas River in the Dutch provinces of North Brabant and Gelderland. The Maas splits near Heusden with one channel flowing north until its confluence with the river Waal to form the Merwede, while the other channel continues west as the main distributary of the Maas.
The Elm is a range of hills north of the Harz mountains in the Helmstedt and Wolfenbüttel districts of Lower Saxony, Germany. It has a length of about 25 km (15.5 mi) and a width of 3–8 km (2–5 mi) and rises to an elevation of 323 meters. Surrounded by the Northern European Lowlands, the Elm is almost uninhabited and the largest beech forest in Northern Germany. The hills are of a triassic limestone called Elmkalkstein. Together with the neighbouring Lappwald range, the Elm has been a protected nature park since 1977.
The Ameralik Span is the longest span of an electrical overhead power line in the world. It is situated near Nuuk on Greenland and crosses Ameralik fjord with a span width of 5,376 m (17,638 ft) at 64°6′18″N51°14′16″W. It was built in 1993 by the Norwegian company NTE Entreprise and is part of a single-circuit 132 kV powerline running from Buksefjord hydroelectric power plant to Nuuk.
The Kom(m)ödchen is a cabaret stage in Düsseldorf.
Gmina Rościszewo is a rural gmina in Sierpc County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Rościszewo, which lies approximately 9 kilometres (5 mi) north-east of Sierpc and 112 km (69 mi) north-west of Warsaw
Sumağava is a village in the Davachi Rayon of Azerbaijan. The village forms part of the municipality of Pirəbədil.
Mirzələr is a village in the Shusha District of Azerbaijan. Until 2020 it was controlled by the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh.
Cefn Saeson is a mixed, English-medium comprehensive school in the Cimla suburb of Neath, Wales. The school serves 11 to 16-year-olds living in Cimla, Tonna, Tonmawr, Pontrhydyfen and parts of Neath. The school is located on Afan Valley Road. A new school was built in 2021 on the football field of the existing school dating from the early 1970's and now demolished. 'Cefn' can have a meaning in English of mountain ridge and 'Saeson' means Englishman. The school motto is 'Bid Ben, Bid Bont'
Guangzhou North railway station is a railway station in Huadu District in northern Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, opened in 1908.
Donja Kravarica is a village in the municipality of Lučani, Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 358 people.
Kaasiku is a village in Mustvee Parish, Jõgeva County in eastern Estonia.
The Heusden Canal is a canal on the border of the Dutch provinces North Brabant and Gelderland, roughly between Wijk en Aalburg and Heusden. The canal connects the Afgedamde Maas and Bergse Maas and has a total length of approximately 2.3 km. The canal used to connect the city of Heusden to the main branch of the river Meuse. Later on, the original main branch was closed off and the river received a new, artificial mouth: the Bergse Maas. After that, the Heusden Canal was improved to maintain a shipping connection between the two Meuse branches.
Kopitarce is a village in the municipality of Vladičin Han, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 75 people.
Neuenburg Castle is a hilltop castle in the south of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, on the spur-like foothills of a plateau above the eastern bank of the river Unstrut. Below the castle to the north lies the wine-growing town of Freyburg, which in turn is about seven kilometers north of Naumburg (Saale). The castle is a stop on the Romanesque Road, a route through the state of significant cultural and historic sites.The castle is owned and managed by the Saxony-Anhalt Cultural Foundation.
Khnusik(Armenian: Խնուսիկ) is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It has hot summers and a humid continental climate.
The Nijmegen Quarter was the first of the four quarters in which the county, later Duchy of Guelders was divided, as they were separated by rivers. In addition Guelders consisted of Zutphen Quarter, the Upper Quarter and Veluwe Quarter. Each quarter had its own capital.
The Kil Hurwenen, or De Kil as locals call it, is a nature reserve in the floodplain of the Waal at Hurwenen in the Netherlands in the municipality of Maasdriel.
Hurry is an unincorporated community in St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States.
The siege of Zaltbommel was a campaign that took place during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War from 15 May to 22 July 1599. The Spanish led by Francisco López de Mendoza y Mendoza launched an offensive campaign around Bommelerwaard, which was defended by an Anglo-Dutch force under the command of Maurice of Orange. A siege on the town of Zaltbommel by Spanish troops was attempted but they had to lift the siege and were defeated in subsequent attempts to regain the initiative. Mendoza retreated and the Spanish army then found itself in chaos: mutinies took effect and as a result further operations were suspended for a number of years. As a result, the Dutch and English followed with a counter-offensive in the Spanish Netherlands.
Sərkərli is a village in the Khachmaz Rayon of Azerbaijan. It was founded in the nineteenth century as an Eastern Orthodox village of Borispol by migrants from what is now central Ukraine. The original population gradually left; the village was resettled by ethnic Azeris from neighbouring villages and renamed Sərkərli in 1992. The village forms part of the municipality of Yergüc. An archaeological site containing early-Bronze Age artifacts and an eighth-century burial site was discovered nearby.
