Naaldwijk, Sliedrecht

Last updated April 26, 2019

Naaldwijk is a former municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland.

The Netherlands is a country located mainly in Northwestern Europe. The European portion of the Netherlands consists of twelve separate provinces that border Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, with maritime borders in the North Sea with Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. Together with three island territories in the Caribbean Sea—Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba— it forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The official language is Dutch, but a secondary official language in the province of Friesland is West Frisian.

South 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 1,300/km² (3,400/sq mi), making it the country's most populous province and one of the world's most densely populated areas. Situated on the North Sea in the west of the Netherlands, South Holland covers an area of 3,403 km² (1,314 sq mi), of which 585 km² (226 sq mi) is water. It borders North Holland to the north, Utrecht and Gelderland to the east, and North Brabant and Zeeland to the south. The provincial capital is The Hague, while its largest city is Rotterdam.

The municipality only existed from April 1, 1817 to August 23, 1818. Before and after that time, the area was part of Sliedrecht.^[1]

Sliedrechtlisten is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 14.01 km² (5.41 sq mi) of which 1.18 km² (0.46 sq mi) is covered by water.

According to the 19th-century historian A.J. van der Aa,^[2] Naaldwijk used to be a separate manor to the east of Sliedrecht, but had already been unified with Sliedrecht for so long, that the boundaries of the manor were no longer known.

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References

↑ Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 20, 2007. Retrieved December 3, 2009.
↑ Abraham Jacob van der Aa , "Aardrijkskundig woordenboek der Nederlanden", vol. 8 (N/O), 1846.

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[1] Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 20, 2007. Retrieved December 3, 2009.

[2] Abraham Jacob van der Aa , "Aardrijkskundig woordenboek der Nederlanden", vol. 8 (N/O), 1846.