Steenbergen (disambiguation)

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Steenbergen is a town and municipality in North Brabant, the Netherlands. Steenbergen may also refer to

Steenbergen Municipality in North Brabant, Netherlands

Steenbergen is a municipality and a town in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. The municipality had a population of 24,815 in 2017 and covers an area of 159.14 km2 (61.44 sq mi) of which 12.48 km2 (4.82 sq mi) is water. The municipality is mainly agricultural including a strongly growing greenhouse sector, but Steenbergen and the nearby town of Dinteloord also contain some light industry. A new stretch of A4 motorway under construction is expected to further increase the municipality's attractiveness, allowing easy connections with the large cities of Rotterdam to the north and the Belgian city of Antwerp to the south. The connection with the nearby city of Bergen op Zoom will also be improved as a result.

Battle of Steenbergen (1583)

The Battle of Steenbergen, also known as the Capture of Steenbergen of 1583, took place on 17 June 1583 at Steenbergen, Duchy of Brabant, Spanish Netherlands, and was an important victory of the Spanish Army of Flanders led by Don Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Governor-General of the Spanish Netherlands, over the French, English, and Dutch forces led by the French Marshal Armand de Gontaut, Baron de Biron, and the English commander Sir John Norreys, during the Eighty Years' War, the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604), and in the context of the French Wars of Religion. The victory of the Spaniards ended the Treaty of Plessis-les-Tours, and Francis, Duke of Anjou (French: François de France), left the Netherlands in late June.

Steenbergen, Noordenveld Place in Drenthe, Netherlands

Steenbergen [ˈsteːmbɛrɣə(n)] is a village in the Netherlands and it is part of the Noordenveld municipality in Drenthe. Steenbergen has an altitude of about 3 meters.

Steenbergen or Van Steenbergen is a Dutch and Belgian toponymic surname, indicating an origin in any number of places called "stone hills", like the city of Steenbergen, North Brabant or the village Steenbergen in Drenthe. People with the surname include:

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