Bladel
Encyclopedia
Bladel is a municipality
and a town in the southern Netherlands
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Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
and a town in the southern Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
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Notable people
- Roy BeerensRoy BeerensRoy Beerens is a professional footballer who currently plays as a striker for Dutch Eredivisie team AZ. Beerens is known for his quick dribbling and fast sprints....
(born 1987), Dutch footballer - Corky de GraauwCorky de GraauwCornell de Graauw is a former Dutch ice hockey player. He was born in Bladel.De Graauw played ten games over the two seasons between 1968 and 1970 with the Kitchener Rangers...
(born 1951), Dutch ice hockey player - Jan Renier SniedersJan Renier SniedersJan Renier Snieders , a brother of August Snieders, was a Flemish writer. He studied medicine in Leuven, and in 1838 he settled as a physician in Turnhout, where he did much to promote literature and for which reason he founded the society De Dageraad...
(1812-1888), Flemish writer - August SniedersAugust SniedersAugust Snieders was a Flemish journalist and writer. He started his career in's-Hertogenbosch, but later moved to Antwerp. In 1845, he became editor of the newspaper Het Handelsblad, of which he was head editor from 1849 until 1899...
(1825-1904), Flemish writer and journalist