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Babyloniënbroek
Sign in to saveBabyloniënbroek is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is in the municipality of Altena, about 7 km northwest of the city of Waalwijk.
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Place details
- Locality
- Babyloniënbroek
- Region
- Noord-Brabant
- Country
- Nederland
- Population
- 422
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Babyloniënbroek
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- nl
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Image:20070705Korenschoof.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Church in Babyloniënbroek
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Netherlands North Brabant#Netherlands
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Netherlands
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North Brabant
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Altena
- Settlement.elevation_m
- -0.1
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 8.70
- Settlement.population_total
- 425
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2021
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Babyloniënbroek is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is in the municipality of Altena, about 7 km northwest of the city of Waalwijk.
Babyloniënbroek consists of a single street, and has about 400 inhabitants. The name Babylon has the suffix Broek added. 'Broek' is a word linked to the root of the English word, 'Brook' for stream or the springs of a stream, and the meaning in Dutch is very similar, meaning swamp or swampy. The village was first mentioned in 1131 as Babilonia. Babyloniënbroek is a linear settlement which started as a cultivation project by the monastery of Sint-Truiden around 1130 alongside a canal which no longer exists.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Babyloniënbroek” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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