Geldern, the Glossary
Geldern (Gelderen, archaic English: Guelder(s)) is a city in the federal German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.[1]
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- Kleve (district)
Anne van Bonn
Anne van Bonn (born 12 October 1985 in Geldern, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German footballer.
Augustinians
Augustinians are members of several religious orders that follow the Rule of Saint Augustine, written in about 400 AD by Augustine of Hippo.
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.
Autobahn
The Autobahn (German plural) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany.
Benedictus Buns
Benedictus Buns, Benedictus à sancto Josepho (born Buns; also Buns Gelriensis in Latin; 1642 – 6 December 1716), was a Carmelite priest and composer.
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Bergen, Limburg
Bergen (Baerge) is a municipality and a village in south-eastern Netherlands.
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Björn Böhning
Björn Böhning (born 2 June 1978) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs under the leadership of minister Hubertus Heil from 2018 to 2022.
Bomb
A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy.
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Borough
A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries.
Bree, Belgium
Bree (Brée) is a city and municipality in the Flemish province of Limburg, Belgium.
Bundesautobahn 40
, (named A 430 until the early 1990s) is one of the most used Autobahns in Germany.
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Bundesautobahn 57
is a German Autobahn that begins at the Dutch-German border near Goch and ends in Köln.
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Bundesstraße 9
The Bundesstraße 9 (abbr. B9) is a German federal highway.
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Canal
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi).
Cardinal direction
The four cardinal directions, or cardinal points, are the four main compass directions: north, south, east, and west, commonly denoted by their initials N, S, E, and W respectively.
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Carmelites
The Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Ordo Fratrum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ de Monte Carmelo; abbreviated OCarm), known as the Carmelites or sometimes by synecdoche known simply as Carmel, is a mendicant order in the Roman Catholic Church for both men and women.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Christmas market
A Christmas market is a street market associated with the celebration of Christmas during the four weeks of Advent.
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Cologne
Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region. Geldern and Cologne are members of the Hanseatic League.
County
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL.
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany.
Düsseldorf (region)
Düsseldorf is one of the five Regierungsbezirke of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, located in the north-west of the country.
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Düsseldorf Airport
Düsseldorf Airport (Flughafen Düsseldorf), known as Düsseldorf International Airport until March 2013, is an international airport serving Düsseldorf, the capital of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Deutsche Bahn
The Deutsche Bahn AG (abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany, and a state-owned enterprise under the control of the German government.
Dragon
A dragon is a magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide.
Duchy
A duchy, also called a dukedom, is a country, territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess, a ruler hierarchically second to the king or queen in Western European tradition.
Duchy of Guelders
The Duchy of Guelders (Gelre, Gueldre, Geldern) is a historical duchy, previously county, of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the Low Countries.
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Duchy of Jülich
The Duchy of Jülich (Herzogtum Jülich; Hertogdom Gulik; Duché de Juliers) comprised a state within the Holy Roman Empire from the 11th to the 18th centuries.
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Duchy of Limburg
The Duchy of Limburg or Limbourg was an imperial estate of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Dutch Republic
The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) and commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.
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Escutcheon (heraldry)
In heraldry, an escutcheon is a shield that forms the main or focal element in an achievement of arms.
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Fair
A fair (archaic: faire or fayre) is a gathering of people for a variety of entertainment or commercial activities.
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Fürstenberg/Havel
Fürstenberg is a town in the Oberhavel district, Brandenburg, Germany.
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Fief
A fief (feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law.
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First French Empire
The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.
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Fortification
A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime.
Fossa Eugeniana
The Fossa Eugeniana or Spanish Rhine-Maas canal was a large-scale ambitious project of the Spanish-Dutch Eighty Years' War planned by the then Spanish regent in Brussels, Isabella Clara Eugenia, after whom it was named, during the years 1626–1630.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Francia
The Kingdom of the Franks (Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.
Frederick the Great
Frederick II (Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786.
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French First Republic
In the history of France, the First Republic (Première République), sometimes referred to in historiography as Revolutionary France, and officially the French Republic (République française), was founded on 21 September 1792 during the French Revolution.
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Gelderland
Gelderland, also known as Guelders in English, is a province of the Netherlands, occupying the centre-east of the country.
Geldern-Kapellen
Kapellen an der Fleuth is a village of about 2600 people in northwest Germany near the border of the Netherlands.
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Gelderner Fleuth
Gelderner Fleuth (pronounced) is an approximately long, non-navigable, tributary of the Niers in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.
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Habsburg Netherlands
Habsburg Netherlands was the Renaissance period fiefs in the Low Countries held by the Holy Roman Empire's House of Habsburg.
