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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Oldenzaal
Haaksbergen is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel, in the Twente region.
Olst-Wijhe is a municipality in the province of Overijssel, eastern Netherlands.
Zwartewaterland is a municipality in the province Overijssel in the eastern Netherlands.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Oldenzaal   (1208 words)

  
 Overijssel polderboards (The Netherlands)
Flag: 5 wavy stripes diagonally from top fly, of green, blue, etc, with in the canton two illuminated and opened castles of 1/5 flagheight.
Flag: nine wavy stripes of yellow and blue, proportioned 9:3:5:3:5:3:5:3:9, with in top hoist over the first five stripes the shield of the coat of arms.
Flag: yellow, with 4 blue 4x waved stripes, in the upper hoist the arms, viz: "Quarterly: I. gules a cross argent; II.
www.fotw.net /Flags/nl~pb-ov.html   (498 words)

  
  Overijssel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Overijssel is bordered by Germany to the east, the Achterhoek region of Gelderland to the south, the Veluwe region of Gelderland and Flevoland to the west, and Friesland and the former moors of Drenthe to the north.
Overijssel is comprised of three regions: Kop van Overijssel in the northwest, Salland in the centre of the province, and Twente in the east.
The highest point in Overijssel is the summit of the Tankenberg (85 m), a hill in the municipality of Losser.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Overijssel   (568 words)

  
 Flag of the Netherlands
The national flag of the Netherlands, with its three equal horizontal bands coloured red (top), white and blue, was not the country's first flag.
It is not known when this flag was unfurled for the first time, but it can be seen in illustrations dating from the earliest days of the Eighty Years' War, the Dutch war of independence.
This flag had a life as short as that of the Batavian Republic for which it was created.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fl/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.html   (805 words)

  
 Overijssel polderboards (The Netherlands)
Flag: 5 wavy stripes diagonally from top fly, of green, blue, etc, with in the canton two illuminated and opened castles of 1/5 flagheight.
Flag: nine wavy stripes of yellow and blue, proportioned 9:3:5:3:5:3:5:3:9, with in top hoist over the first five stripes the shield of the coat of arms.
Flag: yellow, with 4 blue 4x waved stripes, in the upper hoist the arms, viz: "Quarterly: I. gules a cross argent; II.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/nl~pb-ov.html   (471 words)

  
 Overijssel
Enschede is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel, in the Twente region.
Hengelo is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel.
It borders the Overijssel municipalities of Zwolle to the north, Raalte to the north and east and Deventer to the south; and the Gelderland municipalities of Voorst, Epe and Heerde to the west.
www.shortopedia.com /O/V/Overijssel   (646 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Delden
Delden is a city in the province of Overijssel and, since 2001, in the municipality of Hof van Twente.
Zutphen (old alternate spelling: Zutfen) is a municipality and a town in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands on the right bank of the IJssel at the influx of the Berkel, and a junction station 29 km by rail N.N.E. of Arnhem.
Overijssel geography stubs The modern day Netherlands are divided into twelve provinces (provincies in Dutch), listed below with their capital city: Map of the Netherlands, with provinces and capital cities See also the ranked list of Dutch provinces // Structure A Dutch province represents the administrative layer in between the national government and the...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Delden   (526 words)

  
 Overijssel.nl - Information in English
Overijssel is governed from the provincial capital Zwolle.
The amalgamation of Bathmen with the neighbouring municipality was the last of the major amalgation-projects in the province en has recently led in the year 2005 to the forming of the new and larger town of Deventer.
Overijssel and parts of Gelderland and Friesland became the ‘Department of the Old IJssel’.
provincie.overijssel.nl /headerbalk/international_0/english   (497 words)

  
 Overijssel Bed and Breakfast - Overijssel Logies en ontbijt - bedandbreakfast bbnl nl - Bed and Breakfast the ...
Regions of Overijssel: Kop van Overijssel, Twente (the eastern part of the province), Salland, National Park Weeribben (in the north west part of the province), Holterberg, Vechtdal.
Overijssel is a province of the Netherlands located in the central eastern part of the Netherlands with a great variety like the picturesque town of Giethoorn with small canals instead of streets or the hanseatic towns like Kampen, Zwolle or Deventer with its boekenmarkt or deventer op stelten, the dickens festijn and the historic buildings.
Overijssel borders Germany in the east and the IJsselmeer in the west.
bedandbreakfast.bbnl.nl /overijssel.html   (1136 words)

  
 Provincial Flags of the Netherlands   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The flag, adopted 17 February 1950, reflects this: Green and white are the city's colours, placed in the centre for the central role of the capital.
The province of Overijssel (meaning "on the other side of the IJssel river") in the east of the Netherlands was part of Utrecht until in 1528 the Spanish King Charles V, as count of Holland, inherited the area.
The flag, dating from 1 January 1986, symbolizes land, made from the sea: the colours stand for land, wheat and sky and the wavy lines for the sea.
www.ozoutback.com.au /worldpics/Europe/Netherlands/flags.html   (917 words)

