History of Overijssel

ecclesiastic state of the Holy Roman Empire

Nieuwlande (Dutch Low Saxon: Neilaande) is a Dutch village located in the north-eastern province of Drenthe situated in the municipality of Hoogeveen. The population, as of 2023 is 1419. Nieuwlande is one of only two villages in the world that collectively received the Righteous Among the Nations award for its Holocaust Rescue story where nearly all of the town's residents hid and saved the lives of hundreds of Jews as well as resistance fighters and German deserters during World War II.

2000 fireworks explosion

bank robbery and subsequent two-day hostage taking in West Germany and the Netherlands in August 1988

feudal dominion of the Netherlands (1528–1798)

thumb|Location of Bouches-de-l'Yssel in France (1812) '''Bouches-de-l'Yssel''' (; "Mouths of the IJssel"; ) was a department of the First French Empire in the present-day Netherlands. It was formed in 1810, when the Kingdom of Holland was annexed by France. Its territory corresponded with the present-day Dutch province of Overijssel. Its capital was Zwolle.

by George van Lalaing, better known as the count of Rennenberg

siege in 1591

diocese of the Catholic Church

1626 siege during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War

1580 siege