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Valkenswaard
Sign in to saveTemporar sculptures in front of the townhall|thumb|280px Valkenswaard () is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands, in the Metropoolregio Eindhoven of the province of North Brabant. The municipality had a population of in , with an area of of which is water.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Valkenswaard
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- Municipality
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- Valkenswaard - Markt 53 St. Nicolaaskerk.JPG
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- Church in Valkenswaard
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- Flag of Valkenswaard.svg
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- 100x67px
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- Valkenswaard wapen.svg
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- 100x80px
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- Map - NL - Municipality code 0858 (2009).svg
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- Highlighted position of Valkenswaard in a municipal map of North Brabant
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- Location in North Brabant
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- Country
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- Netherlands
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- Province
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- North Brabant
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- Municipal council
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- VVD
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- Mayor
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Partner municipalities
- Notable people born in Valkenswaard
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Temporar sculptures in front of the townhall|thumb|280px Valkenswaard () is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands, in the Metropoolregio Eindhoven of the province of North Brabant. The municipality had a population of in , with an area of of which is water.
The name Valkenswaard stems from its history of falconers, who caught wild falcons there; valk is Dutch for "falcon". It lay on a route where falcons migrated south each year. In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, Valkenswaardian falconers were active at many European courts, in which falconing was a beloved pastime. Valkenswaard's falcon-catching area has now been built over and falcons are no longer caught there.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Valkenswaard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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