  
 North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)
The state flag is the same with the arms in the middle.
The Landesflagge (civil flag) is a tricolour of green-white-red in the proportions 3:5.
The 1945 flag of Westphalia differed from the flag of the same province adopted in 1882 and still used during the Republic of Weimar: the flag had the coat of arms of the province in the canton.
www.hampshireflags.co.uk /world-flags/allflags/de-nw.html   (1025 words)

  
 Overijssel.nl - Information in English
Overijssel is governed from the provincial capital Zwolle.
The amalgamation of Bathmen with the neighbouring municipality was the last of the major amalgation-projects in the province en has recently led in the year 2005 to the forming of the new and larger town of Deventer.
Overijssel and parts of Gelderland and Friesland became the ‘Department of the Old IJssel’.
www.overijssel.nl /headerbalk/international_0/english   (497 words)

  
 Lower Saxony (Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A combination of the colours of the flags of all four constituent territories (red, white, blue, yellow) was also not feasible, so the final compromise was to use the German national flag (fl-red-gold) with the Lower Saxony coat-of-arms on it.
The fl-red-gold national flag with the Lower Saxon arms (a white saxon horse on a red field) with a narrow fl border, overlapping the fl and gold stripes and slightly offset towards hoist.
The Land's flag has a proportion of 2:3; the coat-of-arms has a height of 2/3rds of the flag's height [hoist]; the centre of the coat-of-arms is placed 14/30ths of the flag's length away from the hoist (according to the above mentioned pattern).
fotw.vexillum.com /flags/de-ni.html   (654 words)

  
 flag of Wanneperveen (Netherlands) flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de   (Site not responding. Last check: )
flag of Wanneperveen (Netherlands) flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de
Wanneperveen is a former municipality in Overijssel province; the first flag was probably used on the occasion of Queen Wilhelmina's 50 years reigning jubilee.
It consists of the Overijssel provincial flag (at that time: horizontal red - yellow - blue), with in the canron the municipal arms.
www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/nl-ov_wv.html   (322 words)

  
 Netherlands   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The flag of the Netherlands consists of three equal sized horizontal stripes - the top stripe is red; the middle one white; and the bottom stripe is blue.
The Netherlands flag is nicknamed the 'Prince's Flag' and was based on the heraldic colors (coat of arms) of Prince William of Orange, who led the campaign for independence against Spanish rule in 1568.
The flag was banned for a short period at the turn of the 19th century after France occupied the Netherlands.
www.vdiest.nl /Europa/Netherlands/netherlands.htm   (854 words)

  
 Overijssel Province (The Netherlands)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Overijssel (or "on the other side of the IJssel river") was part of Utrecht until 1528.
On that occasion a lot of municipalities paraded in front of HM with their flags, which consisted of the provincial flag with the municipal CoA in the canton (or something...).
Those municipal flags can only be considered as 'curiosities', while the status of the provincial flags is not quite clear.
flagspot.net /flags/nl-ov.html   (148 words)

  
 Euroseek.com - Search Results
In 1528 Charles V, as count of Holland, inherited the area.
Description:The waterschap is a river board for the eastern part of Overijssel.
Description:This small village is situated in the beautiful scenery of hospitable Twente in
www.euroseek.net /query?iflang=uk&query=Overijssel&domain=world&lang=world   (155 words)

  
 Dictionary of Vexillology: W (Waft [Weft] - Wyn)
A term, how obsolete, for a flag tied in a knot and displayed at sea as a signal of some emergency (see also ‘flag of distress’).
A system of signalling, now obsolete, in which a single flag was waved according to an established code (see also ‘Morse code signalling with flags’ and ‘semaphore’).
1) On flags, two semi-circular crossed branches of varying types of intertwined or plain foliage with or without flowers, that are tied with a ribbon at their crossing point but generally open at the top (see also ‘garland’).
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/vxt-dv-w.html   (861 words)

  
 Name That Flag Winners
The flag of "Sambirskiy Rayon" (Sambir district in Lviv oblast of Ukraine).
The flag of Osecany (Pribram okres) Czech Republic.
The flag of the Ambt Delden, Overijssel province, Netherlands.
www.futcher.com /nameflag/flagwinr.html   (534 words)

  
 Dalfsen (Netherlands)
Adopted 21 Jul 1961 - the flag is identical to the CoA
Stefan Lambrechts spotted on the website of the municipality of Dalfsen in Overijssel province a flag for the "woonkern" (settlement) of Hoonhorst: blue with along the hoist a white capital H and in flagcenter white letters "oonhorst".
I thought that it was possibly a commercial flag and wrote to the municipality for confirmation.
www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/nl-ov-ds.html   (422 words)

  
 Kampen (Netherlands)
Kampen is a merger between the former municipalities of Kampen and IJsselmuiden on 1 Jan 2001, the flag above is provisional and the same as the flag of the former municipality of Kampen.
Kampen is an old city at the mouth of the IJssel river in Overijssel province in the Netherlands.
A Kamper flag of blue with a yellow cross occurs in Hesman's flagchart of 1708.
flagspot.net /flags/nl-ov-kp.html   (280 words)