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Height above mean sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level.
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Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry II (Heinrich II; Enrico II; 6 May 973 – 13 July 1024), also known as Saint Henry, Obl. S. B., was Holy Roman Emperor ("Romanorum Imperator") from 1014.
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International E-road network
The international E-road network is a numbering system for roads in Europe developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
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Issum
Issum is a municipality in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geldern and Issum are Kleve (district).
Johannes Oerding
Johannes Oerding (born 26 December 1981) is a German singer-songwriter.
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Josef Veltjens
Josef "Seppl" Veltjens (2 June 1894 – 6 October 1943) was a German World War I fighter ace credited with 35 victories.
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Kerken
Kerken with the towns of Aldekerk, Eyll, Nieukerk and Stenden, is a municipality in the district of Kleve in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geldern and Kerken are Kleve (district).
Kevelaer
Kevelaer (Low Rhenish: Käwela) is a town in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. Geldern and Kevelaer are Kleve (district) and towns in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Kleve
Kleve (traditional Cleves; Kleef; Clèves; Cléveris; Clivia; Low Rhenish: Kleff) is a town in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern Germany near the Dutch border and the River Rhine. Geldern and Kleve are Kleve (district) and towns in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Kleve (district)
Kleve (Cleves in English use) or Kreis Kleve is a Kreis (local-government district) in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Krefeld
Krefeld (Krieëvel), also spelled Crefeld until 1925 (though the spelling was still being used in British papers throughout the Second World War), is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Lotharingia
Lotharingia was a medieval successor kingdom of the Carolingian Empire.
Lower Lotharingia
The Duchy of Lower Lotharingia, also called Northern Lotharingia, Lower Lorraine or Northern Lorraine (and also referred to as Lothier or Lottier in titles), was a stem duchy established in 959, of the medieval Kingdom of Germany, which encompassed almost all of modern Belgium, Luxemburg, the northern part of the German Rhineland province and the eastern parts of France's Nord-Pas de Calais region, it also include almost all of modern Netherlands (the region of Frisia and the rest of the Netherlands was loosely associated with the duchy but duke exercised no de facto control over the territory).
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Lower Rhine
Lower Rhine (Niederrhein,; kilometres 660 to 1,033 of the Rhine) refers to the section of the Rhine between Bonn in Germany and the North Sea at Hook of Holland in the Netherlands, including the Nederrijn (Nether Rhine) within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta; alternatively, Lower Rhine may also refer to just the part upstream of Pannerdens Kop (km 660–865.5), excluding the Nederrijn.
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection.
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Max Pfeffer
Max Pfeffer (7 June 1883 – 31 December 1955) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the IV Army Corps.
Mespilus
Mespilus, commonly called medlar, is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae containing the single species Mespilus germanica of southwest Asia.
Mespilus germanica
Mespilus germanica, known as the medlar or common medlar, is a large shrub or small tree in the rose family Rosaceae.
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Meuse
The Meuse (Moûze) or Maas (Maos or Maas) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Middle Francia
Middle Francia (Francia media) was a short-lived Frankish kingdom which was created in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun after an intermittent civil war between the grandsons of Charlemagne resulted in division of the united empire.
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Moers
Moers (older form: Mörs; Dutch: Murse, Murs or Meurs) is a German city on the western bank of the Rhine, close to Duisburg.
Monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).
Narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
Niers
The Niers is a river in Germany and The Netherlands, a right tributary of the river Maas (Meuse).
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a state (Land) in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the most populous state in Germany. Apart from the city-states, it is also the most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of, it is the fourth-largest German state by size.
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Peace of Utrecht
The Peace of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht between April 1713 and February 1715.
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Population
Population is the term typically used to refer to the number of people in a single area.
Pour le Mérite
The Pour le Mérite, also informally known as the "Blue Max", is an order of merit (Verdienstorden) established in 1740 by King Frederick II of Prussia.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg
The Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (Provinz Jülich-Kleve-Berg) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1822.
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Provinces of the Netherlands
There are twelve provinces of the Netherlands representing the administrative layer between the national government and the local governments, with responsibility for matters of subnational or regional importance.
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Prussia
Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.
Prussian Guelders
Prussian Guelders or Prussian G(u)elderland (Pruisisch Gelre; Preußisch Geldern) was the part of the Duchy of Guelders ruled by the Kingdom of Prussia from 1713.
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Rail transport
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.
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Rees, Germany
Rees is a town in the district of Kleve in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geldern and Rees, Germany are Kleve (district) and towns in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Refectory
A refectory (also frater, frater house, fratery) is a dining room, especially in monasteries, boarding schools and academic institutions.
