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See also:NIJMWEGEN, NIMEGUEN, NYMEGEN Or NIMWEGEN, a See also:town in the See also:province of See also:Gelderland, See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, on the See also:left See also:bank of the Waal, 242 M. by See also:rail E. by S. of See also:Tiel. It has See also:regular steamboat communication with See also:Rotterdam, See also:Cologne and See also:Arnhem, and See also:steam-tramways connect it with the popular resorts of Neerbosch, Beek and See also:Berg-en-Dal in the vicinity. Pop. (1904) 49,342. Nijmwegen is very prettily situated on the slopes of five See also:low hills rising from the See also:river-See also:side. It stands up with a boldness quite unusual in a Dutch town, and steps are even necessary to See also:lead to the higher portions of the town. In 1877–1884 the old town walls were demolished, a See also:promenade and gardens taking their See also:place. and since then a new See also:quarter has grown up on the See also:south side with a See also:fine open place called the See also:Emperor See also:Charles's See also:Plain. On the See also:east of the town is the beautiful See also:park called the Valkhof, which marks the site of the old See also:palace of the Carolingian emperors. The palace was still inhabitable in 1787, but was ruined by the Fregch See also:bombardment of 1794, and only two portions of it remain. These are a See also:part of the See also:choir of the 12th-See also:century palaceehurch, and a sixteen-sided baptistry originally consecrated by See also:Pope See also:Leo III. in 799 and rebuilt in the 12th or 13th century. See also:Close by is the lofty See also:tower of the See also:Belvedere, dating from 1646. The Groote Kerk of St See also:Stephen forms with its tall square tower one of the most striking features in the See also:general views of the town. Originally built about 1272, it See also:dates in its See also:present See also:condition mainly from the 15th and 16th centuries. In the choir is the fine See also:monument of See also:Catherine of See also:Bourbon (d. 1469), wife of See also:Adolphus of See also:Egmont, See also:duke of Gelderland, with a See also:brass of the duchess, and the heraldic achievements of the See also:house of Bourbon. There is also a fine See also:organ. The interesting See also:Renaissance town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall was built in 1554 (restored in 1879). It is adorned with the See also:effigies of See also:kings and emperors who were once benefactors of Nijmwegen. Inside are to be found some fine See also:wood-See also:carving, tapestries, pictures and a cumbrous safe in which the town charters were so jealously preserved that the See also:garrison used to be called out and the See also:city See also:gates closed whenever they were consulted. There is also an interesting museum of antiquities. Other buildings of See also:note are the See also:theatre (1839), the See also:Protestant See also:hospital, the See also:Roman See also:Catholic or Canisius hospital (1866), and the old weigh-house arid Flesher's Hall, probably built in 1612 and restored in 1885. Between 1656 and 1678 Nijmwegen was the seat of a university. See also:Beer, Prussian See also:blue, See also:leather, See also:tin, pottery, cigars, and See also:gold and See also:silver See also:work are the See also:chief See also:industrial products, and there is a considerable See also:trade by rail and river.
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