  
 Amazon.com: overijssel   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kijk op het groene Overijssel by Sietzo Dijkhuizen (Unknown Binding - 1983)
Nederlandse monumenten in beeld, Overijssel, Gelderland, Utrecht by A. G Schulte (Unknown Binding - 1975)
Overijssel (Kijk op Nederland) (Unknown Binding - 1976)
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=aps&keywords=overijssel&page=1   (272 words)

  
 Holland from 1581 - 1697 The history of the Lowlands during the 80 years war with Spain, The Republic of the Seven ...
In 1572 the orange-white-blue flag was first mentioned when the town of Den Briel was liberated.
Around 1630 more flags with a red stripe were used, and after 1660 the version with the orange stripe became very rare.
During the time of Johan de Witt (see the story later) the republicans became more and more powerful and they introduced the red instead of the orange stripe in the flag, probably because the flag of Dordrecht (the birth-city of Johan de Witt and the most powerful city at that time) was red-white-red.
www.geerts.com /holland/holland-4.htm   (4195 words)

  
 Netherlands - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
The Netherlands is divided into twelve administrative regions, called provinces, each under a Governor, who is called Commissaris van de Koningin (Commissionair of the Queen).
Overijssel - east central, south of Drenthe; capital Zwolle
Gelderland - east central, south of Overijssel; capital Arnhem
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/n/e/t/Netherlands.html   (3852 words)

  
 Naval Officers   (Site not responding. Last check: )
One question that would be nice to answer is why there would be a Dunkirk flag at the stern of a ship in the background of an Abraham van der Hulst portrait.
It is derived from the Hapsburg Spanish flag.
In 1630, he distinguished himself on the Overijssel against a superior force of 3 Dunkirkers, and was awarded a golden chain.
kentishknock.com /officers1.shtml   (9221 words)

  
 PUPUTAN BADUNG
They took the ship, the cargo, the crew and the passengers as their pefsgnal pro, perty, naturally sharing with those who Actually performed the act of salvage or rescue, but entertaining no doubts at all regarding the sanctity of the deed.
The sorry saga of the Overijssel began on July 19, 1841, when the vessel, on its maiden voyage from Plymouth to Surabaya with a valuable cargo of machinery, hit the Kuta reef and was promptly plundered.
Subsequent Dutch outrage served in part to cloak humiliation that a large and heavily armed frigate was wrecked by reason of a flagrant navigational error.
www.balivision.com /dpsmun/puputanbadung.htm   (1985 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Where the flag with the Brekken duck flies you will encounter recreation of the highest quality.
The charter location is ideal: between the Frisian and Overijssel lake area and the IJsselmeer.
You can go to this workplace recognized by the ANWB Royal Dutch Touring Club for all forms of technical maintenance to your motor or sailing yacht.
www.brekken.nl /uk   (130 words)

  
 Coat-of-Arms (Westphalia, Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Note that opposed to the horse of Westphalia which is rearing (or forcene, see Pascal Vagnat's blazon; German steigend), the horse of Lower Saxony is jumping (German springend), like the one of Brunswick [and Hanover].
The flags of the Kingdom of Hanover did have the White Horse on a red field too.
The badges of some other British regiments had a white horse, that was not derived from Hanover, but may have come from the same original source referred to by Jarig Bakker.
fotw.vexillum.com /flags/de-nw-w).html   (1166 words)

  
 Festivals of Western Europe: Festivals: 7. Festivals of the Netherlands
The framework of the Palmpaas is a hoop, attached to a stick that is between eighteen and fifty-four inches long.
The hoop is covered with boxwood and adorned with colored paper flags, egg shells, sugar rings, oranges, raisins, figs, chocolate eggs and small cakes.
An empty bottle is hung from either arm of the structure, which is decorated at the top with the Dutch flag, a fresh green May branch and a placard bearing the word Kallemooi.
www.sacred-texts.com /etc/fwe/fwe09.htm   (7131 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of Overijssel, ToC
Geschiedenis Overijssel, from Historisch Centrum Overijssel, in Dutch
Landdag van Overijssel, from R. Fruin, Staatsinstellingen in Nederland, in Dutch
Coat of Arms of Overijssel Province, from FOTW
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/lowcountries/xoverijssel.html   (62 words)

  
 Overijssel In Progress
In order to gain a better understanding of the emerging trends and demands of the regional labour market, there is a need for objective and comprehensive information that will inform labour market policy and practice.
Therefore in October 2003, the Province of Overijssel embarked on a process of quantitative and qualitative analyses of the local labour market.
The first report was published in October 2003 (RATIO: Regional Labour Market Information System Overijssel) and set out the context for the RATIO in PROGRESS-project (Province Overijssel Generates Regional Employment Strategies).
www.overijssel-in-progress.nl /8.progress&lng=en   (263 words)

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