Regierungsbezirk
A Regierungsbezirk means "governmental district" and is a type of administrative division in Germany.
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Rheinberg
Rheinberg is a town in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geldern and Rheinberg are towns in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Rhine
--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.
Rhine Province
The Rhine Province (Rheinprovinz), also known as Rhenish Prussia (Rheinpreußen) or synonymous with the Rhineland (Rheinland), was the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, from 1822 to 1945.
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Rhineland
The Rhineland (Rheinland; Rhénanie; Rijnland; Rhingland; Latinised name: Rhenania) is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.
Roer (department)
Roer was a department of the French First Republic and later First French Empire in present-day Germany and the Netherlands.
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Schloss Haag
Castle Haag (Schloss Haag) was a moated castle in the Rhineland region of Germany.
Secularization
In sociology, secularization (secularisation) is a multilayered concept that generally denotes "a transition from a religious to a more worldly level." There are many types of secularization and most do not lead to atheism, irreligion, nor are they automatically antithetical to religion.
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Sister city
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.
Sonsbeck
Sonsbeck is a municipality in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Spanish Netherlands
The Spanish Netherlands (Países Bajos Españoles; Spaanse Nederlanden; Pays-Bas espagnols; Spanische Niederlande) (historically in Spanish: Flandes, the name "Flanders" was used as a pars pro toto) was the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to 1714.
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Spear
A spear is a polearm consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.
States of Germany
The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen states.
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Straelen
Straelen (Low Rhenish: Strale) is a municipality in the district of Cleves, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geldern and Straelen are Kleve (district) and towns in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Street painting
Street painting, also known as screeving, pavement art, street art, and sidewalk art, is the performance art of rendering artistic designs on pavement such as streets, sidewalks, and town squares with impermanent and semi-permanent materials such as chalk.
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Suzie Kerstgens
Suzie Kerstgens (born 1971) is a German singer and lyricist.
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Teisterbant
Teisterbant was a pagus (province) of Lotharingia/Middle Francia.
Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth (born 11 October 1954) is a German photographer who is best known for his Museum Photographs series, black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York taken in the 1970s, and his family photographs series.
Town privileges
Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium.
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Upper Guelders
Upper Guelders or Spanish Guelders was one of the four quarters in the Imperial Duchy of Guelders.
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Venlo
Venlo is a city and municipality in southeastern Netherlands, close to the border with Germany.
War of the Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714.
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Wassenberg
Wassenberg (Wasseberg) is a town in the district Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geldern and Wassenberg are towns in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Weeze Airport
Weeze Airport, less commonly known as Niederrhein Airport, is a minor international airport in the Lower Rhine region of Germany.
Whitsun
Whitsun (also Whitsunday or Whit Sunday) is the name used in Britain, and other countries among Anglicans and Methodists, for the Christian holy day of Pentecost.
Windmill
A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but in some parts of the English-speaking world, the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications.
World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Xenia Seeberg
Xenia Seeberg (born Anke Wesenberg; 4 April 1967) is a German film and television actress.
See also
Kleve (district)
- Bedburg-Hau
- Diebels
- Emmerich am Rhein
- Geldern
- Goch
- Issum
- Kalkar
- Kerken
- Kevelaer
- Kleve
- Kleve (district)
- Kleve (electoral district)
- Klever Reichswald
- Kranenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Parookaville
- Rees, Germany
- Rheurdt
- Straelen
- Uedem
- Wachtendonk
- Wankum
- Weeze
- Wunderland Kalkar
- Wyler, North Rhine-Westphalia
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geldern
Also known as Geldern (Stadt).
, Johannes Oerding, Josef Veltjens, Kerken, Kevelaer, Kleve, Kleve (district), Krefeld, Lotharingia, Lower Lotharingia, Lower Rhine, Mary Magdalene, Max Pfeffer, Mespilus, Mespilus germanica, Meuse, Middle Ages, Middle Francia, Moers, Monastery, Narrow-gauge railway, Netherlands, Niers, North Rhine-Westphalia, Peace of Utrecht, Population, Pour le Mérite, Protestantism, Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Provinces of the Netherlands, Prussia, Prussian Guelders, Rail transport, Rees, Germany, Refectory, Regierungsbezirk, Rheinberg, Rhine, Rhine Province, Rhineland, Roer (department), Schloss Haag, Secularization, Sister city, Sonsbeck, Spain, Spanish Netherlands, Spear, States of Germany, Straelen, Street painting, Suzie Kerstgens, Teisterbant, Thomas Struth, Town privileges, Upper Guelders, Venlo, War of the Spanish Succession, Wassenberg, Weeze Airport, Whitsun, Windmill, World War I, World War II, Xenia Seeberg.