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 | | Maastricht, also spelled Maestricht, (population 122,000) is the oldest city of the Netherlands, and capital of the province of Limburg. |
 | | Maastricht has a railway connection to Liege (city), Belgium, as well as northward to Eindhoven and further. |
 | | When the southern provinces sought independence from the North to form Belgium in 1830, the garrison in Maastricht remained loyal to the Dutch king and in 1839 the city and the eastern part of Limburg, despite being geographically closer to Belgium, were permanently added to the Netherlands. |
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