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Coevorden
Summary
Coevorden (ˈkuvɔrdə(n); Koevern) is a city and municipality in the province of Drenthe, Netherlands. During the 1998 municipal reorganisation in the province, Coevorden merged with Dalen, Sleen, Oosterhesselen and Zweeloo, retaining its name. In August 2017, it had a population of 35,267.
The name Coevorden means "cow ford(s)" or "cow crossing", similar to Bosporus or Oxford.
Coevorden received city rights in 1408. It is the oldest city in the province of Drenthe.
The city was captured from the Spanish in 1592 by a Dutch and English force under the command of Maurice, Prince of Orange. The following year it was besieged by a Spanish force but the city held out until its relief in May 1594. Coevorden was then reconstructed in the early seventeenth century 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 indirectly gave its name to both Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and Vancouver, Washington, named after the 18th-century British explorer George Vancouver. The explorer's ancestors (and family name) originally came to England "from Coevorden" (van Coevern in Dutch Low Saxon). There is also a family of nobility with the surname van Coeverden, sometimes spelled with a K (as with Canadian kayaker Adam van Koeverden).
Coervorden is located at in the south of the province of Drenthe in the east of the Netherlands.
The population centres in the municipality are:
Aalden
Achterste Erm
Ballast
Benneveld
Coevorden
Dalen
Dalerpeel
Dalerveen
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
Coevorden is twinned with:
There are two railway stations in the municipality:
Coevorden railway station
Dalen railway station
Johannes Benedictus van Heutsz (1851-1924).
Official source
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